Auto Generation of Suggested Links in a Search System

• US 20070208713A1
• Filed: 02/28/2007
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Krishnaprasad, Muralidhar, Chang, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 8,005,816 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety or sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.

Claims

1. A method of automatically generating suggested links in a secure search system, comprising:

initiating a crawl across an enterprise, the enterprise including a plurality of secure data sources;

automatically storing any external link to a data source outside the enterprise that is discovered during the crawl as a suggested link;

if the external link is subsequently discovered to be inside the enterprise during the crawl, removing the external link as a suggested link; and

determining relevancy scoring for each suggested link

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a subset of the suggested links to a user in response to a query, the subset being determined by the relevancy scoring for the suggested links.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

defining a boundary to the enterprise useful in determining external links.

4. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

selecting how many suggested links to display to the user.

5. A method according to claim 2, further comprising:

displaying the suggested links separate from results for the query.

6. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

auto-generating keywords for the suggested links.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein:

auto-generating keywords includes capturing anchor text associated with the suggested link.

8. A method according to claim 6, wherein:

auto-generating keywords includes capturing text around the suggested link.

9. A method according to claim 6, wherein:

auto-generating keywords includes traversing the suggested link and capturing text from the traversed link.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein:

the captured text from the traversed link includes words from a title of a document associated with the link.

11. A computer program product embedded in a computer readable medium for automatically generating suggested links in a secure search system, comprising:

program code for initiating a crawl across an enterprise, the enterprise including a plurality of secure data sources;

program code for automatically storing any external link to a data source outside the enterprise that is discovered during the crawl as a suggested link;

program code for removing the external link as a suggested link when the external link is subsequently discovered to be inside the enterprise during the crawl; and

program code for determining relevancy scoring for each suggested link

12. A computer program product according to claim 11, further comprising:

program code for displaying a subset of the suggested links to a user in response to a query, the subset being determined by the relevancy scoring for the suggested links.

13. A computer program product according to claim 11, further comprising:

program code for defining a boundary to the enterprise useful in determining external links.

14. A computer program product according to claim 11, further comprising:

program code for selecting how many suggested links to display to the user.

15. A computer program product according to claim 12, further comprising:

program code for displaying the suggested links separate from results for the query.

16. A computer program product according to claim 11, further comprising:

program code for auto-generating keywords for the suggested links.

17. A computer program product according to claim 16, wherein:

program code for auto-generating keywords includes program code for capturing anchor text associated with the suggested link.

18. A computer program product according to claim 16, wherein:

program code for auto-generating keywords includes program code for capturing text around the suggested link.

19. A computer program product according to claim 16, wherein:

program code for auto-generating keywords includes program code for traversing the suggested link and capturing text from the traversed link.

20. A computer program product according to claim 19, wherein:

the captured text from the traversed link includes words from a title of a document associated with the link.