Systems and methods for scoring documents

• US 8,799,107 B1
• Filed: 09/30/2004
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Dean, Jeffrey A., Baptist, Lauren, Davies, Scott, Guha, Angshuman, O'Sullivan, Joseph Kieran, Smith, Adam M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Misiaszek, Michael
• Application Number:
  US10/953,491
• Time in Patent Office: 3,596 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705 261- 272
• US Class Current: 705/26.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

A system generates a score for a document based on best seller list information relating to the document, circulation information relating to the document, publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, author sales information relating to an author associated with the document, user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, and/or a link-based score of a web document relating to the document.

Claims

1. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

estimating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a number of copies of a book that have been sold;

determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a size of a geographic region in which the copies of the book have been sold;

scoring, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a web document that corresponds to the book based on;

the number of copies of the book that have been sold, and

the size of the geographic region in which the copies of the book have been sold; and

providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the scored web document in a list of scored web documents.

2. The method of claim 1, where the scoring the web document comprises:

assigning a higher score to the web document than a score assigned to another document when the number of copies of the book, corresponding to the web document, that have been sold is greater than a number of copies of a book, corresponding to the other document, that have been sold.

3. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a publisher associated with a document;

determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a number of documents that the publisher has sold;

identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a size of a geographic region in which the publisher has sold the documents;

scoring, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the document based on;

the number of documents that the publisher has sold, and

the size of the geographic region in which the publisher has sold the documents; and

providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the scored document in a list of scored documents.

4. The method of claim 3, where scoring the document comprises:

assigning a higher score to the document than a score assigned to another document when the number of documents that the publisher has sold is greater than a number of documents sold by a publisher associated with the other document.

5. The method of claim 3, where scoring the document comprises:

assigning a score to the document based on a country in which the publisher has sold the documents.

6. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, an author associated with a particular document;

determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a number of documents that the author has sold,

where the documents include at least one document that is different than the particular document;

identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, geographic regions in which the author has sold the documents;

assigning, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a score to the particular document based on;

the number of documents that the author has sold, and

the geographic regions in which the author has sold the documents,

the score increasing as the number of documents that the author has sold increases; and

providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the scored particular document in a list of scored documents.

7. The method of claim 6, where the determining a number of documents that the author has sold comprises:

determining whether the author has appeared in a best seller list; and

where assigning the score to the particular document comprises;

assigning a score to the particular document based on whether the author has appeared in a best seller list.

8. The method of claim 6, where the assigning the score to the particular document comprises:

assigning a higher score to the particular document than a score assigned to another document when the number of documents that the author has sold is greater than a number of documents sold by an author associated with the other document.

9. The method of claim 6, where the assigning the score to the particular document comprises:

assigning a score to the particular document based on a country in which the author has sold the documents.

10. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

generating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a first score based on one of;

best seller list information relating to a document,

circulation information relating to the document,

publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document,

author sales information relating to an author associated with the document,

user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, or

a link-based score of a web document relating to the document;

generating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a second score based on user location information relating to locations of the users that access the document;

assigning, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a score to the document based on the first score and the second score; and

providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, the scored document in a list of scored documents.

11. The method of claim 10, where the best seller list information relates to whether the document has appeared in a best seller list;

and

where the generating a first score comprises;

generating the first score based on whether the document has appeared in a best seller list.

12. The method of claim 10, where the circulation information relates to a number of copies of the document that have been sold;

and

where the generating a first score comprises;

generating the first score based on the number of copies of the document that have been sold.

13. The method of claim 10, where the publisher sales information relates to a number of documents that the publisher has sold;

and

where the generating a first score comprises;

generating the first score based on the number of documents that the publisher has sold.

14. The method of claim 10, where the author sales information relates to a number of documents that the author has sold;

and

where the generating a first score comprises;

generating the first score based on the number of documents that the author has sold.

15. The method of claim 10, where the user behavior information relates to at least one of a number of times that the document was accessed by users or an amount of time that the users spent accessing the document;

and

where the generating a first score comprises;

generating the first score based on the at least one of the number of times that the document was accessed by users or the amount of time that the users spent accessing the document.

16. The method of claim 10, where the web document relating to the document corresponds to a publisher or author associated with the document;

and

where the generating a first score comprises;

generating the first score based on a link-based score associated with the web document.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

identifying a name of the publisher or author; and

searching a corpus of web documents based on the identified name to locate the web document that corresponds to the publisher or author.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

identifying a title of the document; and

searching a corpus of web documents based on the identified title to locate the web document relating to the document.

19. A system comprising:

a memory to store a document; and

a processor to;

generate a score for the document based on;

one or more of;

best seller list information relating to the document,

circulation information relating to the document,

publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, or

author sales information relating to an author associated with the document,

one or more of;

user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, or

a link-based score of a web document relating to the document, and

information associated with locations of users that access the document; and

provide, for presentation, the document in a list of documents based on the score.

22. The system of claim 19, where the best seller list information relates to whether the document has appeared in a best seller list,

the circulation information relates to a number of copies of the document that has been sold,

the publisher sales information relates to a number of documents that the publisher has sold, and

the author sales information relates to a number of documents that the author has sold.

23. The system of claim 19, where the user behavior information relates to at least one of a number of times that the document was accessed by users or an amount of time that the users spent accessing the document, and where the web document relating to the document corresponds to a publisher or author associated with the document.

20. A computer-readable memory device storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

generate a score for a document based on first information, second information, and third information,

the first information including one or more of;

best seller list information relating to the document,

circulation information relating to the document,

publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, or

author sales information relating to an author associated with the document,

the second information including one or more of;

the best seller information,

the circulation information,

the publisher sales information,

the author sales information,

user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, or

a link-based score of a web document relating to the document,

where the first information is different than the second information, and

the third information including information associated with locations of the users that access the document; and

output the document based on the score.

24. The computer-readable memory device of claim 20, where the best seller list information relates to whether the document has appeared in a best seller list,

the circulation information relates to a number of copies of the document that has been sold,

the publisher sales information relates to a number of documents that the publisher has sold, and

the author sales information relates to a number of documents that the author has sold.

25. The computer-readable memory device of claim 20, where the user behavior information relates to at least one of a number of times that the document was accessed by users or an amount of time that the users spent accessing the document, and where the web document relating to the document corresponds to a publisher or author associated with the document.

21. A method, performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

receiving, at one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a search query that includes a search term;

identifying, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a print document related to the search term;

determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a first score for the print document based on at least one of;

a number of occurrences of the search term in the print document,

a location of the search term within the print document, or

a characteristic of the search term within the print document;

determining, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a second score for the print document based on at least one of;

best seller list information relating to the print document,

circulation information relating to the print document,

publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the print document,

author sales information relating to an author associated with the print document,

user behavior information relating to accesses associated with the print document by users, or

a link-based score of a web document relating to the print document;

generating, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, a score for the print document based on;

a location from which the search term was received, and

a combination of the first score and the second score; and

providing, by one or more processors of the one or more server devices, at a location in a list of search results based on the generated score, information associated with the print document as a search result based on the generated score.

26. The method of claim 21, where the web document relating to the print document corresponds to a publisher or author associated with the print document.

27. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

identifying a title of the print document; and

searching a corpus of web documents based on the identified title to locate the web document relating to the print document.