Slashtags

• US 20120150844A1
• Filed: 12/16/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: LINDAHL, Gregory B., Dole, Bryn Robert, Markson, Michael, Peters, Keith, Saliba, Robert Michael, Skrenta, Rich, Truel, Robert N.
• Granted Patent: US 10,877,950 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2282 Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24554 Unary operations; Data partitioning operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2462 Approximate or statistical queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A method of requesting a search query to be displayed in a web browser. The method includes receiving search terms and slash operators and generating results based on the search terms and slash operators.

Claims

1. A method for requesting a search query to be displayed in a web browser, comprising receiving one or more search terms and a slash operator selected from a plurality of slash operators, and generating a search result based on the one or more search terms and the slash operator.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the search result comprises providing a search result list that organizes content based on the one or more search terms that are within the category determined by the slash operator.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of slash operators comprise mainstream operators.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of slash operators comprise content operators.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of slash operators comprise facet operators.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of slash operators comprise URL operators.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of slash operators comprise list operators.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising utilizing pre-intersect common filters when generating the search result.