Patent Document ID: 9471672
Application ID: 09707911

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of sorting a set of records comprising a list of responsive documents returned by a search, said search including a step of performing a query, said method comprising the steps of: for each record in said list of responsive documents, collecting, from a citation table, the number of times each said record in said list of responsive documents is referenced by records in another set of records; wherein said another set of records is a set of records contained in a database; sorting said list of responsive documents into an order based upon said number of times each said record of said list of responsive documents is referenced in records of said another set of records; and communicating results of said sorting step, in an order corresponding to the order in which records of said set of records are placed by said sorting step, to a user.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of: creating, prior to said collecting step, a unique identifier for each record in said another set of records, and a first look-up table, wherein said first look-up table is configured for storing the unique identifiers of all records cited by said record.