Search Engine Results

• US 20150254356A1
• Filed: 05/21/2015
• Published: 09/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Skrenta, Rich, Annau, Thomas M., Saliba, Robert Michael, Sorrentino, Nicholas, Srinivasan, Krishna, Swartz, Dan, Lindahl, Gregory B., Markson, Michael, Frechet, Jacques, Zimdars, Chris
• Granted Patent: US 10,789,305 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/287 Visualization; Browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Systems and method for searching a network, including, via a server in communication with at least one data storage and a network, receiving search criteria via the network, retrieving sub search criteria related to the search criteria from the data storage, retrieving search results from the at least one data storage using the search criteria, retrieving sub search results from the at least one data storage, using the sub search criteria, organizing the search results and sub search results according to the sub search criteria, and causing display, via the network, of the organized search results and sub search results, grouped by sub search criteria.

Claims

1. A method of searching a network, comprising:

via a server in communication with at least one data storage and a network;

receiving search criteria via the network;

retrieving sub search criteria related to the search criteria from the data storage;

retrieving search results from the at least one data storage using the search criteria;

retrieving sub search results from the at least one data storage, using the sub search criteria;

organizing the search results and sub search results according to the sub search criteria; and

causing display, via the network, of the organized search results and sub search results, grouped by sub search criteria.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the display of the organized search results includes at least one of, headings, photos and sub search criteria information.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the network is a wide area network.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the grouped display of search results and sub search results includes scrollable bands according to sub search criteria;

the scrollable bands including;

labels for the sub search criteria; and

sub search criteria results of the corresponding sub search results.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the display further includes a top results band including a summary of the search criteria results.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the bands further include;

tiles of sub search results, including at least one of a photo, link, title, and summary.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the sub search criteria includes a slashtag operator.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the sub search criteria includes a slashtag operator.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising, via the server in communication with the at least one database and the network;

correlating the search results to at least one related advertisement.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising, via the server in communication with the at least one data storage and the network;

correlating the sub search results to at least one related advertisement.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising, via the server in communication with the at least one database and the network;

retrieving the at least one correlated advertisement related to the search results;

retrieving the at least one correlated advertisement related to the sub search results; and

causing display, via the network;

of the retrieved related correlated advertisement related to the search results; and

of the retrieved related correlated advertisement related to the sub search results.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the data storage is a cloud based data storage.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising, via the server;

matching the sub search criteria to the search criteria based on the relevance between them; and

storing the matching information between the sub search criteria and the search criteria in the data storage, to enable retrieval of the matched sub search criteria when the data storage is queried with the search criteria.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the stored matching information between the sub search criteria and the search criteria is in the form of a look up table.

15. The method of claim 7 wherein the slashtag operator is stored in the data storage.

16. The method of claim 8 wherein the slashtag operator is stored in the data storage.

17. The method of claim 1 further comprising, via the server;

requesting a login credential.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising, via the server;

linking the login credential to a third party website.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the third party website is a social networking website.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising, via the server;

sending information relating to the search and sub search to the social networking site, to be displayed on the logged in user social networking site.

21. A system of searching a network, comprising:

a server in communication with at least one data storage and a network, configured to;

receive search criteria via the network;

retrieve sub search criteria related to the search criteria from the data storage;

retrieve search results from the at least one data storage using the search criteria;

retrieve sub search results from the at least one data storage, using the sub search criteria;

organize the search results and sub search results according to the sub search criteria; and

cause display, via the network, of the organized search results and sub search results, grouped by sub search criteria.

22. The system of claim 21 wherein the display of the organized search results includes at least one of, headings, photos and sub search criteria information.

23. The system of claim 21 wherein the network is a wide area network.

24. The system of claim 21 wherein the grouped display of search results and sub search results includes scrollable bands according to sub search criteria;

the scrollable bands including;

labels for the sub search criteria; and

sub search criteria results of the corresponding sub search results.

25. The system of claim 24 wherein the display further includes a top results band including a summary of the search criteria results.

26. The system of claim 24 wherein the bands further include;

tiles of sub search results, including at least one of a photo, link, title, and summary.

27. The system of claim 21 wherein the sub search criteria includes a slashtag operator.

28. The system of claim 24 wherein the sub search criteria includes a slashtag operator.

29. The system of claim 21 wherein the server is further configured to;

correlate the search results to at least one related advertisement.

30. The system of claim 29 wherein the server is further configured to;

correlate the sub search results to at least one related advertisement.

31. The system of claim 30 wherein the server is further configured to;

retrieve at least one correlated advertisement related to the search results from the at least one database using the search criteria;

retrieve at least one correlated advertisement related to the sub search results from the at least one data storage, using the sub search criteria; and

cause display, via the network, of the retrieved related correlated advertisement in the corresponding search and sub search group.

32. The system of claim 21 wherein the data storage is a cloud based data storage.

33. The system of claim 21 wherein the server is further configured to;

match the sub search criteria to the search criteria based on the relevance between them; and

store the matching information between the sub search criteria and the search criteria in the data storage, to enable retrieval of the matched sub search criteria when the data storage is queried with the search criteria.

34. The system of claim 33 wherein the stored matching information between the sub search criteria and the search criteria is in the form of a look up table.