Patent ID: 7257577
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for ranking search results, comprising: a plurality of indices for grading a set of pages to generate a graded set of pages; a plurality of selectable scoring modules that are selected by selection modules for selectively ranking the graded set of pages to generate a plurality of ranked sets of pages, according to an aggregated customizable ranking comprising a plurality of different scoring techniques; wherein the plurality of selectable scoring modules include a plurality of scoring modules selected by the selection modules and a plurality of scoring modules that have not been selected by the selection modules; a duplication module for duplicating the ranked sets of pages; the scoring modules selected by the selection modules independently scoring corresponding duplicates of the ranked sets of pages; wherein the plurality of scoring modules selected by the selection modules include: wherein each selectable scoring module scores one of the duplicates of the ranked set of pages according to one of the scoring techniques by generating the first and second sets of scores; a rank aggregation processor for merging the scored corresponding duplicate sets of pages into a single scored set of pages; and wherein the rank aggregation processor further ranks pages in the single scored set of pages.