Patent ID: 9268851
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for ranking information content, said method comprising: receiving a search request specifying one or more search criteria from a first individual; identifying a preliminary document list of multiple documents corresponding to said search request by searching a corpus using said search criteria; identifying one or more content elements in the multiple documents in said preliminary document list; assigning a value to at least one document in said preliminary document list based on a score for at least one of the one or more content elements in said at least one document, wherein said score is based on (i) one or more metrics of one or more social networks and (ii) a performance measure of one or more related individuals that accessed one or more of said multiple documents having at least one of the one or more identified content elements, and wherein said score is further based on a regression model between said performance measure and one or more of said content elements, wherein: providing search results based on said value assigned to the at least one document in said preliminary document list, wherein one or more steps of said method are performed by one or more hardware devices.