Patent Document ID: 20080010269
Application ID: 11481735
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of: A) sending said instructions over transmission media; B) receiving said instructions over transmission media; C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium; and D) executing the instructions; wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of: identifying a set of one or more terms related to a specific search query; determining the frequency of a particular term in relation to all terms in the set of terms; obtaining one or more results for the specific search query; determining a proportion of the results that contain the particular term; and determining a relevance of the one or more results, based at least in part on: (1) the proportion of results containing the particular term; and (2) the frequency of the particular term in relation to all terms in the set of terms.