SEARCH AND NAVIGATION TO SPECIFIC DOCUMENT CONTENT

• US 20140164352A1
• Filed: 11/19/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Karl L. Denninghoff
• Original Assignee: Karl L. Denninghoff
• Inventors: Denninghoff, Karl L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,356,574 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/02622 of the surface, including back surface
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/1092 the enclosure being defined by a cover cap mounted on an element forming part of the surface acoustic wave [SAW] device on the side of the IDT's
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 9/25 Constructional features of resonators using surface acoustic waves devices for manipulating acoustic surface waves in general G10K11/36

Abstract

A computer-implemented system and method for search and navigation on a network to find and display specific search identified information in documents. Queries are sent to search engine services and responses comprising snippets are returned. Then, in response to only one or a few user inputs, documents are opened and locations of content matching or best matching the snippets are found reliably and distinguished in a display.

Claims

1. A system for search, retrieval, and display of information in an electronic communication network, the system comprising:

a user agent in the electronic communication network, the user agent having one or more screens, that;

in response to a first query input, transmits a first search query, receives a first query response document comprising a first set of one or more response snippets, displays the first query response document in a first response document display on the one or more screens, in response to a first selection input received within the first response document display wherein the selection input comprises selection of a sourced document, provides a first document display on the one or more screens using a first client content version of the sourced document, and

in response to a second query input transmits a second search query, receives a second query response document comprising a second set of one or more response snippets, displays the second query response document in a second response document display, in response to a second selection input received within the second response document display that comprises selection of the sourced document, provides a second document display on the one or more screens using a second client content version of the sourced document;

wherein;

in response to an action set comprising multiple single actions, wherein the single actions comprise the first selection input and zero or more additional inputs permitted according to a set of distinguishing inputs of a first distinguishing context of the first document display, a first partially distinguished word is visibly displayed and partially distinguished in the first document display on the one or more screens, and the first partially distinguished word is in a first matching document snippet of the first client content version that is canonically similar to the first set of one or more response snippets;

a second partially distinguished word is partially distinguished in a second distinguishing context of the second document display and is in a second matching document snippet of the second client content version that is canonically similar to the second set of one or more response snippets;

a first set of cross matching document snippets, consisting of the visible document snippets of the second client content version that are canonically similar to the first set of one or more response snippets, is nonempty and its members are undistinguished in the second distinguishing context;

a second set of cross matching document snippets, consisting of the visible document snippets of the first client content version that are canonically similar to the second set of one or more response snippets, is nonempty and its members are undistinguished in the first distinguishing context; and

the text of a word that is undistinguished in the first distinguishing context matches the text of the first partially distinguished word.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the action set comprises no more than five single actions.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the action set comprises no more than three single actions.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the action set comprises only one single action.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the effects of the one single action being performed include activation of a hyperlink.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the second client content version is different from the first client content version.

7. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

a search engine service in the electronic communication network that;

in response to receiving the first search query generates the first query response document comprising the first set of one or more response snippets that are constructed using information from a first server content version of the sourced document, and transmits the first query response document;

in response to receiving the second search query generates the second query response document comprising the second set of one or more response snippets that are constructed using information from a second server content version of the sourced document, and transmits the second query response document;

wherein

the user agent transmits the first search query and the second search query to the search engine service.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first server content version is different from the second server content version.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the first client content version of the sourced document is a different version of the document than the first server content version of the sourced document.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the text of a word in the first search query is the same as the text of the first partially distinguished word.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first client content version of the sourced document is an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document and the path tag set for the first partially distinguished word in the first client content version is the same as the path tag set for the undistinguished word in the first client content version.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the path tag sequence for the first partially distinguished word in the first client content version is the same as the path tag sequence for the undistinguished word in the first client content version.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the search engine service retrieves the first server content version of the sourced document from a document source and in response to the first selection input the user agent retrieves the first client content version from the document source.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the search engine service retrieves the first server content version of the sourced document from a document source and in response to the first selection input the user agent retrieves the first client content version from the document source.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the retrieval of the first client content version of the sourced document is an undistinguished retrieval from the document source.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the retrieval of the first client content version of the sourced document is an undistinguished retrieval from the document source.

