Patent attributes
A method of processing information related to documents in a collection of linked documents. For each respective document in all or a portion of said collection, one or more auxiliary page ranking vectors associated with the respective document are quantized. A search query comprising one or more search terms is received. Using a document index that represents said collection of linked documents, a plurality of documents is identified. Each document in the identified plurality of documents includes at least one term that matches a search term in the search query. For one or more respective documents in the plurality of documents, one or more of the auxiliary page ranking vectors associated with the respective document are decoded. The plurality of documents are then ranked using the decoded auxiliary page vectors.
