PAGE PREVIEW USING CONTEXTUAL TEMPLATE METADATA AND LABELING

• US 20130151936A1
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Regier, Keith A., Marantz, Daniel, Thazhathekalam, Krishnan, Ahn, David D., Hsu, Diana, Rashad, Khaled
• Application Number:
  US13/316,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20130151936A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Architecture that provides a preview template of information supplemented to a result entry of a results page, such as a search engine results page. A data component supplements the result entry with information from a results destination document. The information is segmented and grouped into logical collections of related results according to contextual templates. Each template is associated with an interactive label that exposes a corresponding collection in response to label interaction. Each label of a template is a visual cue that includes a descriptive title which relates to individual web results of the collection. A user can scan through the labels and interact only with the section (collection) of interest to obtain a preview of destination document results before committing a click that navigates the user to the destination document of the website. The labels are also ranked within the template of information for a given result entry.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a data component that supplements a result entry with information from a results destination document, the information is segmented and grouped into logical collections of related results according to contextual templates, each template associated with an interactive label that exposes a corresponding collection in response to label interaction; and

a processor that executes computer-executable instructions associated with the data component.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the labels are annotated with contextual metadata descriptive of the corresponding collection.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the labels and corresponding templates are ranked and presented for user interaction.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the labels and corresponding templates are ranked based on scenario importance and task importance.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the template is a task oriented template that accepts and sends user input to a results destination document via a dynamically created link.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the logical collection of a label is exposed in response to a hover interaction.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the logical collections are grouped based on contextual relationships.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the data component computes available space for presentation of labels and associated templates of a given result entry.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the data component computes available space for presentation of labels based on a number of lines a result entry occupies.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the collection of results of a template is previewed without navigating to a corresponding results destination document.

11. A method, comprising acts of:

receiving a result entry on a results page in response to a query, the result entry associated with a destination webpage;

selecting contextual templates and associated template labels for presentation proximate the result entry;

populating the templates with metadata from the destination webpage;

enabling preview of template metadata in response to user interaction with the corresponding template label; and

utilizing a processor that executes instructions stored in memory to perform at least one of the acts of receiving, selecting, populating, or enabling.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising annotating the labels with contextual metadata that relates to the corresponding template.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising presenting the labels as visual cues to interact and expose underlying template metadata.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising ranking the templates and associated labels based on context and task.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving and submitting user input to a task oriented template to the destination webpage.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising computing space available of the result entry for a number of labels to present based on lines in the result entry.

17. A method, comprising acts of:

receiving a result entry on a results page in response to a query, the result entry associated with a destination webpage;

selecting contextual templates and associated template labels for presentation proximate the result entry;

populating a given template with contextually related metadata from the destination webpage;

annotating the labels with metadata that relates to the corresponding template;

ranking the templates and associated labels based on context and task;

presenting the labels as visual cues for user interaction;

enabling preview of template metadata in response to user interaction with the corresponding template label; and

utilizing a processor that executes instructions stored in memory to perform at least one of the acts of receiving, selecting, populating, annotating, ranking, presenting, or enabling.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising exposing only template metadata selected for presentation.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving and submitting user input to a task oriented template to the destination webpage.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising computing space available of the result entry for labels to present based on lines in the result entry.