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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas James Emerson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lun Ted Cui, Fremont, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of cited objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of 'experts' on 'topics' without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time.