Patent Document ID: 7987169
Application ID: 11761948

Base Claim:
1. A machine implemented method comprising: receiving by a search engine, from a content searching or consuming application, an atomic search term, the search engine and the content searching or consuming application being operated on one or more different or same computing devices; receiving a content page nominally associated with the atomic search term, or access information of the content page, by the search engine; generating in response, by the search engine, one or more scores for one or more structures of the content page indicative of relative relevance of the content page or one or more portions of the content page to the atomic search term, wherein a structure includes substructures, wherein the generating of a score for a structure is based at least in part on a distance function and a scoring function, wherein the distance function measures distances between sub-structures within the structure being scored to facilitate determining of mutual relevance of occurrence positions, and wherein the scoring function is positionally sensitive, yielding different scores for at least some different occurrence positions of the atomic search term in substructures of the structure being scored, irrespective of substructure category memberships; and conditionally providing or not providing the content page or one or more portions of the content page, or access information of the content page or one or more portions of the content page, to the content searching or consuming application, by the search engine, based at least in part on the generated one or more scores.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the content page comprises a plurality of constituents, and the method further comprises building a structure by recursively forming higher sub-structures from lower sub-structures of the constituents of the content page.