INDEXING AND SEARCHING DYNAMICALLY CHANGING SEARCH CORPORA Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G06F17/30 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for searching documents. The method includes presenting a user interface for associating share permissions with various documents from an online document repository, specifying a type for each uploaded document and defining a search volume for the uploaded documents, presenting ranking means for ranking search results obtained in a specific search volume, the ranking means controlling display of the found documents, receiving, through the user interface, a representation of a search term and a selection specifying the search volume, receiving ranking preferences through the ranking means, sending a search request to the online document repository, wherein the search request includes representations of a user identifier, the search term, the ranking preferences and the plurality of search volumes, receiving ranked search results from the document repository in response to the search request, the ranked search results comprising representations of any occurrences of the search term within documents in the document repository that have been filtered based on the user identifier and the search volumes and ranked based upon the ranking preferences.

EFFECT: high efficiency of searching documents.

11 cl, 10 dwg