USER INTERFACE AND METHOD IN LOCAL SEARCH SYSTEM WITH VERTICAL SEARCH RESULTS AND AN INTERACTIVE MAP

• US 20090132953A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (IAC/InterActiveCorp)
• Original Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (IAC/InterActiveCorp)
• Inventors: Massie, William Ryan, Reed, William Edward JR., Leeds, Doug, Yang, Yue Rona
• Application Number:
  US11/941,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132953A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A user interface is described wherein information relating to a respective one of the search results are displayed on a map upon selection of at least one component of the respective search result.

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; and

a second view, at least part of which is transmitted from the server computer system in response to a user interacting with the search identifier and thereby transmitting 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 a plurality of search results from a search data source, each search result including information relating to a geographic location 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 locations is used to indicate the geographic locations on the map, 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.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the component of the respective search result is not located on the map.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the component of the respective search result is a name of the search result.

4. The user interface of claim 1, wherein detailed objects of the respective search result are displayed at a location outside the map upon selection of the component of the respective search result.

5. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the detailed objects include an image.

6. The user Interface of claim 5, wherein the detailed objects include text.

7. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the information relating to the geographic location for the respective search result includes an address that is displayed on the map.

8. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the information relating to the geographic location includes a name.

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

receiving a result selection command from the client computer system at the server computer system upon selection of at least one component of the respective search result; and

in response to the result selection command transmitting at least part of a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including the information relating to the respective search results displayed on the map.

10. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the information relating to the geographic locations includes an address for each search result.

11. 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 a search request from a client computer system at a server computer system;

utilizing the search request at the server computer system to extract a plurality of search results from a search data source, each search result including information relating to a respective 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 snap and the information relating to the geographic locations is used to indicate the geographic locations on the map, 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.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the component of the respective search result is not located on the map.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the component of the respective search result is a name of the search result.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein detailed objects of the respective search result are displayed at a location outside the map upon selection of the component of the respective search result.

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

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the detailed objects include text.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the information relating to the geographic location for the respective search result includes an address that is displayed on the map.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the information relating to the geographic location includes a name.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a result selection command from the client computer system at the server computer system upon selection of at least one component of the respective search result; and

in response to the result selection command transmitting at least part of a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including the information relating to the respective search results displayed on the map.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the information relating to the geographic locations includes an address for each search result.

21. The method of claim 11, wherein the search request includes an area and a boundary of the area is displayed on the map.

22. The method of claim 11, wherein the view is configured to make an addition to the map.

23. The method of claim 11, 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.

24. The method of claim 11, 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.

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 a search request from a client computer system, at a server computer system;

utilizing the search request at the server computer system to extract a plurality of search results from a search data source, each search result including information relating to a respective 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 locations is used to indicate the geographic locations on the map, 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.