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System, methods and applications for embedded internet searching and result display

  • US 8,725,729 B2
  • Filed: 04/03/2006
  • Issued: 05/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method that generates an internet search phrase and conducts an internet search from within a viewed document comprising the acts of:

  • (a) selecting a first search phrase from within the viewed document by selecting at least two spaced apart search terms;

    (b) selecting, from within the viewed document, a second search phrase by selecting at least two spaced apart search terms, the second search phrase spaced apart from the first search phrase by unselected words, while the first search phrase remains selected;

    (c) transmitting the first and second search phrases to an internet searching program;

    (d) conducting a first search on the internet based upon the first search phrase;

    (e) conducting a second search on the internet, contemporaneously with the first search, based upon the second search phrase; and

    (f) receiving the results of the first internet search within the viewed document in a format linked to the first search phrase; and

    (g) receiving the results of the second internet search, contemporaneously with receiving the results of the first internet search, within the viewed document in a format linked to the second search phrase.

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