FACILITATING BROWSING OF RESULT SETS
First Claim
1. A method of facilitating the browsing of a plurality of result sets by a user, comprising:
- displaying a plurality of queries on a computer display, each query having a corresponding result set, the plurality of queries thereby constituting a set of displayed queries; and
displaying the result set of a selected displayed query in response to the user selecting the query from the set of displayed queries via a user interface procedure, while continuing to display the set of displayed queries so the user can subsequently select other queries from the set of displayed queries to thereby interleave browsing the result sets of the queries in the set of displayed queries.
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Abstract
A method of facilitating the browsing of a plurality of result sets by a user. The method includes displaying a plurality of queries on a computer display, each query having a corresponding result set, the plurality of queries thereby constituting a set of displayed queries, and displaying the result set of a selected displayed query in response to the user selecting the query from the set of displayed queries via a user interface procedure, while continuing to display the set of displayed queries so the user can subsequently select other queries from the set of displayed queries to thereby interleave browsing the result sets of the queries in the set of displayed queries.
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31 Claims
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1. A method of facilitating the browsing of a plurality of result sets by a user, comprising:
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displaying a plurality of queries on a computer display, each query having a corresponding result set, the plurality of queries thereby constituting a set of displayed queries; and displaying the result set of a selected displayed query in response to the user selecting the query from the set of displayed queries via a user interface procedure, while continuing to display the set of displayed queries so the user can subsequently select other queries from the set of displayed queries to thereby interleave browsing the result sets of the queries in the set of displayed queries. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system comprising:
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a computer having a display and a storage facility; a search application stored in the storage facility, the search application executable by the computer for performing a method of facilitating the browsing of a plurality of result sets by a user of the computer, the method comprising; displaying on the computer display a plurality of queries, each query having a corresponding result set; displaying the result set of a selected displayed query in response to the user selecting the query from the set of displayed queries via a user interface procedure, while continuing to display the plurality of queries, the result set being displayed, if not empty, by displaying a page of the result set together with a navigation tool for the result set, the page then being said to have been visited; displaying a destination page of a displayed non-empty result set in response to the user specifying the destination page using a displayed navigation tool for the result set, the destination page then being said to have been visited; and displaying again the result set of a previously selected displayed query in response to the user again selecting the query, the result set being displayed, if not empty, by displaying a last visited page of the result set and a navigation tool for the result set. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for controlling a computing device to perform a method of facilitating the browsing of a plurality of result sets, the method comprising:
displaying a plurality of queries on a computer display, each query having a corresponding result set; and displaying the result set of a selected displayed query in response to the user selecting the query from the plurality of queries while continuing to display the plurality of queries so that the user can subsequently select other queries from the plurality of queries to thereby interleave browsing the result sets of the plurality of queries.
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