| US 7,502,789 B2 | ||
| Identifying important news reports from news home pages | ||
| Jinyi Yao, Beijing (China); Ming Jing Li, Beijing (China); Wei-Ying Ma, Beijing (China); and Zhiwei Li, Beijing (China) | ||
| Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 15, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/303,443. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0143279 A1, Jun. 21, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—7 [707/1; 707/2; 707/3; 707/6; 707/10] | 24 Claims |
| 1. A computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for controlling a computing device to determine importance of
news events, by a method comprising:
crawling news home pages of web sites to identify news reports reporting news events;
calculating importance weights of the identified news reports reporting news events based on credibility of the crawled news
home pages, the credibility of a news home page based on the importance weights of news reports that are referenced by the
news home page, the calculating of the importance weight including calculating a credibility weight of each news home page
based on importance weights of news reports reported by a news home page and the importance weight of each news report based
on the credibility weight of the news home page that reports the news report, wherein the importance weight of a news report
is defined recursively based on the credibility weight of the news home page that reports the news report and the credibility
weight of a news home page is defined recursively based on the importance weight of the news reports that it reports; and
identifying the importance of a news event is based on importance weight of news reports reporting the news event.
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