2. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the re-ranking module is further adapted to generate for each of the first set of candidate patent documents a set of feature scores associated with the set of patent features, the re-ranking module being adapted to re-rank to generate the second set of ranked patent documents based at least in part on the set of feature scores.
2. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the re-ranking module is further adapted to generate for each of the first set of candidate patent documents a set of feature scores associated with the set of patent features, the re-ranking module being adapted to re-rank to generate the second set of ranked patent documents based at least in part on the set of feature scores. 3. The computer-based system of claim 2 , wherein the re-ranking module is further adapted to generate for each of the first set of candidate patent documents a collective score derived at least in part from a set of feature scores, the re-ranking module being adapted to re-rank to generate the second set of ranked patent documents based at least in part on the collective score associated with each patent in the first set of candidate patent documents.