Appeal No. 2003-1177
Application No. 09/510,054
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention is directed to weighted indexing of
web-based hierarchical documents for search by a user. According
to Appellant, during a search using a search engine, the
information gathered by a crawler is summarized and arranged in a
hierarchy known as “metadata” (specification, page 1). The
metadata is indexed by an index engine and is later used by the
query executor of the search engine for providing the names or
URLs (uniform resource locators) of the documents identified by
the query (specification, pages 1 & 2). In the claimed system,
the metadata includes plural elements which are weighted in
accordance with a weighting scheme to generate weighted metadata
to be provided to the index engine (specification, page 3).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A computer system, comprising:
a general purpose computer;
logic executable by the computer for undertaking method
acts comprising:
receiving metadata representing at least one document
accessible via a wide area computer network, the metadata
including plural elements;
weighting at least some elements in accordance with a
weighting scheme to render weighted metadata; and
providing the weighted metadata to an index engine.
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