SEAMLESS PAGINATION

• US 20150066907A1
• Filed: 03/07/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Somaiya, Manas Haribhai, Chakraborty, Rabi, De, Nirveek, Marshall, Dennis, Baliga, Akshata, Dasgupta, Sudeep, Varshney, Meenal, Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh
• Granted Patent: US 9,613,161 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A search engine determines a number of pages to present to a user based on one or more of a variety of factors. The search engine may send the search results to a client machine, which may present a subset of the results along with a pagination control in a scrollable interface. The pagination control may present the number of pages determined by the search engine. The search engine may also determine a number of search results to present prior to the presentation of non-scrollable user interface (UI) elements based on the same or different factors. After the amount of scrolling exceeds a threshold, a non-scrollable UI element may be displayed. Additional thresholds may exist, such that additional non-scrollable UI elements are added as the user continues to scroll.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more modules configured to;

submit a search query to a server;

receive a plurality of search results from the server, the plurality of search results corresponding to a first number of pages;

receive a pagination control size from the server, the pagination control size indicating a second number of pages smaller than the first number of pages; and

display the plurality of search results along with a pagination control having the pagination control size, the pagination control operable to select a page of the second number of pages.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second number of pages is based on prior user interactions with search results after other search queries similar to the search query.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second number of pages is based on prior interactions by the user with search results from other search queries.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the second number of pages is based on a location of the user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of search results are displayed in a scrollable interface;

and

the one or more modules are further configured to, responsive to an amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface past a threshold, display refinement data in a non-scrollable element, the displaying of the non-scrollable element being performed in conjunction with the displaying of the plurality of search results.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the display of the plurality of search results in the scrollable interface includes the display of initial refinement data.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the threshold is based on a determination that a first refinement option of the one or more refinement options has scrolled off of the display.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the refinement data is a refinement option and the non-scrollable element is operable to select the refinement option.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more modules are further configured to, responsive to an additional amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing an additional threshold, move the non-scrollable element.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the non-scrollable element is a refinement category and the non-scrollable element is operable to cause a refinement option corresponding to the refinement category to be displayed;

and

the one or more modules are further configured to display the refinement option in the non-scrollable element in response to an additional amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing an additional threshold.

11. A method comprising:

submitting a search query to a server;

receiving a plurality of search results from the server, the plurality of search results corresponding to a first number of pages;

receiving a pagination control size from the server, the pagination control size indicating a second number of pages smaller than the first number of pages; and

displaying the plurality of search results along with a pagination control having the pagination control size, the pagination control operable to select a page of the second number of pages.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the second number of pages is based on prior user interactions with search results after other search queries similar to the search query.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second number of pages is based on prior interactions by the user with search results after other search queries.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the second number of pages is based on a location of the user.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of search results are displayed in a scrollable interface;

and

the method further comprises, responsive to an amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing a threshold, displaying refinement data in a non-scrollable element, the displaying of the non-scrollable element being performed in conjunction with the displaying of the plurality of search results.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the display of the plurality of search results in the scrollable interface includes the display of initial refinement data.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the threshold is based on a determination that a first refinement option of the one or more refinement options has scrolled off of the display.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the refinement data is a refinement option and the non-scrollable element is operable to select the refinement option.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises, responsive to an additional amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing an additional threshold, moving the non-scrollable element.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

submitting a search query to a server;

receiving a plurality of search results from the server, the plurality of search results corresponding to a first number of pages;

receiving a pagination control size from the server, the pagination control size indicating a second number of pages smaller than the first number of pages; and

displaying the plurality of search results along with a pagination control having the pagination control size, the pagination control operable to select a page of the second number of pages.