Patent ID: 9542530
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for ranking healthcare professionals, comprising: receiving, by a search engine, healthcare information submitted by a user; launching, by the search engine, search delegators to search respective channels of social media based on the healthcare information; receiving, by the search engine, meta search records from the search delegators; scoring, by the search engine, the meta search records based on the healthcare information as well as the channel of social media where the meta search record was found by ranking the meta search records according to (i) a match index indicating a degree of relatedness between each search record and the submitted healthcare information, and (ii) an authoritative index indicating an authority level of the channel of social media where the particular search record was found by the corresponding search delegator; and filtering, by the search engine, the meta search records based on the corresponding scores such that the filtered meta search records are automatically provided to the user based on the corresponding scores.