Patent Document ID: 8521730
Application ID: 13483859

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by a computer, the method comprising: selecting, by the computer, a first document from a plurality of documents stored in a database; generating, by the computer, a rank for the first document using: R = α N + ( 1 - α ) ⁢ ( r ⁡ ( B 1 )  B 1  + … + r ⁡ ( B n )  B n  ) , where R refers to the rank for the first document, n refers to a value greater than or equal to one, B 1 , . . . , B n refer to one or more second documents, of the plurality of documents, that include a link that points to the first document, r(B 1 ), . . . , r(B n ) refer to ranks for the one or more second documents, |B 1 |, . . . , |B n | refer to a quantity of links that the one or more second documents include, α refers to a constant that is greater than zero and less than one, and N refers to a total quantity of the plurality of documents; and storing, by the computer, the rank for the first document.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: identifying that the first document is associated with a home page or a bookmark of a user; and setting a value for α based on identifying that the first document is associated with a home page or a bookmark of the user.