Patent ID: 7143089
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for creating and maintaining information in a database of subjects, available to a population of users, comprising: a) describing a database subject using a plurality of natural-language terms, each of such plurality of natural-language terms having relevance to the subject according to an involved subset of such population of users; b) rating the degree of relevance of each of such plurality of natural-language terms to such database subject according to each of such involved subset of such population of users; c) associating, in such database, such respective natural-language terms and respective degrees of relevance with each such database subject; and d) computing, for such involved subset of such population of users, in such database, an overall degree of relevance of each of such plurality of natural-language terms to such database subject; e) associating with a particular user a set of particular-user-preferred such natural-language terms from such plurality of natural-language terms; f) using such particular user's preferred such set of particular-user-preferred such natural-language terms, searching such database for database subjects associated with such set of particular-user-preferred such natural-language terms; g) determining a set of relevant such database subjects as are correlated with a high aggregate degree of relevance among such respective overall degrees of relevance of such set of respective particular-user-preferred such natural-language terms; and h) presenting to such particular user information about such relevant database subjects.