Patent ID: 6112202
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer program product, for use with a computer system, for directing the computer system to execute a search of information resources, the resources having content-based links between each other, to identify a desired subset of the information resources which satisfy a desired criterion, the computer program product comprising:a computer-readable medium;means, provided on the recording medium, for directing the computer system to identify an initial set of information resources;means, provided on the recording medium, for directing the computer system to define initial authoritativeness information for the initial set;means, provided on the recording medium, for directing the computer system to use the initial authoritativeness information as input authoritativeness information, to execute the steps of:(i) producing first authoritativeness information about a set of information resources pointed to by links in resources of the input set, and(ii) producing second authoritativeness information about a set of information resources having links that point to resources of the input set; andmeans, provided on the recording medium, for directing the computer system to produce a final set of information resources based on the first and second authoritativeness information.