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Endorsing search results

  • US 9,177,063 B2
  • Filed: 06/13/2014
  • Issued: 11/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, by a computer system comprising one or more servers from particular members of a member network, machine-readable endorsement information that characterizes the particular members'"'"' ratings of various articles;

    receiving member profile information specifying that one or more members of the member network are experts in one or more respective fields;

    receiving, by the computer system, a first search query from a first user in the member network;

    determining, by the computer system, that the first search query relates to a particular field;

    identifying, from an article index by the computer system, a first plurality of articles that are responsive to the first search query;

    identifying, by the computer system from profile information of the members of the member network, one or more experts in the member network that are each an expert in the particular field to which the computer system determined the first search query relates;

    identifying, from a repository of member network data for the member network, a second plurality of articles that are responsive to the first search query and that have been endorsed by particular members in the member network, wherein the repository of member network data is different from the article index;

    determining that a first article in the second plurality of articles has been endorsed by an expert in the one or more experts in the member network who are each an expert in the particular field to which the computer system determined the first search query relates;

    generating, by the computer system, a plurality of article identifiers for articles that include articles from the first and second pluralities of articles;

    ranking, by the computer system, using the endorsements for articles in the second plurality of articles, the first article that has been endorsed by the expert in the particular field to which the first search query relates with a higher ranking than a second article that was not endorsed by an expert in the particular field to which the first search query relates; and

    responding, by the computer system, to the first search query with the plurality of article identifiers according to the ranking including a first article identifier for the first article and a second article identifier for the second article.

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