Identifying relevant portions of a document
US8005825B1 · kind B1 · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 27, 2005 |
| Grant date | Aug 23, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 23, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/951
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus and associated systems, methods, and computer program products relate to identifying types of search query terms based on the location of information that matches the search query terms. The query terms may be assigned weights according to the query type. The assigned weights may be used, in conjunction with a scoring rule, to determine a score that indicates how relevant blocks of information in the selected document are to the search query terms. In one example, query terms that are located in the title or the URL information associated with a document are classified as a query type that is assigned little or no weight. In this way, relevance scoring within a document may be improved by discounting the influence of query terms that are likely to be primarily meaningful for locating (i.e., navigating to) a relevant document, but less meaningful for locating relevant information within a document.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.