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Bibliographic data: US5920859 (A) ― 1999-07-06
Hypertext document retrieval system and method
| Page bookmark | US5920859 (A) - Hypertext document retrieval system and method | ||||
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| Inventor(s): | LI YANHONG [US] + (LI, YANHONG) | ||||
| Applicant(s): | IDD ENTERPRISES L P [US] + (IDD ENTERPRISES, L.P) | ||||
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| Application number: | US19970794425 19970205 | ||||
| Priority number(s): | US19970794425 19970205 | ||||
Abstract of
US5920859 (A)
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A search engine for retrieving documents pertinent to a query indexes documents in accordance with hyperlinks pointing to those documents. The indexer traverses the hypertext database and finds hypertext information including the address of the document the hyperlinks point to and the anchor text of each hyperlink. The information is stored in an inverted index file, which may also be used to calculate document link vectors for each hyperlink pointing to a particular document. When a query is entered, the search engine finds all document vectors for documents having the query terms in their anchor text. A query vector is also calculated, and the dot product of the query vector and each document link vector is calculated. The dot products relating to a particular document are summed to determine the relevance ranking for each document.