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Global anchor text processing

US7788253B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Frederick S. Grennan · San Jose, US
Ronny Lempel · Haifa, IL
Andreas Neumann · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 28, 2006
Grant date	Aug 31, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 31, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/951
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Provided are techniques for building a search index. While building the search index and using the search index to respond to one or more search requests, an anchor information store is maintained, wherein each entry of the anchor information store identifies a referring document, a target document, and anchor text associated with a link from the referring document to the target document; a document is received for processing; one or more entries in the anchor information store for which the document to be processed is identified as the target document are located; anchor text is retrieved from each of the identified entries; and the retrieved anchor text is stored in an entry of the search index for the document.

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