US 11,113,299 B2 · System and method for metadata transfer among search entities

Abstract

A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to ascribe or transfer metadata from one search-related entity to another, where each entity can be one of subject or source, citation, and object or target. First, one or more complete or incomplete attributes associated with one or more of entities across source, citation and target are identified with a high degree of probable accuracy, wherein such metadata or attributes include but are not limited to, time, language, and location of the entities. The identified attributes are then ascribed or transferred from one entity where the metadata is available to other search entities. Finally, the transferred attributes can be utilized to facilitate the selection and ranking of the cited targets for the search result.

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A non-transitory machine readable medium containing executable program instructions which when executed by a data processing device cause the device to perform a method comprising:

selecting a plurality of objects by retrieving a plurality of citations that are composed by the plurality of subjects citing one or more of a plurality of objects that fit searching criteria;
identifying at least one incomplete attribute from the one or more of the plurality of objects and at least one identified attribute from the plurality of the citations corresponding to the at least one incomplete attribute from the one or more of the plurality of objects;
transferring the at least one identified attribute from the plurality of the citations to the one or more of the plurality of objects that is having the at least one incomplete attribute, wherein the attributes are applicable to the one of the plurality of objects;
ranking the plurality of objects cited by the plurality of citations using one or more attributes, wherein the one or more attributes include the at least one identified attribute transferred from the plurality of citations;
displaying at least some of the plurality of objects.

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A method comprising:

retrieving a plurality of citations that are composed by a plurality of subjects citing one or more of a plurality of objects that fit searching criteria;
identifying at least one incomplete attribute from the one or more of the plurality of objects and at least one identified attribute from the plurality of the citations corresponding to the at least one incomplete attribute from the one or more of the plurality of objects;
transferring at least one identified attribute from the plurality of the citations to the one or more of the plurality of objects that is having the at least one incomplete attribute, wherein the attributes are applicable to the one of the plurality of objects;
selecting a subset of objects from the plurality of objects as a search result based on a matching of the searching criteria with the at least one identified attributes transferred to at least one of the plurality of objects from the citations;
and
ranking the subset of objects cited by the plurality of citations using a ranking searching criteria;
displaying at least some of the subset of objects.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for metadata transfer among search entities

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