Simulating accesses for archived content

• US 9,135,253 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Anders, Kelley L., Hewitt, Trudy, Thomason, Michael S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stevens, Robert
• Application Number:
  US14/223,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20140207817A1
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: 707/769
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system identifies content for publication by determining a projected usage of unpublished content. The system applies one or more predefined criteria for publication to the projected usage. The content is published in response to the projected usage satisfying the criteria for publication. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for identifying content for publication in substantially the same manners described above.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of identifying content for publication comprising:

analyzing unpublished content to identify terms of the unpublished content, wherein the unpublished content is content that is archived and inaccessible to a user;

analyzing past search queries to identify terms that are associated with the terms of the unpublished content;

estimating a probability that the unpublished content would be selected for a current search query based on the terms of the unpublished content and the terms of the past search queries;

determining a projected usage of unpublished content based on the probability that the unpublished content would be selected for the current search query;

applying one or more predefined criteria for publication to the projected usage; and

publishing the content in response to the projected usage satisfying the criteria for publication.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the projected usage is initially set to a value of zero.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the probability that the unpublished content would be selected for the current search query is added to the initially set value of the projected usage.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the content was formerly published and selected from results of a past search query.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the past search queries include search queries that occurred when the content was formerly published.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the projected usage is further based on information about a user'"'"'s satisfaction with search results of the past search queries.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the past search queries include search queries occurring in a preceding time interval.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the past search queries include search queries that returned no useful results.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content is only accessible to a user in a set of search results returned from a search query when the content is published.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the one or more predefined criteria for publication comprises a predetermined threshold of a projected number of accesses or a rate of accesses.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein satisfying the criteria for publication comprises exceeding the predetermined threshold.