USER INTERFACE AND METHOD IN A LOCAL SEARCH SYSTEM WITH STATIC LOCATION MARKERS

• US 20090132646A1
• 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:
  US11/941,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132646A1
• 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

A user interface includes a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a map and a search identifier. A second view transmitted from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system includes a map and the information relating to the geographic location of the first search request may be used to indicate the geographic location on the map of the second view, wherein the second view includes at least a first static location marker on the map of the second view at a first fixed location due to selection of a location marker at the first fixed location on the map of the first view.

Claims

1. A user interface, comprising:

a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a map and a search identifier, a user interacting with the search identifier of the first view causing transmission of at least a first search request from the client computer system to the server computer system, the first search request being utilized at the server computer system to extract at least a first search result from a search data source, the first search result including information relating to a geographic location; 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 a map and the information relating to the geographic location of the first search request is used to indicate the geographic location on the map of the second view, wherein the second view includes at least a first static location marker on the map of the second view at a first fixed location due to selection of a location marker at the first fixed location on the map of the first view.

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

receiving at least a first static location marking a request from the client computer system at the server computer system due to the selection of the location marker at the second fixed location on the map of the second view; and

in response to the second static location marking request, placing the second static location marker on the map of the second view.

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

receiving at least a second search request from a client computer system at a server computer system;

utilizing the second search request at the server computer system to extract at least a second search result from a search data source, the second search result including information relating to a geographic location; and

transmitting at least part of a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the third view includes a map and the information relating to the geographic location of the second search request is used to indicate the geographic location on the map of the third view, wherein the third view includes at least the first static location marker at the first fixed location on the map of the third view and at least a second static location marker on the map of the third view at a second fixed location due to selection of a location marker at the second fixed location on a map of a prior view.

4. The user interface of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving at least a second static location marking a request from the client computer system at the server computer system due to the selection of the location marker at the second fixed location on the map of the second view; and

in response to the second static location marking request, placing the second static location marker on the map of the second view.

5. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the first static location marker has a label that is the same in the second and third views and the second location marker has a label that is different from the label of the first static location marker in the third view.

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

transmitting a preliminary view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the preliminary view including search identifier;

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

utilizing the preliminary search request at the server computer system to extract at least a preliminary search result from a search data source, the preliminary search result including information relating to a geographic location, wherein the geographic location of the preliminary search result is used to place the marker that is selected on the map of the first view.

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

18. The method of claim 6, 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.

8. 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 map and a search identifier;

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

utilizing the first search request at the server computer system to extract at least a first search result from a search data source, the first 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 a map and the information relating to the geographic location of the first search request is used to indicate the geographic location on the map of the second view, wherein the second view includes at least a first static location marker on the map of the second view at a first fixed location due to selection of a location marker at the first fixed location on the map of the first view.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving at least a first static location marking a request from the client computer system at the server computer system due to the selection of the location marker at the second fixed location on the map of the second view; and

in response to the second static location marking request, placing the second static location marker on the map of the second view.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving at least a second search request from a client computer system at a server computer system;

utilizing the second search request at the server computer system to extract at least a second search result from a search data source, the second search result including information relating to a geographic location; and

transmitting at least part of a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the third view includes a map and the information relating to the geographic location of the second search request is used to indicate the geographic location on the map of the third view, wherein the third view includes at least the first static location marker at the first fixed location on the map of the third view and at least a second static location marker on the map of the third view at a second fixed location due to selection of a location marker at the second fixed location on a map of a prior view.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving at least a second static location marking a request from the client computer system at the server computer system due to the selection of the location marker at the second fixed location on the map of the second view; and

in response to the second static location marking request, placing the second static location marker on the map of the second view.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first static location marker has a label that is the same in the second and third views and the second location marker has a label that is different from the label of the first static location marker in the third view.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

transmitting a preliminary view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the preliminary view including search identifier;

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

utilizing the preliminary search request at the server computer system to extract at least a preliminary search result from a search data source, the preliminary search result including information relating to a geographic location, wherein the geographic location of the preliminary search result is used to place the marker that is selected on the map of the first view.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the information relating to the geographic location includes an address.

15. The method of claim 8, 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.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the request includes an area and a boundary of the area is displayed on the map.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein the view is configured to make an addition to the map.

19. The method of claim 8, 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.

20. The method of claim 8, wherein the second view includes at least one component that is in substantially the same location as in the first view.

21. The method of claim 8, 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.

22. The method of claim 8, 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.

23. The method of claim 8, wherein the search request is used to extract a plurality of related search suggestions and the second view includes the plurality of related search identifiers, selection of a respective related search identifier causing transmission of a related search request from the client computer system to the server computer system.

24. The method of claim 8, wherein the first view includes a location identifier, 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, causing at least one of the search results to be based on the selected location.

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 map and a search identifier;

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

utilizing the first search request at the server computer system to extract at least a first search result from a search data source, the first 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 a map and the information relating to the geographic location of the first search request is used to indicate the geographic location on the map of the second view, wherein the second view includes at least a first static location marker on the map of the second view at a first fixed location due to selection of a location marker at the first fixed location on the map of the first view.