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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bernhard S. J. Kohlmeier, Seattle, WA (US);
Douglas M. Taylor, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pradeep Chilakamarri, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for identifying and managing trusted sources in online and networked content. URLs and other objects are vetted and identified as trusted sources based on the documents in which these objects are used or otherwise acted upon and not on the content of the URLs or other objects themselves. When a URL or other object is used in a document, the URL is given a score based on the use activity, attributes of the document itself, and, optionally, user history of the user. As users use that same URL with respect to their documents, the scores from those activities are accrued to that URL. A URL with an accrued score (value) above (or equal to) a threshold value can be added to a corpus of trusted sources that can be accessed when conducting research and/or by other applications and search engines.