Providing a Search Results Document That Includes a User Interface for Performing an Action in Connection with a Web Page Identified in the Search Results Document

• US 20160117331A1
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Published: 04/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: de Sousa, David Reis
• Granted Patent: US 9,659,067 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking

Abstract

A computer device is configured to identify a document; determine that the document includes an annotation, the annotation describing a user interface that is to be visually displayed in connection with information identifying the document when the information identifying the document is included in a search results document, the user interface including a user interface element that, when selected, causes an action to be performed in connection with the document, and the action being performed without obtaining the document after the user interface element is selected; determine information relating to the user interface based on the annotation; and store, in a search index, the information relating to the user interface in association with the information identifying the document.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

identifying, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a document;

determining, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, that the document includes an annotation,

the annotation describing a user interface that is to be visually displayed in connection with information identifying the document when the information identifying the document is included in a search results document,

the user interface including a user interface element that, when selected, causes an action to be performed in connection with the document, and

the action being performed without obtaining the document after the user interface element is selected;

obtaining, by at least one of the one or more computing devices and based on the annotation, information relating to the user interface; and

storing, by at least one of the one or more computing devices and in a search index, the information relating to the user interface in association with the information identifying the document.