%0 Journal Article %T Ranking Patents for Better Search Capabilities %A Mihai VLASE %A Dan MUNTEANU %J Annals of Dunarea de Jos %D 2009 %I Universitatea Dunarea de Jos %X The continuous increasing number of patents worldwide makes the searchingin these vast databases a real challenge. In the present paper we present a method, basedon a computed rank that attempts to order the patents by a relevant order transforming along list of hundreds of search results into a list ordered by relevance. %K database %K search %K rank %K patents %K citations %U http://www.ann.ugal.ro/eeai/archives/2009/Lucrare-6-MVlase-p29-32.pdf