Patent ID: 8862608
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing search results in response to a query, the method comprising: obtaining, by a computer system, access to a corpus comprising a plurality of documents; characterizing, by the computer system after the obtaining, a document of the plurality of documents by selecting one or more first categories from a hierarchal category tree that are reflected in the document and assigning in memory of the computer system the one or more first categories to the document, the hierarchal category tree comprising a taxonomy of different business categories; receiving, by the computer system after the assigning, a query; identifying, by the computer system after the receiving, one or more second categories from the hierarchal category tree that are reflected in the query; generating, by the computer system, a plurality of scores comprising using, by the computer system after the generating, the relevance score to rank the document within search results corresponding to the query; and displaying the search results on a display forming part of the computing system.