Patent ID: 9418104
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining a plurality of search results responsive to a search query submitted by a user, wherein each search result refers to a respective document that is associated with a respective plurality of click measures, each click measure relating to a different country and representing, at least, a measure of behavior of users associated with the respective country in regards to the document when the document was referred to in a search result previously provided in response to the search query, wherein a plurality of the users are located in one or more countries that are different than the country of the user; determining that a language of a particular country is incompatible with a language of the country of the user; for each of a first plurality of the search results, reducing one or more click measures of the plurality of click measures associated with the document referred to by the search result, wherein each of the one or more reduced click measures relates to a respective country that is incompatible with the country of the user and each of the one or more reduced click measures is reduced in response to determining that the language of the particular country is incompatible with the language of the country of the user; for each particular search result of the first plurality of the search results, calculating a respective scoring factor based on (i) the one or more reduced click measures that relate to a respective country that is incompatible with the country of the user and are associated with the document referred to by the particular search result and (ii) one or more non-reduced click measures, from the plurality of click measures associated with the document referred to by the search result, that relate to a respective country that is not incompatible with the country of the user; and ranking the search results based upon, at least, the calculated scoring factors.