Mobile to non-mobile document correlation

• US 8,996,514 B1
• Filed: 06/15/2005
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Gomes, Benedict A., Harada, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Syling
• Application Number:
  US11/153,237
• Time in Patent Office: 3,576 Days
• Field of Search: 709/246, 707/706, 707/713, 707722-728, 707/731, 707/732, 707/735, 707/736, 707/758, 707/781, 707999002-999006
• US Class Current: 707/728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A computer-implemented method of determining the relevance, to a user, of documents accessible over a computer network involves analyzing information relating to a first document, identifying a second document corresponding to the first document using a computer, obtaining information that indicates the relevance of a second document, determining the relevance of the first document using the information indicating relevance of the second document. The first document may be a mobile document, while the second may be a non-mobile document.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a computing system, a query that was defined by user input at a computing device;

identifying, by the computing system, documents that are responsive to the received query, wherein the documents that are responsive to the received query include a particular document;

identifying, by the computing system, that the particular document matches another document;

identifying, by the computing system, information that reflects a ranking of the another document as a result for one or more queries;

determining, by the computing system and in response to having identified the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries, a score to assign to the particular document using the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries, wherein the computing system has determined a score to assign to each of the documents that are responsive to the received query;

ranking, by the computing system and in response to having received the query, each of the documents that are responsive to the received query using the scores that have been assigned to the documents that are responsive to the received query, including the determined score that was assigned to the particular document, to generate a ranking of the documents that are responsive to the received query; and

providing, by the computing system and in response to having received the query, information for receipt by the computing device so as to cause the computing device to present a display of search results that identify the documents that are responsive to the received query and that are presented in an order that is defined by the generated ranking.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the computing system, that the particular document matches the another document by determining that content of the particular document matches content of the another document.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the computing system, that the particular document matches the another document by determining that a request over the internet by a computer for the another document redirects to the particular document.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the another document has been created for display on a non-mobile device; and

determining that the particular document is a version of the another document that is different than the another document and that has been created for display on a mobile device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries is another score that reflects a ranking of the another document as a result for the received query.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the another score reflects a popularity of the another document with respect to a certain term that is included in the received query.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the score to assign to the particular document using the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries includes determining the score to assign to the particular document based on a number of links to the another document that are found is various other documents.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the score to assign to the particular document includes weighting the use of the information that reflects the ranking of the another document based on a number of user selections of the particular document in response to the particular document being presented as a result to queries, such that the information that reflects the ranking of the another document is used less as the number of user selections of the particular document increases.

9. A computer-readable storage device including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause performance of operations that comprise:

receiving, by a computing system, a query that was defined by user input at a computing device;

identifying, by the computing system, documents that are responsive to the received query, wherein the documents that are responsive to the received query include a particular document;

identifying, by the computing system, that the particular document matches another document;

identifying, by the computing system, information that reflects a ranking of the another document as a result for one or more queries;

determining, by the computing system and in response to having identified the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries, a score to assign to the particular document using the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries, wherein the computing system has determined a score to assign to each of the documents that are responsive to the received query;

ranking, by the computing system and in response to having received the query, each of the documents that are responsive to the received query using the scores that have been assigned to the documents that are responsive to the received query, including the determined score that was assigned to the particular document, to generate a ranking of the documents that are responsive to the received query; and

providing, by the computing system and in response to having received the query, information for receipt by the computing device so as to cause the computing device to present a display of search results that identify the documents that are responsive to the received query and that are presented in an order that is defined by the generated ranking.

10. The computer-readable storage device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, by the computing system, that the particular document matches the another document by determining that content of the particular document matches content of the another document.

11. The computer-readable storage device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, by the computing system, that the particular document matches the another document by determining that a request over the internet by a computer for the another document redirects to the particular document.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the another document has been created for display on a non-mobile device; and

determining that the particular document is a version of the another document that is different than the another document and that has been created for display on a mobile device.

13. The computer-readable storage device of claim 9, wherein the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries is another score that reflects a ranking of the another document as a result for the received query.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the another score reflects a popularity of the another document with respect to a certain term that is included in the received query.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 9, wherein determining the score to assign to the particular document using the information that reflects the ranking of the another document as the result for the one or more queries includes determining the score to assign to the particular document based on a number of links to the another document that are found is various other documents.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 9, wherein determining the score to assign to the particular document includes weighting the use of the information that reflects the ranking of the another document based on a number of user selections of the particular document in response to the particular document being presented as a result to queries, such that the information that reflects the ranking of the another document is used less as the number of user selections of the particular document increases.