Patent Document ID: 7516123
Application ID: 11105698

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for querying semantically linked web pages in a semantic web comprising web pages linked by semantic links, each semantic link characterized as having a label providing a specific semantic link type, the method comprising: receiving a query from a user, the query comprising one or more interest vectors, an interest vector representing an amount of user interest in web pages related to a corresponding semantic link type; based on the received query, searching a plurality of pages, the search identifying semantically linked web pages comprising at least a first page and a second page, the first page semantically linked to a target web page by a first semantic link type, the second page semantically linked to the target web page by a second semantic link type; obtaining a first page rank value related to the first page and a second page rank value related to the second page, the first page rank value indicating a value associated with the first semantic link type and the second page rank value indicating a value associated with the second semantic link type; calculating a first custom page rank value associated with the first page, the calculation based on the obtained first page rank value and the one or more interest vectors; calculating a second custom page rank value associated with the second page, the calculation based on the obtained second page rank value and the one or more interest vectors; and storing in a computer memory, as page rank values related to the target page, the calculated first custom page rank value and the calculated second custom page rank value.

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Claim 7:
7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the one or more interest vectors are specified by an interest category of a plurality of semantic link types.