Patent Document ID: 8346750
Application ID: 13282537

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of web documents tagged as falling within one or more categories of web documents responsive to one or more search queries; ranking the plurality of web documents tagged as falling within the one or more categories responsive to the one or more search queries based at least on a number of experts of the one or more categories that tagged respective ones of the plurality of web documents, wherein a given expert is determined based upon a number of users that agree with the input of one or more tags by the given expert exceeding a threshold value; and generating a list of ranked search results responsive to the one or more search queries.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 wherein primary users are identified as experts of the one or more categories of web documents based on a number of secondary users that agree with the plurality of primary users tagging of web documents as falling within the one or more categories.