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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Jerome Louis Budzik, Chicago, IL (US);
Sanjay Chand Sood, Evanston, IL (US);
Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Evanston, IL (US);
Kristian J. Hammond, Chicago, IL (US);
Andrew Joseph Crossen, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jerome Louis Budzik, Chicago, IL (US);
Sanjay Chand Sood, Evanston, IL (US);
Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Evanston, IL (US);
Kristian J. Hammond, Chicago, IL (US);
Andrew Joseph Crossen, Baltimore, MD (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Perfect Market, Inc., Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
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.