RELEVANCY RANKING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME
First Claim
1. A relevancy ranking information retrieval system comprising:
- a computing device configured to receive at least one search hit, extracting and scoring attributes from said search hits;
assigning a relevancy rank for each said search hit based upon said attribute scores; and
sorting said search hits based upon said relevancy rank.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a system and method of using the same for a relevancy ranking information retrieval system. In an embodiment, the system is configured for ranking hits in text string searching. A search query for one or more hits relevant to an investigation is received from, as an example and not a limitation, a user. A set of attributes and features of each attribute are extracted related to metadata for each of the one or more hits. A score of each attribute is calculated based on the metadata features, although not limited to ‘metadata’ information as typically defined in digital forensics. Further, weights are assigned to each of the one or more attribute features and a relevancy rank is generated for each of the one or more hits based on assigned weights and the attribute score by using a predefined relevancy-ranking algorithm that may be adjusted by user input.
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20 Claims
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1. A relevancy ranking information retrieval system comprising:
a computing device configured to receive at least one search hit, extracting and scoring attributes from said search hits;
assigning a relevancy rank for each said search hit based upon said attribute scores; and
sorting said search hits based upon said relevancy rank.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A relevancy ranking method comprising:
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a first step of receiving at least one search hit; a second step of extracting search hit attributes; a third step of scoring search hit attributes; a fourth step of assigning a relevancy rank for each said search hit based upon said attribute scores; and a fifth step of sorting said search hits based upon said relevancy rank. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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