Patent · US Expired

Scoring documents in a linked database

US7269587B1 · kind B1 · utility

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18References
14Claims
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Filing dateDec 1, 2004
Grant dateSep 11, 2007
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99937
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.