USER INTERFACE AND METHOD IN A LOCAL SEARCH SYSTEM WITH PROFILE PAGE

• US 20090132572A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Massie, William Ryan, Reed, William Edward JR., Yang, Yue Rona
• Application Number:
  US11/941,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132572A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

The invention provides a user interface including a profile page displayed independent of a search identifier that the user interacts with.

Claims

1. A user interface, comprising:

a profile page;

a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a plurality of vertical search determinators, selection of a respective vertical search determinator causing the display of a respective search identifier associated with the respective vertical search determinator, a user interacting with one of the search identifiers causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system at the server computer system, the search request being utilized at the server computer system to extract at least one search result, including information relating to a geographic location, from a search data source; and

a second view, at least part of which is transmitted 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 and display of the profile page independent of the search identifier that the user interacts with.

2. The user interface of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a profile page request from the client computer system at the server computer system; and

in response to the profile page request, transmitting the profile page from the server computer system to the client computer system.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the profile page includes a name and detailed objects of the search result.

4. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the detailed objects include an image.

5. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the detailed objects include text.

6. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the vertical selected by the user is displayed when the profile page is displayed.

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:

storing a profile page;

transmitting a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a plurality of vertical search determinators, selection of a respective vertical search determinator causing the display of a respective search identifier associated with the respective vertical search determinator;

in response to a user interacting with one of the search identifiers, 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, including information relating to a geographic location, from a search data source; 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 and display of the profile page independent of the search identifier that the user interacts with.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a profile page request from the client computer system at the server computer system; and

in response to the profile page request, transmitting the profile page from the server computer system to the client computer system.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the profile page includes a name and detailed objects of the search result.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the detailed objects include an image.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the detailed objects include text.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the vertical selected by the user is displayed when the profile page is displayed.

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 the 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, 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. The method of claim 9, wherein the first view includes a plurality of vertical search determinators, wherein the search result depends on a respective one of the vertical search determinators.

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:

storing a profile page;

transmitting a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a plurality of vertical search determinators, selection of a respective vertical search determinator causing the display of a respective search identifier associated with the respective vertical search determinator;

in response to a user interacting with one of the search identifiers, 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, including information relating to a geographic location, from a search data source; 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 and display of the profile page independent of the search identifier that the user interacts with.