Patent ID: 6947920
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of optimizing a response time for retrieving relevant documents from a set of candidate documents identified in response to a search query where the search query includes one or more terms, the method comprising the steps of: assigning alarm weight to each of the terms of the search query; associating a document to a relevance score bin based on a total matched term weight computed for the document being based on a sum of the term weights of the terms in the search query that are matched by the document, where a document that matches a first total matched term weight is associated to a more relevant score bin than a document that matches a second total matched term weight that is less than the first total term weight; and retrieving a set of most relevant documents based on the association to the relevance score bins having a highest relevance score without retrieving other candidate documents.