DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON DOCUMENT INCEPTION DATE

• US 20110029542A1
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: HENZINGER, Monika, HAAHR, Paul, CUTTS, Matt, LAWRENCE, Steve, TONG, Simon, DEAN, Jeffrey, PFLEGER, Karl
• Granted Patent: US 8,521,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A system may determine a document inception date associated with a document, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining a document inception date associated with a document;

generating a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date; and

ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.

2-26. -26. (canceled)