Accessing a search interface in a structured presentation
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1. A system comprising:
- one or more computers programmed to interact with client devices and to perform operations comprising;
receiving a search query;
providing a structured presentation for display on a display device responsive to the search query, the structured presentation visually presenting information in a systematic and structured arrangement that conforms with a structured design, the structured presentation denoting associations between an instance and values that characterize attributes of an entity corresponding to the instance using an arrangement of the values in respective cells of the structured presentation, wherein one or more values of in the respective cells are populated from one or more electronic documents identified from a search of an unstructured collection of electronic documents;
receiving a user interaction with a first cell of the structured presentation, the first cell having a first value for a particular attribute of an instance associated with the first cell; and
in response to the received user interaction with the first cell;
determining that the first value of the first cell provided in the structured presentations resulted from a prior search of the unstructured collection of electronic documents that identified one or more particular electronic documents as including content characterizing the particular attribute of the instance, wherein the first value was determined from the content of the one or more particular electronic documents; and
in response to determining that the prior search was conducted, providing information regarding the prior search including providing a search interface associated with the first value of the first cell for presentation on the display device, the search interface configured to present search result information characterizing the prior search including providing information identifying a first electronic document of the particular electronic documents from which the first value for the attribute of the instance was determined including providing for display a link to the first electronic document.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer storage media, for accessing a search interface from a structured presentation. One aspect can be embodied in machine-implemented methods that include the actions of displaying a structured presentation on a display device, receiving data characterizing a user interaction with the displayed structured presentation, the data including a specification of a first instance and a first attribute of the structured presentation, and displaying a formerly concealed search interface on the display device in response to receiving the data.
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1. A system comprising:
one or more computers programmed to interact with client devices and to perform operations comprising; receiving a search query; providing a structured presentation for display on a display device responsive to the search query, the structured presentation visually presenting information in a systematic and structured arrangement that conforms with a structured design, the structured presentation denoting associations between an instance and values that characterize attributes of an entity corresponding to the instance using an arrangement of the values in respective cells of the structured presentation, wherein one or more values of in the respective cells are populated from one or more electronic documents identified from a search of an unstructured collection of electronic documents; receiving a user interaction with a first cell of the structured presentation, the first cell having a first value for a particular attribute of an instance associated with the first cell; and in response to the received user interaction with the first cell; determining that the first value of the first cell provided in the structured presentations resulted from a prior search of the unstructured collection of electronic documents that identified one or more particular electronic documents as including content characterizing the particular attribute of the instance, wherein the first value was determined from the content of the one or more particular electronic documents; and in response to determining that the prior search was conducted, providing information regarding the prior search including providing a search interface associated with the first value of the first cell for presentation on the display device, the search interface configured to present search result information characterizing the prior search including providing information identifying a first electronic document of the particular electronic documents from which the first value for the attribute of the instance was determined including providing for display a link to the first electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method, comprising:
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receiving a search query; providing a structured presentation for display on a display device responsive to the search query, the structured presentation visually presenting information in a systematic and structured arrangement that conforms with a structured design, the structured presentation denoting associations between an instance and values that characterize attributes an entity corresponding to of the instance using an arrangement of the values in respective cells of the structured presentation responsive to the search query; receiving a user interaction with a first cell of the structured presentation, the first cell having a first value for a particular attribute of an instance associated with the first cell; and in response to the received user interaction with the first cell; determining that the first value of the first cell provided in the structured presentations resulted from a prior search of the unstructured collection of electronic documents by a system comprising one or more computers that identified one or more particular electronic documents as including content characterizing the particular attribute of the instance, wherein the first value was determined from the content of the one or more particular electronic documents; and in response to determining that the prior search was conducted, providing information regarding the prior search including providing a search interface associated with the first value of the first cell for presentation on the display device, the search interface configured to present search result information characterizing the prior search including providing information identifying a first electronic document of the particular electronic documents from which the first value for the attribute of the instance was determined including providing for display a link to the first electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
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receiving a search query; providing a structured presentation for display on a display device responsive to the search query, the structured presentation visually presenting information in a systematic and structured arrangement that conforms with a structured design, the structured presentation denoting associations between an instance and values that characterize attributes of an entity corresponding to the instance using an arrangement of the values in respective cells of the structured presentation, wherein one or more values of in the respective cells are populated from one or more electronic documents identified from a search of an unstructured collection of electronic documents; receiving a user interaction with a first cell of the structured presentation, the first cell having a first value for a particular attribute of an instance associated with the first cell; and in response to the received user interaction with the first cell; determining that the first value of the first cell provided in the structured presentations resulted from a prior search of the unstructured collection of electronic documents by a system comprising one or more computers that identified one or more particular electronic documents as including content characterizing the particular attribute of the instance, wherein the first value was determined from the content of the one or more particular electronic documents; and in response to determining that the prior search was conducted, providing information regarding the prior search including providing a search interface associated with the first value of the first cell for presentation on the display device, the search interface configured to present search result information characterizing the prior search including providing information identifying a first electronic document of the particular electronic documents from which the first value for the attribute of the instance was determined including providing for display a link to the first electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system, comprising:
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a user device comprising a display device; one or more computers programmed to interact with the user device and to perform operations comprising; receiving a search query; providing a structured presentation for display on the display device responsive to the search query, the data specifying a first cell of the structured presentation displayed, the structured presentation visually presenting information in a systematic and structured arrangement that conforms with a structured design, the structured presentation denoting associations between an instance and values that characterize attributes of an entity corresponding to the instance using an arrangement of the values in respective cells of the structured presentation, wherein one or more values of in the respective cells are populated from one or more electronic documents identified from a search of an unstructured collection of electronic documents; receiving a user interaction with a first cell of the structured presentation, the first cell having a first value for a particular attribute of an instance associated with the first cell; and in response to the received user interaction with the first cell; determining, in response to receipt of the data characterizing the user interaction, that the first value of the first cell provided in the structured presentations resulted from a prior search of the unstructured collection of electronic documents by the one or more computers that identified one or more particular electronic documents as including content characterizing the particular attribute of the instance, wherein the first value was determined from the content of the one or more particular electronic documents; and in response to determining that the prior search was conducted, providing information regarding the prior search including providing a search interface associated with the first value of the first cell for presentation on the display device, the search interface configured to present search result information characterizing the prior search including providing information identifying a first electronic document of the particular electronic documents from which the first value for the attribute of the instance was determined for display on the display device including providing for display a link to the first electronic document.
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