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Displaying stylized text snippets with search engine results

  • US 10,311,114 B2
  • Filed: 11/03/2014
  • Issued: 06/04/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving a search query from a client device, the search query including one or more terms;

    identifying a plurality of web-addressable documents responsive to the search query, wherein each of the web-addressable documents is hosted by a web server and is stored at a web-addressable location accessible to the client device;

    for at least one of the plurality of web-addressable documents;

    accessing a text index that is associated with the web-addressable document and that stores, for each of a plurality of portions of text from the web-addressable document, a respective style identifier;

    retrieving, from the text index, a portion of text from the web-addressable document that includes at least one of the one or more terms of the search query, and retrieving a style identifier that is associated with the retrieved portion of text;

    accessing a style index that stores, for each of a plurality of style identifiers associated with portions of text from the plurality of web-addressable documents, respective style information for stylizing text, and matching the style identifier that is associated with the retrieved portion of text from the web-addressable document with a corresponding entry in the style index;

    retrieving, from the style index, style information associated with the retrieved portion of text from the web-addressable document, wherein the style information is defined within the web-addressable document and specifies display formatting for the retrieved portion of text within the web-addressable document for presentation by a web browser of the client device when the web-addressable document is displayed by the web browser at the client device;

    determining that the retrieved style information is to be applied to the retrieved portion of text; and

    stylizing a portion of text from the web-addressable document, including applying the retrieved style information to the retrieved portion of text from the web-addressable document; and

    providing, to the client device for presentation by the web browser, a stylized list of items corresponding to at least a portion of the identified plurality of web-addressable documents responsive to the search query, each item in the stylized list being a search result that includes a hyperlink to a corresponding web-addressable document and that includes a stylized portion of text from the web-addressable document, wherein the stylized portion of text is displayed in the item in the stylized list according to the style information that specifies the display formatting for the retrieved portion of text within the web-addressable document, such that the stylized portion of text has a same appearance as a corresponding portion of text retrieved from the web-addressable document.

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