Patent Document ID: 8645393
Application ID: 13088113

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing clusters, with two or more clusters corresponding to different name contexts, and with a cluster comprising resources that are determined to be relevant to a name context of the cluster; receiving, for a resource in the cluster, a search score for the resource, the search score being indicative of a relevance of the resource to a search query that includes the name context of the cluster; receiving, for the resource in the cluster, a resource ranking score for the resource in the cluster, the resource ranking score being (i) at least partly based on a cluster relation score, and (ii) indicative of a ranking of the resource in the cluster relative to rankings of other resources in the cluster; wherein the cluster relation score is indicative of an authority of the resource relative to authorities of the other resources in the cluster; generating a cluster rank score for the cluster, the cluster rank score at least partly based on the search scores for the resources and the resource ranking scores for the resources; and ranking the clusters according to their cluster rank score.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, from a computing device used by a user, the search query for the name context; identifying one or more first connections between the user and one or more first social networks; identifying one or more second connections between the accessed clusters and one or more second social networks; determining a match between at least one of the one or more first social networks and at least one of the one or more second social networks; and increasing a value of the cluster rank score by a predetermined amount based on the determined match.