Full-text relevancy ranking

A program readable medium having embodied thereon a program for causing a processor to rank relevancy of search results of a search for media on a communications network, said program readable medium comprising:

• means for causing said processor to categorize metadata associated with said media, each category of metadata comprising at least one set of metadata;
• means for causing said processor to assign at least one weight to each set of metadata, wherein a value of each weight is determined in accordance with a content of each set of metadata;
• and
• means for causing said processor to calculate a score for ranking said relevancy of each search result, wherein a score is calculated for each search result in accordance with said at least one assigned weight and category of each set of metadata.

A data signal embodied in a carrier wave comprising:

• a categorize metadata code segment for categorizing metadata associated with media on a communications network, each category of metadata comprising at least one set of metadata;
• an assign weight code segment for assigning at least one weight to each set of metadata, wherein a value of each weight is determined in accordance with a content of each set of metadata;
• and
• a calculate score code segment for calculating a score for ranking relevancy of search results of a search for said media on a communications network, wherein a score is calculated for each search result in accordance with said at least one assigned weight and category of each set of metadata.

A method for ranking relevancy of search results of a search for at least one of streaming media and multimedia (m/s media) on a communications network, said method comprising the steps of:

• categorizing metadata associated with said at least one of m/s media, each category of metadata comprising at least one set of metadata, wherein said category comprises at least one of artist of said m/s media, type of m/s media, date said m/s media was created, and creation location of said m/s media;
• assigning at least one weight to each set of metadata, wherein:
• a value of each weight is determined in accordance with a content of each set of metadata;
• and
• said value of each weight is determined in accordance with at least one of bit rate of said m/s media, duration of said m/s media, sampling rate of said m/s media, a number of occurrences of a term in a set of metadata, a number of links to a referenced web site in a set of metadata, a file type of said m/s media, and a number of terms occurring between specified query terms in a web page;
• and
• calculating a score for ranking said relevancy of each search result, wherein a score is calculated for each search result in accordance with said at least one assigned weight and category of each set of metadata.