Patent Document ID: 8204888
Application ID: 12961823

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: associating, by a computer system, a first plurality of tags with documents in a enterprise; creating, by the computer system, a tag for a document in the enterprise by: retrieving a first term associated with the document, wherein the first term corresponds to a location of the document or to metadata associated with the document; and applying a translation rule to convert the first term into a second term used in the tag; associating, by the computer system, a second plurality of tags with individuals in the enterprise; receiving, by the computer system, a search query including a first tag; determining, by the computer system, a list of documents based on the search query, the list of documents including one or more documents in the enterprise that are associated with the first tag; determining, by the computer system, a list of experts based on the search query and the list of documents, the list of experts including: one or more individuals in the enterprise that are associated with the first tag, and one or more individuals in the enterprise that are knowledgeable about subject matter described in one or more documents in the list of documents; and generating, by the computer system, a user interface including the list of documents and the list of experts, wherein a rank value is determined for each document in the list of documents at least partially based on tags that define knowledge encapsulated by the content of each document, wherein the tags are linked with documents by content users, wherein each document in the list of documents is ordered according to its rank value, wherein one or more coefficients are calculated for the one or more documents using user actions, wherein the rank value for the document is calculated using the one or more coefficients; wherein an expert rank value is determined for each expert in the list of experts at least partially based on tags applied to the experts by content users in the enterprise and one or more connections between the expert and other individuals in the enterprise, and wherein the experts in the list of experts are ordered according to their expert rank values.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein calculating the rank value for the document based on the one or more coefficients comprises: (a) for each row of a core data structure: reading a row of the core data structure into a local memory, inflating the row, converting the row into a row of a damped matrix, and multiplying the row of the damped matrix by a current vector to get a value of a next vector; (b) comparing the next vector to the current vector, wherein if a difference between the next vector and the current vector is greater than an error value, setting the next vector as the current vector and repeating step (a), and wherein if the difference is less than the error value, determining rank values from the next vector.