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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2006
Ethan Fassett, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Thrall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ethan Fassett, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Thrall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to systems, methods and computer-readable media comprising program code for dynamically ranking links to items of audio content returned to a user in response to the execution of a query by a search engine. A method according to one embodiment of the present invention for dynamically ranking links to items of audio content returned to a user in response to the execution of a query by a search engine comprises receiving a query to identify links to one or more items of audio content; parsing the query into one or more logical units; determining an annotation for each of the one or more logical units; selecting a ranking heuristic according to the annotation for each of the one or more logical units and ranking a result set according to the selected ranking heuristic.