Patent Document ID: 8260774
Application ID: 12622262

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving at least one search criteria from a first source; identifying multiple portions of indexed content, each respective portion of indexed content related to at least one characteristic of the search criteria, each respective portion of indexed content referencing metadata; determining a relevance of each respective portion of indexed content to the first source who provided the search criteria, the relevance based on user feedback associated with an online version of the portion of indexed content; ranking the multiple portions of indexed content according to their respective relevance to the first source who provided the search criteria; and creating a search result based on ranking the multiple portions of indexed content.

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Claim 3:
3. The method as in claim 1 , wherein determining the relevance of each respective portion of indexed content to the first source includes: for each respective portion of indexed content: (i) identifying a plurality of user ratings provided to the online version of the portion of indexed content; (ii) determining a metric based on an aggregation of the plurality of user ratings; and (iii) determining the relevance of the portion of indexed content based at least on the metric.