Patent ID: 7421429
Filing Date: 2008-09-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer readable storage medium comprising a system that facilitates ranking weblog (blog) item content, comprising: a data reception component that receives data relating to a blog item; an engine that constructs a weight relating to the data; an analyzer component that identifies at least one link to the blog item from a disparate source, the engine factors the at least one link into the track-back weight, the track-back weight is calculated using and n represents a number of links to the blog item, C track-back is a constant for the track-back, the analyzer component further identifies at least one comment associated to the blog item, the engine factors the at least one comment into the comment weight, the comment weight is calculated using an and n represents a number of comments on the blog item, C comment is a constant for the comment; and a ranking component that ranks the blog item based at least in part upon the comment weight and track-back weight.