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METHOD FOR A NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE BASED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL AND RANKING UTILIZING EXTRACTED DOCUMENT METADATA AND CONTENT

  • US 20080183691A1
  • Filed: 01/30/2007
  • Published: 07/31/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for managing document retrieval and ranking from a system, wherein the method comprises:

  • determining explicit metadata of a retrieved document;

    extracting intrinsic metadata from inside content of the retrieved document;

    determining stored information related to the retrieved document from a document system database;

    obtaining information related to the retrieved document from a series of search engines;

    wherein the explicit metadata, intrinsic metadata, stored information, and search engine information comprise document information;

    constructing static or dynamic user-document relationship rules based on input from a user or an administrator;

    establishing a knowledge of a user-document relationship by relating document information to the user'"'"'s information on the document system database;

    generating user-document relationships based on the knowledge of a user-document relationship and the static or dynamic user-document relationship rules;

    constructing static or dynamic ranking rules based on input from the user or the administrator;

    calculating a relevance or ranking score for each of the retrieved documents based on the explicit metadata, intrinsic metadata, and knowledge of user-document relationship, and the static or dynamic ranking rules;

    entering a query by a user into the system with a client user module;

    constructing a system query by the system based on said entering;

    retrieving information about the user by the system;

    reconstructing the system query with the user information by the system;

    sending the reconstructed system query from the client user module to an application server by the system;

    retrieving a document in response to the reconstructed system query by the application server; and

    ranking the retrieved document by the application server.

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