CONTENT RANK

• US 20080168045A1
• Filed: 01/10/2007
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Yue, Su, Philip Ti-Fei, Burns, Eric L., Suponau, Dzmitry, Kaplanian, Harry, Buschman, Jon Michael, Girotto, Jay R., Johnson-Morris, Zarah
• Application Number:
  US11/621,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20080168045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a content rank that includes at least one quantitative measurement to ascertain the importance of a literary work and/or media. An interface component can receive data related to a query. A rank component can employ a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates querying data, comprising:

an interface component that receives data related to querying content; and

a rank component that employs a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.

2. The system of claim 1, the content relates to at least one of a book, a magazine, a newspaper, an article, a periodical, a comic book, a literary work, a written work, a newspaper article, a magazine article, a newspaper article, a portion of literature, a poem, a manual, a portion of data associated with literature, a portion of media, a portion of music, a movie, a portion of a movie, a video, a portion of video, and a portion of data that is queried.

3. The system of claim 1, the quantitative measurement is at least one of a number of web pages that mention the content, a measured importance of web pages that mention the content, a number of library holdings for the content, a library circulation number for the content, sales data for the content, a peer group review of the content, and a peer group rating for the content.

4. The system of claim 3, the quantitative measurement is at least one of a popularity determination correlating to a sect of users, a number of residual works, a number of related works, a number of unique institutional holdings, a number of reviews, a number of creative entity holdings, a creative entity circulation number, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity sales statistics, a creative entity mentioned in book indices, a relationship with a particular creative entity, a newsgroup opinion, a forum opinion, and an incoming link to content.

5. The system of claim 4, the creative entity is a person associated with developing the content.

6. The system of claim 5, the creative entity is at least one of an author, a composer, a director, a producer, an actor, an actress, a journalist, a poet, a screen-writer, a special effects artist, an artist, a librarian, a blogger, and a photographer.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a dynamic component that provides a query result.

8. The system of claim 7, the dynamic component provides the query result utilizing at least a portion of the content rank.

9. The system of claim 8, the content rank is created independent of the query result.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising a plurality of query results provided by the content rank and the hyperlink-based ranking technique.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a query result including the content rank to enable objective evaluation of such query result.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising an update component that enables continuous and seamless upgrading of at least one quantitative measurement utilized to create the content rank.

13. The system of claim 12, the update component provides at least one of a disparate version of a quantitative measurement and a replacement quantitative measurement.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a data collection engine that gathers data associated with at least one quantitative measurement related to content.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising an organizational component that organizes data collected by the data collection engine, the data is normalized to create the content rank.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a hook component that allows at least one search component to latch into the rank component to enable access to the generated content rank.

17. A computer-implemented method that facilitates providing query results in an objective manner, comprising:

receiving query data related to a portion of content; and

creating a content rank based on a quantitative measurement for an objective evaluation of content.

18. The method of claim 17, the content relates to at least one of a book, a magazine, a newspaper, an article, a periodical, a comic book, a literary work, a written work, a newspaper article, a magazine article, a newspaper article, a portion of literature, a poem, a manual, a portion of data associated with literature, a portion of media, a portion of music, a movie, a portion of a movie, a video, a portion of video, and a portion of data that is queried.

19. The method of claim 17, the quantitative measurement is at least one of a number of web pages that mention the content, a measured importance of web pages that mention the content, a number of library holdings for the content, a library circulation number for the content, sales data for the content, a peer group review of the content, a peer group rating for the content, a popularity determination correlating to a sect of users, a number of residual works, a number of related works, a number of unique institutional holdings, a number of reviews, a number of creative entity holdings, a creative entity circulation number, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity sales statistics, a creative entity mentioned in book indices, a relationship with a particular creative entity, a newsgroup opinion, a forum opinion, and an incoming link to content.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates querying data, comprising:

means for receiving data related to querying content; and

means for employing a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.