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System and method of grouping search results using information representations

  • US 8,527,874 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2006
  • Issued: 09/03/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of grouping search results using information representations, the method comprising:

  • receiving an input for selecting an object having a first object type;

    displaying, by a server computer, on a graphical user interface, at least one tile that graphically represents at least one user associated with the selected object;

    determining a chronological timeline that represents a plurality of actions performed by the at least one user, wherein the plurality of actions performed by at least one user have a plurality of chronological positions in the chronological timeline;

    inferring one or more relationships between the selected object and one or more other objects associated with the at least one user from the plurality of actions represented in the chronological timeline, wherein inferring the one or more relationships includes;

    identifying one or more of the plurality of actions that are related to the selected object from the plurality of chronological positions that the plurality of actions have in the chronological timeline, wherein the at least one user performed the identified one or more actions on the one or more other objects, and wherein the one or more other objects have a second object type different from the first object type; and

    determining that the one or more other objects are related to the selected object from a strength of the one or more inferred relationships, wherein the strength of the one or more inferred relationships is derived from the chronological positions that the identified one or more actions have in the chronological timeline,generating one or more additional tiles that graphically represent the one or more other objects related to the selected object and performed by the at least one user in response to a selection of the at least one tile that graphically represents the at least one user; and

    simultaneously displaying, on the graphical user interface, the one or more additional tiles that graphically represent the one or more other objects related to the selected object and performed by the at least one user, wherein the graphical user interface further organizes the at least one tile and the one or more additional tiles based on the first object type for the selected object and the second object type for the one or more other objects.

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