The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2007
LI Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yuhong Xiong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shicong Feng, Beijing, CN;
Yong Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Li Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yuhong Xiong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shicong Feng, Beijing, CN;
Yong Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The relevance of documents is automatically determined based upon a weighted tree. Terms considered to be relevant are assigned to the leaf nodes of a tree data structure. A location can also be specified in a leaf node, indicating where in a document the term must appear to be considered relevant. Internal nodes of the tree are assigned operators (e.g., add, maximum or minimum). The connections between nodes are assigned weights. A relevance value for a given document is calculated as a function of occurrence in the document of terms assigned to leaves, operators assigned to internal nodes, and weights assigned to the associated node connections. Weighted trees can be used to process search queries. Documents with high relevance scores calculated against the tree can be returned to a user as the results to a query.