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 search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space;
in response to accepting the search criteria from the user, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the search criteria from the user, each location having associated cartographic display attributes;
displaying on the display device a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier, the visual representation of the domain having an average spatial scale;
selecting a subset of the set of document-location tuples based on the cartographic display attributes and on the average spatial scale of the visual representation of the domain; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the selected subset 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 to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space; in response to accepting the search criteria from the user, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the search criteria from the user, each location having associated cartographic display attributes; displaying a visual representation of the domain having an average spatial scale; selecting a subset of the set of document-location tuples based on the cartographic display attributes and on the average spatial scale of the visual representation of the domain; and displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the selected subset of document-location tuples.
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12 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 search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space;
in response to accepting the search criteria from the user, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the search criteria from the user, each location having associated cartographic display attributes;
displaying on the display device a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier, the visual representation of the domain having an average spatial scale;
selecting a subset of the set of document-location tuples based on the cartographic display attributes and on the average spatial scale of the visual representation of the domain; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the selected subset of document-location tuples. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of displaying information about document-location tuples, the method comprising:
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accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space;
in response to accepting the search criteria from the user, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the search criteria from the user, each location having associated cartographic display attributes;
displaying a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier, the visual representation of the domain having an average spatial scale;
selecting a subset of the set of document-location tuples based on the cartographic display attributes and on the average spatial scale of the visual representation of the domain; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the selected subset of document-location tuples. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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