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Criteria-specific authority ranking

  • US 8,161,040 B2
  • Filed: 04/30/2008
  • Issued: 04/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of ranking a plurality of linkable documents, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) analyzing each document with respect to at least one criterion comprising at least one of a readability of the document determined with regard to a user'"'"'s age or the presence of unsafe or inappropriate content in the document, and assigning an intrinsic score to each document based on the analysis, the intrinsic score measuring at least one intrinsic property of the respective document and not its relations to other documents;

    (b) identifying links between the documents; and

    (c) using a processor, generating a ranking score for each document based at least in part on the intrinsic scores of nodes linked therewith.

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