USER INTERFACE AND METHOD IN A LOCAL SEARCH SYSTEM WITH LOCATION IDENTIFICATION IN A REQUEST

• US 20090132511A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Reed, William Edward JR., Jouline, Anton V., Massie, William Ryan, Yang, Yue Rona
• Granted Patent: US 8,090,714 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier. Selection of the search identifier causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system and interaction with the location identifier causing transmission of a selected location from the client computer system to the server computer system.

Claims

1. A user interface, comprising:

a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier selection of the search identifier causing transmission of a search request form the client computer system to the server computer system and interaction with the location identifier causing transmission of a selected location from the client computer system to the server computer system; and

a second view, at least part of which is transmitted from the server computer system to the client computer system in response to a user interacting with the search identifier, the search request and the location being utilized to extract at least one search result form a search data source and displayed in the second view, the search result including information relating to a geographic location, the search result being based on the selected location.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the location identifier includes a field for entering text, the selected location being the text.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the geographic location of the search result is in an area represented by the selected location.

4. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the selected location is a neighborhood.

5. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the geographic location of the search result is near the selected location.

6. The user interface of claim 5, wherein the selected location is one of a street and a point of interest.

7. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the information relating to the geographic location includes an address.

8. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the second view includes a map and the information relating to the geographic location is used to indicate the geographic location on the map.

9. A method of interfacing with a client computer system, comprising:

transmitting a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier;

in response to a user interacting with the search identifier, receiving a search request from a client computer system at the server computer system;

utilizing the search request at the server computer system to extract at least one search result from a search data source, the search result including information relating to a geographic location, a selected location being transmitted from the client computer system to the server computer system due to interaction of the user with the location identifier, the search result being based on the selected location; and

transmitting at least part of a second view from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the second view includes the search result.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the location identifier includes a field for entering text, the selected location being the text.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the geographic location of the search result is in an area represented by the selected location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the selected location is a neighborhood.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the geographic location of the search result is near the selected location.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the selected location is one of a street and a point of interest.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the information relating to the geographic location includes an address.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the second view includes a map and the information relating to the geographic location is used to indicate the geographic location on the map.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein a plurality of search results is transmitted, each including information relating to a different geographic location, wherein information relating to a respective one of the search results is displayed on the map upon selection of at least one component of the respective search result.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the search request includes an area and a boundary of the area is displayed on the map.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the view is configured to make an addition to the map.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the first view includes a map and the second view includes at least a first static location marker at a first fixed location on the map of the second view due to selection of a location marker at the fixed location on the map of the first view.

21. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing a profile page, wherein the first view includes a plurality of verticals, selection of a respective vertical causing the display of a respective search identifier associated with the respective vertical, the search request received from a client computer system at the server computer system being in response to the user interacting with one of the search identifiers, and display of the profile page independent of the search identifier that the user interacts with.

22. The method of claim 9, wherein a plurality of search results is extracted and included in the second view, further comprising:

receiving a driving direction request relating to a select one of the search results from the client computer system at the server computer system;

in response to the driving direction request, calculating driving directions to the selected search result; and

transmitting at least part of a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including the driving directions to the selected search result and at least one of the search results other than the selected search result.

23. The method of claim 9, wherein the second view includes at least one component that is in substantially the same location as in the first view.

24. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

transmitting a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including a reproduction selector; and

in response to a reproduction command transmitted from the client computer system to the server computer system upon selection of the reproduction selector, transmitting a fourth view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the fourth view including the search result included in the second view.

25. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of at least one computer, executes a method comprising:

transmitting a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier;

in response to a user interacting with the search identifier, receiving a search request from a client computer system at the server computer system;

utilizing the search request at the server computer system to extract at least one search result from a search data source, the search result including information relating to a geographic location, a selected location being transmitted from the client computer system to the server computer system due to interaction of the user with the location identifier, the search result being based on the selected location; and

transmitting at least part of a second view from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the second view includes the search result.