17. The system of claim 4, wherein the first selection input also selects a selected subset of the first set of one or more response snippets that is nonempty, and the first matching document snippet is canonically similar to the selected subset of the first set of one or more response snippets.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the selected subset comprises all of the snippets of the first set of one or more response snippets.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the text of the first matching document snippet matches the text of one of the snippets of the selected subset of the first set of one or more response snippets.

20. A method for search, retrieval, and display of information on a user agent having one or more screens in an electronic communication network, the method comprising:

transmitting, in response to a first query input, a first search query from the user agent;

receiving a first query response document comprising a first set of one or more response snippets;

displaying the first query response document in a first response document display on the one or more screens;

selecting a sourced document by receiving a first selection input from within the first document display;

in response to the first selection input, providing a first distinguishing context for a first document display of a first client content version of the sourced document on the one or more screens;

in response to a second query input, transmitting a second search query from the user agent;

receiving a second query response document comprising a second set of one or more response snippets;

displaying the second query response document in a second response document display on the one or more screens;

selecting the sourced document by receiving a second selection input from within the first document display;

in response to the second selection input, providing a second distinguishing context for a second document display of a second client content version of the sourced document on the one or more screens;

distinguishing partially and displaying visibly a first partially distinguished word in the first document display on the one or more screens, in response to an action set of one and up to 6 single actions, which are the single actions comprised by the first selection input and zero or more single actions comprised by additional inputs permitted according to the set of distinguishing inputs of a first distinguishing context of the first document display, where the first partially distinguished word is in a first matching document snippet of the first client content version that is canonically similar to the first set of one or more response snippets;

distinguishing partially, in a second distinguishing context of the second document display, a second partially distinguished word in a second matching document snippet that is canonically similar to the second set of one or more response snippets;

displaying, in the second document display and in a manner that is not distinguishing according to the distinguishing manner of the second distinguishing context, all of the one or more visible document snippets of the second client content version that are canonically similar to the first set of one or more response snippets;

displaying, in the first document display and in a manner that is not distinguishing according to the distinguishing manner of the first distinguishing context, all of the one or more visible document snippets of the first client content version that are canonically similar to the second set of one or more response snippets; and

displaying, in the first document display and in a manner that is not distinguished according to the first distinguishing context, a word having text that matches the text of the first partially distinguished word.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the action set comprises no more than five single actions.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the action set comprises no more than three single actions.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the action set comprises only one single action.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the effects of the single action being performed include activation of a hyperlink.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the second client content version is different from the first client content version.

26. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

receiving the first search query at a search engine service;

constructing, in response to receiving the first search query, the first set of one or more response snippets using information from the first server content version of the sourced document;

generating the first query response document comprising the first set of one or more response snippets;

transmitting the second query response document from the search engine service to the user agent;

receiving the second search query at the search engine service;

constructing, in response to receiving the second search query, the second set of one or more response snippets using information from the second server content version of the sourced document;

generating the second query response document comprising the second set of one or more response snippets; and

transmitting the second query response document from the search engine service to the user agent.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the first server content version is different from the second server content version.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the first client content version of the sourced document is a different version of the document than the first server content version of the sourced document.

29. The method of claim 23, wherein the text of a word in the first search query is the same as the text of the first partially distinguished word.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the first client content version of the sourced document is an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document and the path tag set for the first partially distinguished word in the first client content version is the same as the path tag set for the undistinguished word in the first client content version.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the path tag sequence for the first partially distinguished word in the first client content version is the same as the path tag sequence for the undistinguished word in the first client content version.

32. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

retrieving the first server content version of the sourced document from a document source to the search engine service; and

retrieving, in response to the first selection input, the first client content version from the document source to the user agent.

33. The method of claim 30, further comprising:

retrieving the first server content version of the sourced document from a document source to the search engine service; and

retrieving, in response to the first selection input, the first client content version from the document source to the user agent.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein retrieving the first server content version of the sourced document accomplishes an undistinguished retrieval from the document source.

35. The method of claim 33, wherein retrieving the first client content version of the sourced document accomplishes an undistinguished retrieval from the document source.

36. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

selecting a nonempty selected subset of the first set of one or more response snippets in response to receiving the first selection input, and wherein the first matching document snippet is canonically similar to the selected subset of the first set of one or more response snippets.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein the selected subset comprises all of the snippets of the first set of one or more response snippets.

38. The method of claim 24, wherein the text of the first matching document snippet matches the text of one of the snippets of the selected subset of the first set of one or more response snippets.