Patent ID: 7254576
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computerized method for locating and presenting to a user electronic documents most-likely of interest to the user, comprising: receiving search terms to be located in a set of electronic documents, wherein the search terms include at least three terms; selecting an anchor term from said search terms, wherein the search terms not selected as the anchor term are non-anchor search terms; locating within at least one of said electronic documents one or more occurrences of said anchor term; associating with at least one located occurrence of said anchor term a selected occurrence of each of the non-anchor search terms to produce a set of search term occurrences that includes an occurrence of each of said search terms, wherein the choosing of the selected occurrences includes consideration of a desired placement associated with each of the non-anchor search terms; associating with each of said set of search term occurrences a value indicating a measure of the variation between the selected occurrences of each of the non-anchor search terms and the desired placement of each of the non-anchor search terms; and ranking the electronic documents using said value and presenting the electronic documents to the user according to said ranking.