System and method for metadata transfer among search entities

摘要

A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to ascribe or transfer metadata from one search-related entity to another, where each entity can be one of subject or source, citation, and object or target. First, one or more complete or incomplete attributes associated with one or more of entities across source, citation and target are identified with a high degree of probable accuracy, wherein such metadata or attributes include but are not limited to, time, language, and location of the entities. The identified attributes are then ascribed or transferred from one entity where the metadata is available to other search entities. Finally, the transferred attributes can be utilized to facilitate the selection and ranking of the cited targets for the search result.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a processor; a memory coupled to the processor though a bus; and a process executed from the memory by the processor causes the processor to retrieve a plurality of citations composed by a plurality of subjects citing one or more of a plurality of objects that fit the searching criteria, wherein a citation is an online posting of an opinion of an object by a subject, enable a citation centric search process that focuses on influence of the plurality subjects that cite the plurality of objects, identify one or more attributes associated with the citations, and determine a selection and ranking of objects cited by the citations and using one or more attributes as a filter to select objects, rank objects cited by the citations and use one or more attributes as a filter to select objects, identified attributes being transferred from one entity to other search entities, the transferred attributes facilitating a selection and ranking of cited targets for a search result, transfers the identified attributes from the entities of the citations where the attributes are available to the one or more objects, select the objects as a search result based on the matching of the searching criteria with the attributes transferred to the objects from the citations, calculate influence scores of entities that determine a ranking of any subset of objects obtained from the plurality of citations, and calculate influence scores of the plurality of subjects that compose the plurality of citations citing the plurality of objects.