Patent Document ID: 8364679
Application ID: 12561516

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for assigning relevancy to results of a search on an electronic document collection comprising: compiling and indexing a collection of intellectual property documents, each of the documents in the collection having multiple sections; identifying each of the sections of each document in the collection; assigning a weight to each of the identified sections; organizing a search profile for the document collection based on weights assigned to each of the identified sections, wherein the search profile includes a selection of at least one of the identified sections of each document in the compiled collection; at query time, submitting a query to the patent document collection, including selecting at least one search profile, and comparing query data with data in each of the document sections of the selected profile in the collection; computing a relevancy score for each document returned in a compilation of documents generated from said query submission; ranking the documents in the compilation based upon the computed relevancy score; dynamically limiting results in the compilation based upon the ranking; sorting relevant documents in the compilation based upon the dynamic limit applied to the compilation; and applying a secondary weight to add or subtract from the weight assigned to each of the identified sections based upon a quantity of matching strings in select sections of each profile.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising dividing the compilation of documents into hierarchical tiers in response to the sorting relevant documents in the compilation.