Patent ID: 7440952

Claim:
In a computer system having a local disk, a method of creating a metaindex from an index of a node A to which metadata information is added, the method comprising: in response to a determination that the metaindex of the node A is cached on the local disk, searching the metaindex of the node A; locating a file for access; detennining ownership of the file to access information associated with the metaindex of the node A; obtaining permission to access the tile; extracting characteristics of an index of the node A, wherein the characteristics include keywords that reflect an interest from the node A; receiving a search query history from a node X in the node A; searching the extracted index of the node A, which include a file ID; adding metadata to the index of the node A; in response to a determination that the node A includes at least one additional local metaindex, searching the at least one additional metaindex with the search query history from the node X in the node A, and merging search results with the metaindex of the node A, wherein the one additional metaindex merged to the metaindex of the node A includes an acquisition path; extracting a difference history of the search query history from the node X in the node A; selecting keywords that are included in the difference history; calculating a relevance ratio of keywords that are not included in the difference history with a selected keyword; calculating a time value for each keyword with the relevance ratio; in response to a determination that the keyword was sent a time greater than the time value, adding the keyword to a relevance history: in response to a determination that there are no other keywords included in the difference history, sending the difference history and the relevance history to the node A; and sending the metaindex of the node A to the node X.