Method for node ranking in a linked database
Inventor: Lawrence Page
Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
US Patent 7,058,628
Granted June 6, 2006
Filed July 2, 2001

Abstract

A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the performance of search engine results for hypermedia databases, such as the world wide web, whose documents have a large variation in quality.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates generally to techniques for analyzing linked databases. More particularly, it relates to methods for assigning ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database.
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