Patent Document ID: 8051071
Application ID: 11562617

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by one or more devices, the method comprising: determining, by one or more processors of the one or more devices, an amount or rate that a document moves positions in search result rankings over time, compared to one or more prior positions of the document in the search result rankings; generating, by one or more processors of the one or more devices, a score for the document based on the amount or rate that the document moves in the search result rankings over time, compared to the one or more prior positions of the document in the search result rankings; and ranking, by one or more processors of the one or more devices, the document with regard to at least one other document based on the score.

---

Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , where the score is a first score, the method further comprising: determining a set of search terms relating to a particular topic or news item; determining that the document is associated with the set of search terms; identifying another document that is not associated with the set of search terms; generating a second score for the other document, where the first score exceeds the second score; and ranking the document with regard to at least the other document based on the first and second scores.