System and method of associating objects in search results

Details System and method of associating objects in search results System and method of associating objects in search results

2005-09-20

2008-10-21

LeRoux, Etienne P (Department: 2161)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

Reexamination Certificate

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07440948

ABSTRACT:
The invention is directed to a system and method of observing actions performed on a computer and inferring relationships between objects based on information corresponding to the observed actions. The invention provides an initial content-based search of the desktop system to generate a list that includes a relevance ranking of objects that correspond to a search term. The content-based search result objects may be analyzed for user-action-based information and/or computer-action-based information so that an action-based association comparison may be performed between objects that are discovered during the content-based search. A re-ordering of the list of relevant content-based search result object may be performed and objects may be removed from the list of content-based search results objects. A timeline may be accessed to add action-based search result objects to the list of content-based search result objects. The combined list of action-based search result objects and content-based search result objects may be re-ordered based on results on results from the updated action-based association comparison.

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