Chaining context-sensitive search results

Details Chaining context-sensitive search results Chaining context-sensitive search results

2007-01-31

2010-02-02

Vital, Pierre M (Department: 2156)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000, C707S793000, C704S009000, C704S010000, C715S204000, C715S205000, C715S256000, C706S020000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07657518

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.

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