Patent Document ID: 7974957
Application ID: 11697134
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for ranking pages, by a method comprising: receiving pages, the pages being pages of a search result for a search request; evaluating mobile readiness of the pages, the mobile readiness of a page relating to how well the page will function when displayed on mobile device with a small display area by: extracting first values of features of the page; and applying a mobile-readiness scorer to the first values of features to generate a mobile-readiness score for the page, by providing a mobile-readiness scorer having been trained by: collecting training pages; extracting second values of features of the training pages; labeling the training pages with input scores of mobile readiness of the training pages; and learning parameters for the mobile-readiness scorer that attempts to minimize differences between the input scores for the training pages and the mobile-readiness scores generated by the mobile-readiness scorer for the training pages based on the second values of the features by iteratively adiusting the parameters and determining the differences; and generating a mobile readiness score for the page as a function of the parameters and the first values of the features; and ranking the pages based on the mobile readiness and another criterion, the other criterion being based at least in part on relevance of the pages to the search request; wherein the features consist of page layout features, function availability features, horizontal scrolling features, understandability features, readability features, page length features, or vertical scrolling features.