IP Library Patent Application 11621736
Patent Application
App. No. 11/621,736

CONTENT RANK

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11/621,736
Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a content rank that includes at least one quantitative measurement to ascertain the importance of a literary work and/or media. An interface component can receive data related to a query. A rank component can employ a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.

Claims (26)

1 . A system that facilitates querying data, comprising:

an interface component that receives data related to querying content; and

a rank component that employs a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.

2 . The system of claim 1 , the content relates to at least one of a book, a magazine, a newspaper, an article, a periodical, a comic book, a literary work, a written work, a newspaper article, a magazine article, a newspaper article, a portion of literature, a poem, a manual, a portion of data associated with literature, a portion of media, a portion of music, a movie, a portion of a movie, a video, a portion of video, and a portion of data that is queried.

3 . The system of claim 1 , the quantitative measurement is at least one of a number of web pages that mention the content, a measured importance of web pages that mention the content, a number of library holdings for the content, a library circulation number for the content, sales data for the content, a peer group review of the content, and a peer group rating for the content.

4 . The system of claim 3 , the quantitative measurement is at least one of a popularity determination correlating to a sect of users, a number of residual works, a number of related works, a number of unique institutional holdings, a number of reviews, a number of creative entity holdings, a creative entity circulation number, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity sales statistics, a creative entity mentioned in book indices, a relationship with a particular creative entity, a newsgroup opinion, a forum opinion, and an incoming link to content.

5 . The system of claim 4 , the creative entity is a person associated with developing the content.

6 . The system of claim 5 , the creative entity is at least one of an author, a composer, a director, a producer, an actor, an actress, a journalist, a poet, a screen-writer, a special effects artist, an artist, a librarian, a blogger, and a photographer.

7 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a dynamic component that provides a query result.

8 . The system of claim 7 , the dynamic component provides the query result utilizing at least a portion of the content rank.

9 . The system of claim 8 , the content rank is created independent of the query result.

10 . The system of claim 9 , further comprising a plurality of query results provided by the content rank and the hyperlink-based ranking technique.

11 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a query result including the content rank to enable objective evaluation of such query result.

12 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising an update component that enables continuous and seamless upgrading of at least one quantitative measurement utilized to create the content rank.

13 . The system of claim 12 , the update component provides at least one of a disparate version of a quantitative measurement and a replacement quantitative measurement.

14 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a data collection engine that gathers data associated with at least one quantitative measurement related to content.

15 . The system of claim 14 , further comprising an organizational component that organizes data collected by the data collection engine, the data is normalized to create the content rank.

16 . The system of claim 15 , further comprising a hook component that allows at least one search component to latch into the rank component to enable access to the generated content rank.

17 . A computer-implemented method that facilitates providing query results in an objective manner, comprising:

receiving query data related to a portion of content; and

creating a content rank based on a quantitative measurement for an objective evaluation of content.

18 . The method of claim 17 , the content relates to at least one of a book, a magazine, a newspaper, an article, a periodical, a comic book, a literary work, a written work, a newspaper article, a magazine article, a newspaper article, a portion of literature, a poem, a manual, a portion of data associated with literature, a portion of media, a portion of music, a movie, a portion of a movie, a video, a portion of video, and a portion of data that is queried.

19 . The method of claim 17 , the quantitative measurement is at least one of a number of web pages that mention the content, a measured importance of web pages that mention the content, a number of library holdings for the content, a library circulation number for the content, sales data for the content, a peer group review of the content, a peer group rating for the content, a popularity determination correlating to a sect of users, a number of residual works, a number of related works, a number of unique institutional holdings, a number of reviews, a number of creative entity holdings, a creative entity circulation number, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity web mentions, a creative entity sales statistics, a creative entity mentioned in book indices, a relationship with a particular creative entity, a newsgroup opinion, a forum opinion, and an incoming link to content.

20 . A computer-implemented system that facilitates querying data, comprising:

means for receiving data related to querying content; and

means for employing a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2015
From: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
To: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Reel/Frame 034766/0509 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 10, 2007
From: SUPONAU, DZMITRY; BURNS, ERIC L.; KAPLANIAN, HARRY; GIROTTO, JAY R.; BUSCHMAN, JON MICHAEL; SU, PHILIP TI-FEI; LIU, YUE; JOHNSON-MORRIS, ZARAH
To: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018739/0652 →