USER INTERFACE AND METHOD IN A LOCAL SEARCH SYSTEM WITH RELATED SEARCH RESULTS

• US 20090132644A1
• 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: Jouline, Anton V., Frishert, Michiel, Massie, William Ryan, Reed, William Edward JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,145,703 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

The invention provides a user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, interaction with the search identifier causing of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system, the search request being utilized at the server computer system to extract at least an initial search result from a search data source, the initial search result including information relating to a geographic location to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, and a second view transmitted from the server computer system in response to the user interacting with the search identifier, the second view including the initial search result and the plurality of related search suggestions.

Claims

1. A user interface, comprising:

a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, interaction with the search identifier causing of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system, the search request being utilized at the server computer system to extract at least an initial search result from a search data source, the initial search result including information relating to a geographic location to the client computer system for display at the client computer system; and

a second view, at least part of which is transmitted from the server computer system in response to the user interacting with the search identifier, the second view including the initial search result and the plurality of related search suggestions, selection of a respective related search suggestion causing transmission of a related search request from the client computer system to the server computer system.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the related search request is utilized at the server computer system to extract at least one subsequent search result and at least part of a third view is transmitted from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including the subsequent search result.

3. The user interface of claim 2, wherein a plurality of initial search results are extracted and included in the second view and a plurality of subsequent search results are extracted and included in the third view.

4. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the second view includes a plurality of context identifiers, a plurality of the related search suggestions being associated with each context identifier.

5. The user interface of claim 4, 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.

6. The user interface of claim 4, wherein a second context identifier is displayed in the second view if the search result depends on the second one of the vertical search determinators and the second context identifier does not appear in the second view if the search result depends on the first one of the vertical search determinators.

7. The user interface of claim 4, wherein the context identifiers include at least one of category, neighborhood, genre, and venue.

8. The user interface of claim 7, wherein the context identifiers include at least two of category, neighborhood, genre, and venue.

9. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the related search suggestions are neighborhoods other than a neighborhood of the initial search result but in the same city as a city of the initial search result.

10. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the initial search result has a plurality of categories and the related search suggestions are the categories.

11. The user interface of claim 10, wherein the categories are all one of restaurant type and movie genre.

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

13. 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.

14. 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;

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

utilizing the initial search request at the server computer system to extract at least one initial search result and a plurality of related search suggestions from at least one search data source, the initial search result including information relating to a geographic 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 initial search result and the plurality of related search suggestions, selection of a respective related search suggestion causing transmission of a related search request from the client computer system to the server computer system.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

utilizing the related search request at the server computer system to extract at least one subsequent 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 subsequent search result.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein a plurality of initial search results are extracted and included in the second view and a plurality of subsequent search results are extracted and included in the third view.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the second view includes a plurality of context identifiers, a plurality of the related search suggestions being associated with each context identifier.

18. The method of claim 17, 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.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein a second context identifier is displayed in the second view if the search result depends on the second one of the vertical search determinators and the second context identifier does not appear in the second view if the search result depends on the first one of the vertical search determinators.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the context identifiers include at least one of category, neighborhood, genre, and venue.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the context identifiers include at least two of category, neighborhood, genre, and venue.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the related search suggestions are neighborhoods other than a neighborhood of the initial search result but in the same city as a city of the initial search result.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the initial search result has a plurality of categories and the related search suggestions are the categories.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the categories are all one of restaurant type and movie genre.

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;

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

utilizing the initial search request at the server computer system to extract at least one initial search result and a plurality of related search suggestions from at least one search data source, the initial search result including information relating to a geographic 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 initial search result and the plurality of related search suggestions, selection of a respective related search suggestion causing transmission of a related search request from the client computer system to the server computer system.