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Techniques for finding related hyperlinked documents using link-based analysis

  • US 7,634,716 B1
  • Filed: 12/30/2003
  • Issued: 12/15/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of generating lists of related documents performed by a computer system, the method comprising:

  • providing, by a processor of the computer system, a first set of documents that link to a particular document and a second set of documents that are pointed to by forward links in the documents of the first set;

    assigning, by the processor, values to the forward links in the documents in the first set;

    generating, by the processor, scores for the documents in the second set based on the assigned values of the forward links;

    generating, by the processor, a first list of documents that are related to the particular document by selecting a subset of documents from the second set based on the generated scores;

    generating, by the processor, a second list of related documents for at least one of the documents in the first list; and

    removing, by the processor, the at least one of the documents from the first list if the particular document is not in the second list.

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