User-navigable resource representations

• US 9,348,846 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2012
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Krishnan, Raj, Kelly, Ryan, Rocha, Daniel, Jones, Harvey C., Silber, Jeremy, Johnston, Hannah Allison, Yanofsky, Russell, Sermadevi, Yegnaswamy Ramakrishnan, Fischer, Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): LONG, ANDREA NATAE
• Application Number:
  US13/540,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20150169145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,422 Days
• Field of Search: 715/206, 715/738
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A method and system for providing user-navigable search results returns a resource representation for a resource, such as a web site or other Internet accessible object. The resource representation may be navigable by a user in a manner mirroring navigation of the resource. The resource representation may include a plurality of indicators representing menu links selected from resource links associated with the resource. Selection of an indicator may cause content associated with the indicator, such as resource links and related snippets, to be displayed. A hierarchical arrangement of elements in the resource representation may correspond to a hierarchical arrangement of navigable content in the resource.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing data indicative of resource links in a resource;

identifying, by a data processing system, menu links from the resource links in the resource based on whether a number of resource links in another resource linked to by each of the resource links satisfies a depth criteria, wherein the menu links include at least a first menu link and a second menu link;

in response to identifying menu links from the resource links in the resource based on whether the number of resource links in the other resource linked to by each of the resource links satisfies the depth criteria, identifying, by the data processing system, an association of a first plurality of the resource links in the resource with the first menu link identified from the resource links in the resource and an association of a second plurality of the resource links in the resource with the second menu link identified from the resource links in the resource;

receiving a query;

determining that the resource is responsive to the query; and

in response to determining that the resource is responsive to the query, providing search results that are responsive to the query, the search results comprising a resource representation for the resource generated based on the association of the first plurality of the resource links in the resource with the first menu link identified from the resource links in the resource and the association of the second plurality of the resource links in the resource with the second menu link identified from the resource links in the resource, the resource representation comprising;

presentation content for display on a user device, the presentation content comprising;

two or more menu indicators, wherein a first menu indicator is associated with the first menu link and the second menu indicator is associated with the second menu link;

display information, wherein the display information includes at least one of the resource links; and

instructions executable by a processor to cause, in response to selection of the second menu indicator associated with the second menu link, a display of the presentation content to be updated within the search results to include at least some of the plurality of the resource links associated with the second menu link.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource comprises a web accessible object.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the web accessible object comprises an object selected from:

a web page, a video, an image, an audio file, and a combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing data indicative of resource links comprises identifying significant resource links satisfying significance criteria and wherein the significance criteria include criteria indicative of a link popularity.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying the association reflects identifying a navigational hierarchy between the first menu link and the plurality of resource links.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the menu indicators include selectable tabs.

7. A data processing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

computer readable media accessible to the one or more processors, storing processor executable program instructions, the program instructions including instructions executable to cause the one or more processors to;

access data indicative of resource links in a resource;

identify menu links from the resource links in the resource based on whether a number of resource links in another resource linked to by each of the resource links satisfies a depth criteria, wherein the menu links include at least a first menu link and a second menu link;

in response to identifying menu links from the resource links in the resource based on whether the number of resource links in the other resource linked to by each of the resource links satisfies the depth criteria, identify an association of a first plurality of the resource links in the resource with the first menu link identified from the resource links in the resource and an association of a second plurality of the resource links in the resource with the second menu link identified from the resource links in the resource;

receive a query;

determine that the resource is responsive to the query; and

in response to determining that the resource is responsive to the query, provide search results that are responsive to the query, the search results comprising a resource representation for the resource generated based on the association of the first plurality of the resource links in the resource with the first menu link identified from the resource links in the resource and the association of the second plurality of the resource links in the resource with the second menu link identified from the resource links in the resource, the resource representation comprising;

presentation content for display on a user device, the presentation content comprising;

two or more menu indicators, wherein a first menu indicator is associated with the first menu link and a second menu indicator is associated with the second menu link; and

display information, wherein the display information includes at least one of the resource links,

wherein a display of the presentation content, in response to selection of the second menu indicator associated with the second menu link, is updated within the search results to include at least some of the plurality of the resource links associated with the second menu link.

8. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the resource comprises a web accessible object.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the web accessible object comprises an object selected from:

a web page, a video, an image, an audio file, and a combination thereof.

10. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein a number of menu indicators included in the presentation content is determined based on a size of a display.

11. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the resource representation is configured to cause, in response to selection of a first indicator, a display of the presentation content to include a plurality of significant resource links comprising resource links having a link popularity exceeding a threshold value.

12. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the menu indicators are ordered according to a link popularity of the associated menu links.

13. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the resource links included in the display information are grouped in columns and wherein each of the columns has a length criteria for the corresponding resource links.

14. A non-transitory computer readable media storing computer executable program instructions, the program instructions including instructions executable to cause a processor to:

access data indicative of resource links in a resource;

identify menu links from the resource links in the resource based on whether a number of resource links in another resource linked to by each of the resource links satisfies a depth criteria, wherein the menu links include at least a first menu link and a second menu link;

in response to identifying menu links from the resource links in the resource based on whether the number of resource links in the other resource linked to by each of the resource links satisfies the depth criteria, identify an association of a first plurality of the resource links in the resource with the first menu link identified from the resource links in the resource and an association of a second plurality of the resource links in the resource with the second menu link identified from the resource links in the resource;

receive a query;

determine that the resource is responsive to the query; and

in response to determining that the resource is responsive to the query, provide search results that are responsive to the query, the search results comprising a resource representation for the resource generated based on the association of the first plurality of the resource links in the resource with the first menu link identified from the resource links in the resource and the association of the second plurality of the resource links in the resource with the second menu link identified from the resource links in the resource, the resource representation comprising;

presentation content for display on a user device, the presentation content comprising;

two or more menu indicators, wherein a first menu indicator is associated with the first menu link and a second menu indicator is associated with the second menu link; and

display information, wherein the display information includes at least one of the resource links,

wherein a display of the presentation content, in response to selection of the second menu indicator associated with the second menu link, is updated within the search results to include at least some of the plurality of the resource links associated with the second menu link.

15. The computer readable media of claim 14, wherein the resource comprises a web accessible object.

16. The computer readable media of claim 15, wherein the web accessible object comprises an object selected from:

a web page, a video, an image, an audio file, and a combination thereof.

17. The computer readable media of claim 14, wherein the resource representation is configured to cause, in response to selection of a last indicator, a display of the presentation content to be updated to include menu links exclusively.

18. The computer readable media of claim 14, wherein the resource links included in the display information are grouped in columns and wherein each of the columns has a length criteria for the corresponding resource links.

19. The computer readable media of claim 14, wherein the display information includes a snippet describing the first menu link.