METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SEARCHING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO WEB-SEARCHABLE DOCUMENTS BASED ON KEYWORD ANALYSIS

摘要

Web-searchable documents are made accessible to user based on user relations to the document owner. In response to an Internet search query from a user including at least one search term, a document in a search index of documents is analyzed. Keywords within the document are assigned group priority ratings. The group priority ratings are indicative of groups of users that the document owner is willing to share documents with. The group ratings may be assigned by the document owner based, for example, on the sensitivity of personal nature of the keywords. The user's relation rating to an owner of the document is determined, and the search term in the query is compared only to those indexed keywords within the document that have a group priority rating that is less than or equal to the user's relation rating to the owner of the document. An overall document ranking may be determined based on the comparison of the search term to the indexed keywords. The steps of analyzing, determining, comparing, and determining an overall document ranking may be repeated as long as there are documents in the search index. An abstract is constructed including keywords with a group priority rating less than or equal to the user's relation rating and presented to the user. The abstract may include documents with the highest document rankings. A request may be received from the user for a document based on the abstract, either for a private document or a public document. If the request is for a public document, the document is presented to the user. If the request if for a private document, it may be presented in the user if the user has been granted viewing rights. If the user has not been granted viewing rights, the user may be redirected to submit a document request form.