# Lawrence Page — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Lawrence Page has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Websites Get Ranked by Importance](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/6285999/google-pagerank) — granted 2001
  This patent describes a computer method for scoring documents in a linked database, like the internet, by considering the importance of other documents that link to them, helping search engines find better results.

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