METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOCUMENTS

Patent №

US 7,809,716

Granted

2010-10-05

Filed 2007

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11740431

The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for establishing documents relationship based on user's operation upon search result. When a user uses search engine to search for documents with a query in repository, the search result may be a list of ranked documents, and these documents may contain a lot of relationship in term of the specific query. If the user clicks some search result further, and if the click and open operation meet certain conditions, for example exceed a period of time, the clicked document could be deemed as related to the search query. Furthermore it could be inferred that there is a strong relationship between different documents clicked by the user. The present invention records the relationship between documents and presents it to the user when necessary.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning0.98
AI hardware0.90
Knowledge representation0.73
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 192750788

Assignors

WANG, QING BO, CHEN, WEI ZHU, FEI, BEN, SU, ZHONG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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