Patent ID: 7634716
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of generating lists of related documents performed by a computer system, the method comprising: providing, by a processor of the computer system, a first set of documents that link to a particular document and a second set of documents that are pointed to by forward links in the documents of the first set; assigning, by the processor, values to the forward links in the documents in the first set; generating, by the processor, scores for the documents in the second set based on the assigned values of the forward links; generating, by the processor, a first list of documents that are related to the particular document by selecting a subset of documents from the second set based on the generated scores; generating, by the processor, a second list of related documents for at least one of the documents in the first list; and removing, by the processor, the at least one of the documents from the first list if the particular document is not in the second list.