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System for user driven ranking of web pages

  • US 7,873,623 B1
  • Filed: 04/13/2010
  • Issued: 01/18/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2009
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method of ranking a plurality of linked documents, comprising:

  • observing, at computer-based platforms of a system, link selections for referred documents from referring documents and counting such selections;

    storing, at storage locations associated with one or more of the computer-based platforms of the system, counts of the link selections; and

    processing, at various ones of the computer-based platforms of the system, the counts of the link selections to obtain page ranks (PR) for the referred documents,whereinthe system comprises one of;

    a distributed network, an individual computer system, a centralized network of computer systems communicatively coupled to one another through a local network, or a hybrid system consisting of combinations of any of the foregoing;

    the storage locations are arranged within the system such that a time to find any one storage location is a logarithmic function of a size of the system; and

    the page ranks are determined according to a discrete probability distribution defined by

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