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Conducting search sessions utilizing navigation patterns

  • US 10,331,686 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 06/25/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented system for conducting search sessions utilizing navigation patterns, comprising:

  • one or more computing devices, each having a processor coupled to one or more memory storage devices, operate to;

    automatically record, in the one or more memory storage devices, a navigation pattern that is included in at least one prior search session for a search term of a particular type, wherein the navigation pattern comprises a series of searches that are related to a same entity in the at least one prior search session, the series of searches being conducted from a user computing device;

    receive, over a computer network and from the user computing device, a new search query generated from a user interface of the user computing device, the new search query having at least one search term of the particular type;

    automatically follow the navigation pattern of the at least one prior search session by conducting the series of searches related to the same entity in a subsequent search session utilizing the at least one search term; and

    in response to the following of the navigation pattern, simultaneously, cause display, over the computer network, of a plurality of search results in the subsequent search session to a display device of the user computing device as search results from a single search when viewed from the user'"'"'s perspective, wherein the plurality of displayed search results comprises search results from at least two different searches of the series of searches conducted in the at least one prior search session.

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