Patent Document ID: 8965904
Application ID: 13426941

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for searching and ranking a list of files-of-interest, comprising: receiving an user input query comprising a plurality of keywords; searching and scoring said files-of-interest, wherein each said file-of-interest comprises a plurality of scores, wherein at least two of said plurality of scores are calculated based on a plurality of paragraph scores, and wherein each paragraph score is calculated based on a total number of matched keywords, a number of unique matched query-keywords, and a plurality of distances between any two adjacent matched keywords within each paragraph; ranking said files-of-interest according to said plurality of scores and based on both score values and priority levels assigned to each of said plurality of scores, in response to the score values of at least two current compared scores are equal, the score values of at least two respective scores with lower priority are used for ranking; presenting results of said ranking to the user; providing an interactive window that allows a user to dynamically reassign the priority levels of said plurality of scores; re-ranking said files-of-interest based on both score values and reassigned priority levels of said plurality of scores of said files-of-interest; and presenting results of said re-ranking to the user.

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Claim 4:
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein at least two of said plurality of scores of each file-of-interest are calculated based on a combination of at least one of: a total number of matched keywords and a number of matched query-keywords in the file of each file-of-interest, a plurality of distances between any two adjacent matched keywords in the file, a distance calculated from the plurality of distances, and a total number of distances less than a threshold distance within the file; and at least one of said plurality of scores is calculated based on a combination of at least one of: a number of users accessed the file, a number of users accessed a website that has published the file, and a publication date of the file.