US 6,738,764 B2
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY RANKING SEARCH RESULTSGeneral
US 6,738,764 B2
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY RANKING SEARCH RESULTS
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Greta Robinson
Art Unit:
2177 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Agent:
Inventors:
Jianchang Mao; Mani Abrol; Rajat Mukherjee; Michel Tourn; Prabhakar Raghavan
Assignee:
Priority:
05/08/01
Filed:
05/08/01
Granted:
05/18/04
Expiration:
03/13/22
Abstract
A method of ranking search results includes producing a relevance score for a document in view of a query. A similarity score is calculated for the query utilizing a feature vector that characterizes attributes and query words associated with the document. A rank value is assigned to the document based upon the relevance score and the similarity score.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
Y10Y10S707/99933Y10SG06F16/3347G06F