Web page with tabbed display regions for displaying search results

• US 20060248061A1
• Filed: 10/20/2005
• Published: 11/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carhamm Limited LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Carhamm Limited LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Kulakow, Arthur J., Silverberg, Marc E., Wray, Kevin J.
• Application Number:
  US11/254,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20060248061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Search results from two different searches are displayed in separate regions of a single window. The separate regions may be tabbed display regions of a single search results web page, for example. An end-user may perform a first Internet search using a first keyword, with a corresponding first set of search results being displayed in a first tabbed display region. The end-user may perform a second Internet search using a second keyword, with a corresponding second set of search results being displayed in a second tabbed display region. The end-user may perform subsequent Internet searches (e.g. to refine the first and second searches or to perform a different search), with corresponding search results being displayed in separate tabbed display regions of the same search results web page.

Claims

1. A web page comprising:

a first tabbed display region containing a first set of search results for a first Internet search, the first set of search results being responsive to a first keyword, the first tabbed display region having an associated first tab configured to be selected by an end-user to display the first set of search results, the first tab displaying the first keyword;

a second tabbed display region containing a second set of search results for a second Internet search, the second set of search results being responsive to a second keyword different from the first keyword, the second tabbed display region having an associated second tab configured to be selected by the end-user to display the second set of search results, the second tab displaying the second keyword, the second tabbed display region being configured to be displayed over the first tabbed display region when the second tab is selected by the end-user, the first tabbed display region being configured to be displayed over the second tabbed display region when the first tab is selected by the end-user;

wherein the first and second tabbed display regions are on a same web page and both the first and second tabs are visible to the end-user at the same time.

2. The web page of claim 1 further comprising a provision for e-mailing a single search result selected from the first and second sets of search results.

3. The web page of claim 2 wherein the provision for e-mailing the single search result comprises:

an e-mail address entry field for entering one or more e-mail addresses; and

a send button for e-mailing the single search result to an e-mail address entered in the e-mail address entry field.

4. The web page of claim 1 wherein the first tab includes a close icon for closing the first tabbed display region and the second tab includes a close icon for closing the second tabbed display region.

5. A method of providing search results to an end-user, the method comprising:

including a first set of search results in a first tabbed display region of a particular web page, the first set of search results being responsive to an Internet search using a first keyword, the first tabbed display region having an associated first tab;

including a second set of search results in a second tabbed display region of the particular web page, the second set of search results being responsive to an Internet search using a second keyword, the second tabbed display region having an associated second tab, the first tab and the second tab being visible at the same time to an end-user; and

displaying the first set of search results over the second set of search results when an end-user selects the first tab.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the first tab displays the first keyword and the second tab displays the second keyword.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

e-mailing a search result selected by the end-user from the first set of search results.

8. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

generating a compilation of search results to be e-mailed, the compilation of search results comprising search results selected by the end-user from the first and second sets of search results.

9. The method of claim 5 wherein the first tab displays an icon for closing the first tabbed display region and the second tab displays an icon for closing the second tabbed display region.

10. A web page comprising:

a keyword entry field for entering a keyword for performing an Internet search;

a first tab associated with a first tabbed display region, the fist tabbed display region including a first set of search results responsive to a first keyword entered by an end-user in the keyword entry field;

a second tab associated with a second tabbed display region, the second tabbed display region including a second set of search results responsive to a second keyword entered by the end-user in the keyword entry field, the first tab configured to be selectable by the end-user to display the first tabbed display region over the second tabbed display region, the second tab configured to be selectable by the end-user to display the second tabbed display region over the first tabbed display region; and

wherein the first and second tabbed display regions are on a same web page and both the first and second tabs are visible to the end-user at a same time.

11. The web page of claim 10 further comprising a provision for e-mailing selected search results from the first and second sets of search results.

12. The web page of claim 11 wherein the provision for e-mailing the selected search results comprises:

an e-mail address entry field for entering one or more e-mail addresses; and

a send button for e-mailing the selected search results to e-mail addresses entered in the e-mail address entry field.

13. The web page of claim 10 wherein the first tab displays the first keyword.

14. The web page of claim 10 further comprising a compilation display region for displaying a compilation of search results selected by the end-user from the first and second sets of search results.