Patent ID: 9192684
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A61K,G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request to perform a search, the request comprising a query received through a user interface provided by a third party website; determining a topic identifier for the third party website that provides the user interface through which the query is received; mapping the topic identifier for the third party website to one or more weight values, the one or more weight values being associated with a specific topic; retrieving a set of documents responsive to the query, each document in the set of documents having an information retrieval score; adjusting the information retrieval score of each of the documents that are associated with the specific topic by at least one of the one or more weight values associated with the specific topic; ranking the set of documents according to the respective information retrieval scores; and returning, in response to the request, search results data identifying at least a highest ranking portion of the set of documents and also identifying the rank order of the documents in the highest ranking portion.