Indication of exclusive items in a result set

• US 20070100797A1
• Filed: 10/31/2005
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ciemiewicz, David, Karmirantzos, Apostolos, Simpson, David, Schectman, Hal, Thun, Christopher, Lee, Tony, Reinhold, James, Makris, Gregory, Freeman, Jackie
• Granted Patent: US 7,747,612 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957

Abstract

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises generating a primary result set and a secondary result set, the primary result set and secondary result set generated according to one or more respective disparate search algorithms. A difference result set is determined according to a difference between items in the primary result set and second result set, which is displayed to a user.

Claims

8-1. The method of claim 1 comprising eliciting feedback from a user regarding the selection of the exclusive item.

9-2. The method of claim 8 wherein eliciting feedback comprises recording the selection of the exclusive item.