Patent Document ID: 8290924
Application ID: 12504684

Base Claim:
1. A method to answer a query, comprising: saving, in a first database, website classifications of websites based on contents; receiving keywords in the query; determining query specifications from the keywords, the query specifications being website classifications of websites that may contain an answer to the query; determining a group of websites based on the query specifications and the website classifications saved in the first database; selecting a website from the group based on credibility of the websites saved in a second database; searching web pages of the website for the answer; selecting the answer from the web pages; and transmitting the answer.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the credibility of the websites is based on information closeness, information closeness being determined for a website being based on a past answer determined from the website compared to past answers provided from other websites in response to a past query.