Document retrieval over networks wherein ranking and relevance s

Details Document retrieval over networks wherein ranking and relevance s Document retrieval over networks wherein ranking and relevance s

1995-05-17

1997-08-19

Black, Thomas G.

395610, 395604, 395609, G06F 1730

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056597320

ABSTRACT:
A document search method using a plurality of databases available from one or more servers using one or more search engines. For each database, the number of records is determined and reported, as well as frequency of search query term occurances or hits, together with identification of database records corresponding to the hits. Reports from a plurality of databases are furnished to a user terminal, a client, where client software computes a relevance score for each record based upon the number of records in the database, the number of records having at least one hit and the number of hits for each record. This local computation from uniform data allows all documents to be ranked consistently as if coming from a single database.

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