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System and method for indexing and displaying document text that has been subsequently quoted

  • US 9,965,554 B2
  • Filed: 05/23/2016
  • Issued: 05/08/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computerized method for weighting search results comprising:

  • a) at a computer system, accessing a computerized database having data about quoting documents that attribute quoted documents as the source for quoted text portions, wherein the data identifies which quoting document quotes each quoted text portion in the quoted documents as well as a location for each quoted text portion within the quoted document;

    b) at the computer system, receiving a search query containing a search term from a user computer;

    c) at the computer system, identifying result documents that contain the search term;

    d) at the computer system, querying the computerized database to determine a count of the quoted text portions that are quoted from each result document, wherein the count is selected from a set consisting of i) a first count that includes only the quoted text portions containing the search term and ii) a second count that includes the quoted text portions that do not containing the search term;

    e) using the counts to create a sorted list of result documents; and

    f) returning the sorted list of result documents to the user computer.

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