Patent ID: 7533081

Claim:
A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to determine relevancy of search results, the executable instructions configured to direct a processor to perform: receiving into a memory information describing a search intention and wherein the intention of the search is not derived from a search phrase; receiving into the memory a rule set describing customization of effects of search matches within different attribute types at different levels of the search data on an overall inclusion in a result set, the rule set describing attribute types and weights that are specific to a domain or a sub-domain of the search data and a relative ordering of attribute importance based on the intention of the search; and determining relevancy of results of a search, in reference to the rule set selected from the group consisting of a whole-biased rule set that favors wholes as a primary ordering criteria and a parts-biased rule set that favors parts as a primary ordering criteria, wherein a source of the search intention is not a user and is an environment of which the user has no control, wherein the search intention further comprises state information that is defined by an organization that sponsors the computer-accessible medium.