Northwestern University

Perfect Market, Inc.

Andrew Joseph Crossen

Lawrence A Birnbaum

Kristian J Hammond

Jerome Louis Budzik

Sanjay Chand Sood

Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic model of the user's current work context. In this manner, search results are assessed, ranked, organized, and/or presented with the benefit of attributes of the user's current work context that are predictive of relevance, such as words in a user's document (e.g., web page or word processing document) that may not have been included in the search query. In addition, search results from multiple search engines are combined into an organization scheme that best reflects the user's current task. As a result, lists of search results from different search engines can be more usefully presented to the user.

Chaining context-sensitive search results

Generating a ranked list of search results via result modeling

Organizing context-sensitive search results

Characterizing context-sensitive search results as non-spam

Displaying context-sensitive ranked search results

Filtering context-sensitive search results

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Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Andrew Joseph Crossen