Patent Document ID: 8838518
Application ID: 14083132

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for using educational contexts for learners to adjust processing of search queries in a learner-specific manner, the method comprising: accessing an educational-context data store that identifies, for each learner of a set of learners, a course that the learner is enrolled in, the course being associated with a syllabus; receiving a search query entered by a learner of the set of learners via an interface at an input time, the search query including a query term; searching the educational-context data store to identify the syllabus associated with the course that the learner is enrolled in; identifying a portion of the syllabus corresponding to the input time; determining a weight for a concept based on: the query term; the course that the learner is identified as being enrolled in; and the portion of the syllabus; identifying a content object in a set of content objects based on the determined weight for the concept; and generating a query result that identifies the content object as being responsive to the query.

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Claim 4:
4. The method for using educational contexts for learners to adjust processing of search queries in the learner-specific manner as recited in claim 1 , further comprising: determining, for each content object in the set of content objects, a content-object weight for the concept; and determining, for each content object in the set of content objects, a relevance metric based on the content-object weight and the weight for the concept, wherein the content object is identified based on the relevance metrics.