Scoring documents in a database
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1. A computer-readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computer, the computer-readable medium comprising:
- one or more instructions to identify documents in a network;
one or more instructions to assign initial scores to the documents, where the initial score assigned to one of the documents that has been previously bookmarked by a user is higher than the initial score assigned to another one of the documents that has not been previously bookmarked by the user;
one or more instructions to determine a score for a particular one of the documents based on the initial scores assigned to the documents that point to the particular one of the documents; and
one or more instructions to store the score for the particular one of the documents.
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Abstract
A method may include identifying a group of documents; identifying linking documents that include links to the identified documents; assigning a measure of importance to one or more of the linking documents; and generating a score for each of the identified documents based on the measure of importance assigned to at least one of the linking documents that includes a link to the identified document.
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1. A computer-readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computer, the computer-readable medium comprising:
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one or more instructions to identify documents in a network; one or more instructions to assign initial scores to the documents, where the initial score assigned to one of the documents that has been previously bookmarked by a user is higher than the initial score assigned to another one of the documents that has not been previously bookmarked by the user; one or more instructions to determine a score for a particular one of the documents based on the initial scores assigned to the documents that point to the particular one of the documents; and one or more instructions to store the score for the particular one of the documents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A computer-readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computer, the computer-readable medium comprising:
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one or more instructions to identify documents in a network; one or more instructions to assign initial scores to the documents, where the initial score assigned to one of the documents that corresponds to a home page of a user is higher than the initial score assigned to another one of the documents that does not correspond to the home page of the user; one or more instructions to determine a score for a particular one of the documents based on the initial scores assigned to the documents that point to the particular one of the documents; and one or more instructions to store the score for the particular one of the documents. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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7. A computer, comprising:
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means for assigning initial scores to a plurality of documents, where the initial score assigned to one of the documents, that has been previously added to a list of bookmarks by a user, is higher than the initial score assigned to another one of the documents, that has not been previously added to the list of bookmarks by the user; means for calculating a score for a particular one of the documents based on the initial scores assigned to the documents that contain a link pointing to the particular one of the documents; and means for storing the score for the particular one of the documents. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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10. A computer, comprising:
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means for assigning initial scores to a plurality of documents, where the initial score assigned to one of the documents that corresponds to a home page of a user is higher than the initial score assigned to another one of the documents that does not correspond to the home page of the user; means for calculating a score for a particular one of the documents based on the initial scores assigned to the documents that contain a link pointing to the particular one of the documents; and means for storing the score for the particular one of the documents. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. A computer-readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computer, the computer-readable medium comprising:
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one or more instructions to identify a plurality of linked documents; one or more instructions to identify a plurality of linking documents, where each of the linking documents contains a link pointing to one of the linked documents; one or more instructions to assign initial scores to the linking documents, where the initial score assigned to one of the linking documents associated with a user is higher than the initial score assigned to another one of the documents that is not associated with the user; one or more instructions to generate a score for a particular one of the linked documents based on the initial scores of one or more of the linking documents that contain a link pointing to the particular one of the linked documents; and one or more instructions to store the score for the particular one of the linked documents. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. A computer-readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computer, the computer-readable medium comprising:
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one or more instructions to identify documents in a network; one or more instructions to score the identified documents based on a model of a surfer who is likely to make random jumps from certain ones of the identified documents and to follow forward links from certain other ones of the identified documents; and one or more instructions to store the scores for the identified documents. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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