Web page ranking for page query across public and private
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBenjamin Szekely, Dan Smith, Robert Wang
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Abstract
Documents (web pages) are linked together preferably by Semantic Web links. A pages value is determined in part according to the number of links that link to it. The contribution of a link to the pages value is determined based on a user's accessibility of the page having the link. Accordingly page ‘A’ is linked to page ‘B’ wherein page ‘A’ is linked to by ‘x’ pages and page ‘B.’ is linked to by ‘y’ pages. The page value of page ‘A’ to page ‘B’ in determining page ‘B's rank is based in part on the number of qualified users having access to page ‘A’ as well as the number of links ‘x’ linking to page ‘A’.
Claims30
A method for ranking electronic documents, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining a first accessibility value of a first electronic document having a first rank value, the first electronic document comprising a first link to a second document;
- determining a second rank value of the second electronic document, the second rank value based on the first accessibility value;
- and
- storing the second rank value in a store.
A system for ranking public and private documents, the system comprising:
- a network;
- a first computer system in communication with the network wherein the computer system includes instructions to execute a method comprising the steps of:
- determining a first accessibility value of a first electronic document having a first rank value, the first electronic document comprising a first link to a second document;
- determining a second rank value of the second electronic document, the second rank value based on the first accessibility value;
- and
- storing the second rank value in a store.
A computer program product for ranking public and private documents, the computer program product comprising:
- a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by a processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
- determining a first accessibility value of a first electronic document having a first rank value, the first electronic document comprising a first link to a second document;
- determining a second rank value of the second electronic document, the second rank value based on the first accessibility value;
- and
- storing the second rank value in a store.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.