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US 6,799,176 B1Granted
Method for scoring documents in a linked database
AssigneeThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
InventorLawrence Page
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Abstract
A method is presented for scoring documents stored in a network. The method includes identifying links from linking documents to linked documents in the network and determining an importance of the identified links. The method further includes weighting the identified links based on the determined importance and scoring the linked documents based on the weighted links.
Claims1
A computer implemented method for scoring documents, at least some of the documents containing links to other ones of the documents, the method comprising:
- determining a probability that a searcher will access each of the documents after following a number of the links;
- and
- scoring each of the documents based on the determined probability.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.