Grumpus - 4:48 pm on Feb 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

If you look at the bottom as they outline how the technology is delivered, that LR (Local Rank) IS calculated on the fly.

12. A system comprising: a server connected to a network, the server receiving search queries from users via the network, the server including: at least one processor; a database of a corpus; and a memory operatively coupled to the processor, the memory storing program instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: generate an initial list of relevant documents from the corpus based on a matching of terms in the search query to the corpus, rank the generated list of documents to obtain a relevance score value for each document in the generated list of documents, calculate a local score value for the documents in the generated list, the local score value quantifying an amount that the documents are referenced by other documents in the generated list of documents, and refine the relevance score values for the documents in the generated list based on the local score values.

G.