Patent ID: 7308643
Filing Date: 2007-12-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of processing information related to documents in a collection of linked documents, the method comprising: accessing a link log, the link log that comprises a plurality of link records, each link record identifying a source document and a list of one or more target documents pointed to by one or more outbound links in the source document; the link record including a source document identifier for the identified source document and one or more target document identifiers for the identified list of target documents; wherein the link records are based, at least in part on information extracted from crawled documents in the collection of linked documents; and outputting a sorted anchor map that corresponds to the link log and that comprises a plurality of anchor records, each anchor record identifying a respective target document and a list of inbound links, the list of inbound links identifying source documents that contain links to the respective target document; the anchor record including a respective target document identifier; wherein the plurality of anchor records are ordered in the sorted anchor map based, at least in part, on their respective target document identifiers; and wherein each respective target document identifier in the plurality of anchor records corresponds to one of the one or more target document identifiers in the link log.