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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2002
Applicants:
Cynthia Dwork, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simeon Naor, Matam, IL;
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Dandapani Sivakumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Cynthia Dwork, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simeon Naor, Matam, IL;
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Dandapani Sivakumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for aggregating rankings from a plurality of ranking sources to generate a maximally consistent ranking by minimizing a distance measure. The ranking sources may be search engines executing queries on web pages that have been deliberately modified to cause an incorrect estimate of their relevance. The invention supports combining partial rankings.