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, dividing the domain identified by the domain identifier into a plurality of subdomains within the domain, and obtaining a plurality of subdomain identifiers identifying the corresponding subdomains;
for each subdomain identifier, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the free-text query and the subdomain identifier;
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 document-location tuples obtained for one or more of the subdomain identifiers.
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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 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 plurality of sets of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the free-text query and a subdomain identifier identifying a subdomain within the identified domain; 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 document-location tuples.
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24 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, dividing the domain identified by the domain identifier into a plurality of subdomains within the domain, and obtaining a plurality of subdomain identifiers identifying the corresponding subdomains;
for each subdomain identifier, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the free-text query and the subdomain identifier;
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 document-location tuples obtained for one or more of the subdomain identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. 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 plurality of sets of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the free-text query and a subdomain identifier identifying a subdomain within the identified domain;
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 document-location tuples. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. 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, dividing the domain identified by the domain identifier into a plurality of subdomains within the domain, and obtaining a plurality of subdomain identifiers identifying the corresponding subdomains;
for each subdomain identifier, obtaining a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the free-text query and the subdomain identifier;
displaying a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the document-location tuples obtained for one or more of the subdomain identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. 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 plurality of sets of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, each document-location tuple satisfying the free-text query and a subdomain identifier identifying a subdomain within the identified domain;
displaying a visual representation of the domain identified by the domain identifier; and
displaying a plurality of visual indicators representing the document-location tuples. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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