Patent ID: 8972394
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more documents of a set of first documents, the method comprising: aggregating user selection data for multiple users, the first documents and a group of candidate documents being in a corpus of web documents, the user selection data indicating, for each of the multiple users, whether the user viewed one of the candidate documents during a window of time after a search result corresponding to one of the first documents was presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query; determining, using the aggregated user selection data, a respective strength of relationship score between each candidate document in the group of candidate documents and each first document in the set of first documents, each respective strength of relationship score being determined based on whether each user of the multiple users viewed the candidate document during the window of time after a search result corresponding to the first document was presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query; calculating an aggregate strength of relationship score for each candidate document from the respective strength of relationship scores for the candidate document; and selecting the one or more second documents from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.