Appeal No. 2003-0706
Application No. 09/356,241
subject matter but are objected to as being dependent on a rejected
base claim.
The claimed invention relates to database searching in which
each of a plurality of records in a database is associated with a
user feedback parameter which is utilized in ranking search
results. The user feedback parameter for a given record can be
selectively updated in response to the detection of multiple
accesses by a user to the record and/or the detection that the
record is the most recently accessed record in the search result
set. Further, a feedback parameter for a given record may be
associated with a plurality of weights that are in turn associated
with particular keywords. When the relevancy of a particular
record is determined in the ranking of records in a search result
set, only those weights that are associated with keywords that
match the search request are used in the ranking determination.
Claims 14 and 27 are illustrative of the invention and read as
follows:
14. A method of accessing a database, the method comprising:
(a) in response to a search request, generating a result set
including identifications of a subset of a plurality of records in
a database that match the search request;
(b) ordering the identifications of the records in the result
set using a user feedback parameter associated with each record in
the result set; and
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