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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
May. 26, 2011
Alpesh S. Patel, Morrisville, NC (US);
Gilbert C. Yu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marshall UY Alexander, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Stephen Joseph Moffett, San Jose, CA (US);
Alpesh S. Patel, Morrisville, NC (US);
Gilbert C. Yu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marshall Uy Alexander, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Stephen Joseph Moffett, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks.