Patent ID: 7693825

Claim:
A method of ranking article identifiers of a result set from an implicit query implied from a user's current context, the method comprising: receiving an event concerning the user's current context, wherein the event comprises a user interaction with an article having content stored on a local client device, wherein the article is associated with at least one of a plurality of client applications; analyzing the content of the article associated with the event concerning the user's current context to extract at least one keyword and to identify one or more characteristics of the content of the article, a characteristic comprising highlighting of the content of the article; generating the implicit query based at least in part on the at least one keyword; performing a search based at least in part on the implicit query to determine the result set, wherein the result set comprises one or more article identifiers associated with articles relevant to the implicit query; and ranking the article identifiers based at least in part on the one or more characteristics of the content of the article associated with the event concerning the user's current context, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise the identified highlighting of the content of the article associated with the event.