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Criteria-specific authority ranking

  • US 9,984,162 B1
  • Filed: 12/06/2016
  • Issued: 05/29/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of ranking a plurality of linkable documents accessible via a computer network, the method comprising the steps of:

  • analyzing, by a server on the network, each document so as to measure one or more criteria of the document, each criterion being independent of links between the document and other documents accessible via the computer network and at least one criterion including the frequency of occurrence of a search token;

    assigning, by the server, an intrinsic score to each document based on the analysis, the intrinsic score being independent of links between the document and other documents accessible via the computer network;

    identifying for each document, by the server, all links between the respective document and one or more other documents accessible via the computer network, where links are hyperlinks or citations; and

    generating, by the server, a ranking score for each document based at least in part on the intrinsic scores of each of the one or more other documents accessible via the computer network with one or more links to the respective document and iteratively updating the ranking score of each document based on previous ranking scores and the intrinsic scores of documents linked therewith.

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