SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING RESULTS OF GEOGRAPHIC TEXT SEARCHES
First Claim
1. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of:
- accepting an initialization request from a user to initialize an interface with a location-related search engine;
in response to accepting the initialization request from the user, obtaining illustrative search criteria based on a location-related search performed by a prior user interfacing with the location-related search engine, the illustrative search criteria comprising a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space;
obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the illustrative search criteria;
displaying on the display device a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the set of document-location tuples.
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Abstract
Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: accepting an initialization request from a user to initialize an interface with a location-related search engine; in response to accepting the initialization request from the user, obtaining illustrative search criteria based on a location-related search performed by a prior user interfacing with the location-related search engine, the illustrative search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space; obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the illustrative search criteria; displaying on the display device a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier; and displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the set of document-location tuples.
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30 Claims
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1. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of:
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accepting an initialization request from a user to initialize an interface with a location-related search engine;
in response to accepting the initialization request from the user, obtaining illustrative search criteria based on a location-related search performed by a prior user interfacing with the location-related search engine, the illustrative search criteria comprising a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space;
obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the illustrative search criteria;
displaying on the display device a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the set of document-location tuples. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of displaying information about document-location tuples, the method comprising:
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accepting an initialization request from a user to initialize an interface with a location-related search engine;
in response to accepting the initialization request from the user, obtaining illustrative search criteria based on a location-related search performed by a prior user interfacing with the location-related search engine, the illustrative search criteria comprising a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space;
obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the illustrative search criteria;
displaying a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the set of document-location tuples. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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