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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2006
Scott Brave, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Bradshaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack Jia, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Christopher Minson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott Brave, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Bradshaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack Jia, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Christopher Minson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Baynote, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes: Subject Authority, Work Patterns, Content Freshness, and Group Know-how. The invention produces useful, timely, cross-application, expertise-based search and navigation results. In contrast, traditional Information Retrieval technologies such as inverted index, NLP, or taxonomy tackle the same problem with an opposite set of attributes than what the enterprise needs: Content Population, Word Patterns, Content Existence, and Statistical Trends. Overall, the invention encompasses Baynote Search—a enhancement over existing IR searches, Baynote Guide—a set of community-driven navigations, and Baynote Insights—aggregated views of visitor interests and trends and content gaps.