Searching, sorting, and displaying video clips and sound files by relevance

• US 8,849,815 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2013
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Relevant Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Inform, Inc. (CDC Corporation)
• Inventors: Peters, Gregory Alton, Hernacki, Paul Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuddus, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/752,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20130138624A1
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 707/765, 707/999.005, 707/731, 707/748
• US Class Current: 707/731
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90324 using system suggestions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of ranking persons, each person being associated with at least one document, a search engine identifying relevant documents based upon a search request for a person, the computer-implemented method comprising:

assigning a score to each person using the relationship

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the coefficient for the broadness of impact rank is a function of a type of a political office.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the broadness of impact rank of the person Y is determined at least in part by whether the person Y is either a current holder of the political office, a former holder of the political office, or a candidate for the political office.