NZ597932A - Method, system, and apparatus for delivering query results from an electronic document collection - Google Patents

Abstract

A computer implemented method and a system for assigning relevancy to results of a search on an electronic document collection. The system comprises a processor in communication with memory and storage media; a collection of intellectual property documents retained on the storage media; a director in communication with the processor, a document manager in communication with the director, a profile manager, in communication with the document manager, a query manager, and a relevancy navigator in communication with the query manager. Each of the documents in the collection has multiple sections and the director compiles and indexes the collection of documents. The document manager identifies each section of each document in the collection and the profile manager organizes a search profile for the document collection. The search profile includes a selection of at least one of the identified sections of each document in the compiled collection. The profile manager assigns a weight to each of the identified and selected section with the organized search profile. At query time, the query manager submits a query to the document collection. The query includes selection of at least one search profile and comparison of query data with data in each of the document sections of the selected profile in the collection having an assigned weight. The query results in a compilation of relevant documents generated from the query submission and returned from the query manager, with each document having a match of the query to data in at least one identified profile section having an assigned weight and a relevancy score. The relevancy navigator ranks the documents in the compilation based upon the relevancy score and dynamically limits results in the compilation based upon the rank. The first compilation of sorted relevant documents is based upon the dynamic limit application to the compilation.