Patent Document ID: 7827181
Application ID: 11238906

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining a click distance associated with documents on a network, comprising: storing document and link information for the documents; within the document and link information, additionally storing a specialized word in association with a target document, wherein the specialized word is a variation of a document identifier for a source document that provides a unique word that associates the target document with the source document; wherein the specialized word is appended to anchor text that is associated with the target document; including the specialized word and any target identifiers for the specialized word in an inverted index, wherein the locally stored inverted index relates the specialized word with an identifier of the target document; and assigning a click distance to the source document when an inverted index is queried for the target document according to a query that passes in the specialized word.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein including the specialized word in the inverted index further comprises inserting the specialized word into the inverted index when anchor text to which the specialized word is appended is also inserted into the inverted index.