Patent Document ID: 8260774
Application ID: 12622262

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving at least one search criteria from a first source; identifying multiple portions of indexed content, each respective portion of indexed content related to at least one characteristic of the search criteria, each respective portion of indexed content referencing metadata; determining a relevance of each respective portion of indexed content to the first source who provided the search criteria, the relevance based on user feedback associated with an online version of the portion of indexed content; ranking the multiple portions of indexed content according to their respective relevance to the first source who provided the search criteria; and creating a search result based on ranking the multiple portions of indexed content.

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Claim 13:
13. The method as in claim 1 further comprising: receiving at least one second search criteria from a second source; analyzing feedback provided by the second source; determining whether the second source has similar preferences as the first source; in response to determining that the second source has similar preferences as the first source, identifying a second portion of indexed content related to feedback from the second source; and ranking the second portion of indexed content related to the second source's feedback as relevant to the at least one search criteria.