Scoring documents in a linked database
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1. A method performed by a computer, the method comprising:
- identifying, by the computer, a legal document;
identifying, by the computer, other legal documents that cite the identified legal document;
generating, by the computer, a score for the identified legal document based on a summation of respective values corresponding to the other legal documents, where the respective value, corresponding to one of the other legal documents, includes a score associated with the one of the other legal documents divided by a total number of citations, to legal documents, in the one of the other legal documents; and
storing, by the computer, the generated score.
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Abstract
A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the performance of search engine results for hypermedia databases, such as the world wide web, whose documents have a large variation in quality.
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1. A method performed by a computer, the method comprising:
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identifying, by the computer, a legal document; identifying, by the computer, other legal documents that cite the identified legal document; generating, by the computer, a score for the identified legal document based on a summation of respective values corresponding to the other legal documents, where the respective value, corresponding to one of the other legal documents, includes a score associated with the one of the other legal documents divided by a total number of citations, to legal documents, in the one of the other legal documents; and storing, by the computer, the generated score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method performed by a computer, the method comprising:
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selecting, by the computer, a patent document; identifying, by the computer, other patent documents that cite the selected patent document; generating, by the computer, a score for the selected patent document based on a summation of respective values corresponding to the other patent documents, where the respective value, corresponding to one of the other patent documents, includes a score associated with the one of the other patent documents divided by a total number of citations, to patent documents, in the one of the other patent documents; and storing, by the computer, the generated score. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method performed by a computer, the method comprising:
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selecting a court case; identifying other court cases that cite the selected court case; generating a score for the selected court case based on a summation of respective values corresponding to the other court cases, where the respective value, corresponding to one of the other court cases, includes a score associated with the one of the other court cases divided by a total number of citations, to court cases, in the one of the other court cases; and storing the generated score. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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