DISPLAY OF SEARCH-ENGINE RESULTS AND LIST

• US 20080306933A1
• Filed: 06/08/2007
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: AGRAWAL, NITIN, NAAM, RAMEZ, JHAVERI, VIVEK J., WANG, LEI, VALLIANI, JAMIL, LI, YESHENG, LOUVAU, DARINEE, SEIDMAN, EYTAN D., CHEN, DEQING
• Application Number:
  US11/760,492
• Publication Number:
  US 20080306933A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Displaying a list of search-engine results in the same web-browser window as a viewing frame that is configured to display one of the results is described herein. A user'"'"'s web search is performed on a search engine, and results are returned to a client computing device. The results are listed in a web-browser window that is configured to simultaneously display any result selected by a user.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface embodied on a computer-readable medium and executable on a computer, said graphical user interface comprising:

a first display area configured for displaying a list of one or more results of a search-engine query; and

a second display area configured for displaying a viewing frame that is configured to present a web resource associated with one of the one or more results of the search-engine query that has been selected by a user.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the search-engine query includes an indication originated by a user to focus the query on information associated with a particular type of web resource.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 2, wherein the particular type of web resource includes at least one of news, blogs, web feeds, or online spaces.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the first display area is configured to display one or more icons that, when selected by the user, retrieves and displays a result in a separate web-browser window.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the viewing frame is created by implementing a “

frameset”

tag in hypertext markup language.

6. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a third display area configured for displaying a text field that a user can enter one or more keywords for submission to a search engine.

7. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the web resource is a news article.

8. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the web resource is a web page.

9. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the web resource comprises at least one of an audio clip, video clip, or image.

10. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a third display area configured for filtering the list of one or more results of the search-engine query so only results meeting a particular criteria are displayed.

11. In a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a user-interface selection device, a method for presenting a list of one or more results of a search-engine query in the same web-browser window as a viewing frame configured to present a web resource related to the one or more results, comprising:

submitting the search-engine query;

receiving the one or more results, wherein the one or more results include at least one hyperlink;

presenting the one or more results in a web page, wherein the web page comprises an area for displaying the list of one or more results of the search-engine query and a viewing frame for displaying a retrieved web page (306);

determining whether a user selects a result; and

incident to the user selecting the result, presenting a web resource associated with the result in the viewing frame.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving an indication to open the result in a new web-browser window.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the indication is a user selection of an icon positioned adjacent to the result.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the results page includes one or more icons configured to, when selected by the user, retrieve an associated web resource and display the associated web resource in a new web-browser window.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the search-engine query comprises keywords associated with online news articles.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising filtering the one or more results of the search-engine query by a criteria selected by a user.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the criteria include blogs.

18. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for presenting a list of one or more results of a search-engine query for news articles in the same web-browser window as a viewing frame configured to present a web resource related to the one or more results, comprising:

receiving the one or more results, wherein the one or more results include at least one hyperlink; and

presenting a web resource associated with the one or more results in a viewing frame of a web page, wherein the web page presents the viewing frame in the same web-browser window as the list of one or more results.

19. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 18, wherein each of the one or more results are displayed on the web page next to one or more icons that, when selected by the user, will initiate the display of one or more web resources in a new web-browser window.

20. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 18, further comprising applying an indication to one of the one or more results selected by a user.