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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2004
Gregory M. Plow, Gilroy, CA (US);
Farrokh E. Pourmirzaie, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory M. Plow, Gilroy, CA (US);
Farrokh E. Pourmirzaie, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A user selectable evaluation indicia associated with a displayed unit of information within an application is provided. Responsive to a user interaction with the evaluation indicia, an evaluation opportunity is presented to the user. At least a portion of a user's activities comprising the user participation is transformed, responsive to the user's participation with the evaluation opportunity, into search framework metadata for the unit of information. The search framework metadata may facilitate ranking search results comprising the unit of information.