Personalized search apparatus and method

Abstract

A personalized search apparatus includes: a model generating unit for generating a user favorites analysis model based on directory grouping information about directories stored in a user terminal and user behavior information; and a user favorites analysis model DB for storing the generated user favorites analysis model. Further, the personalized search apparatus includes a search engine for searching for a file relevant to an input query using an information search engine installed in the user terminal to generate search results; and a personalized search engine for re-ranking the search results generated by the search engine based on the user favorites analysis model to generate personalized search results.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.