Patent Document ID: 8694511
Application ID: 11841313

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: identifying click data for a document, wherein the click data represents a plurality of selections of the document, each selection being weighted according to a respective viewing time of the document when the document was identified as a search result responsive to a query submitted by a respective user in a respective country in a respective language; calculating first click data by aggregating the weighted selections of the document that are for a same respective country in a respective language; calculating second click data by aggregating the weighted selections of the document that are for a same respective language; deemphasizing the second click data relative to the first click data based on, at least, a determination that a language of the query and a language of a user interface are the same; and calculating a quality of result statistic for the document by combining the first click data with the deemphasized second click data; and providing the quality of result statistic as an input to a ranking for the document.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 in which the second click data is deemphasized by applying a smoothing factor to the second click data.