Patent ID: 7634461

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of enhancing the relevance of search results to a particular user's interest in one or more electronic documents, the method comprising: monitoring at least one access of at least one electronic document by a user at a computer workstation having a processor; collecting data associated with the at least one access of the at least one document, wherein the collected data includes one or more of (i) an amount of time the user spends on the at least one document, (ii) a number of times the user has viewed the at least one document, (iii) or whether the user printed the at least one document; associating, in a memory device, the collected data in a searchable index, wherein the index includes one or more entries for only one or more electronic documents the user has previously accessed; receiving, via an input device, a user-input to search the index; and presenting search results, in a graphical user interface of a display device, related to at least one document in the index along with at least a portion of the collected data.