Seamless pagination

• US 9,613,161 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2014
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Somaiya, Manas Haribhai, Chakraborty, Rabi, De, Nirveek, Baliga, Akshata, Dasgupta, Sudeep, Varshney, Meenal, Marshall, Dennis, Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TRUONG V
• Application Number:
  US14/201,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,124 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A search engine determines a number of pages to present to a user based on one or more of a variety of factors. The search engine may send the search results to a client machine, which may present a subset of the results along with a pagination control in a scrollable interface. The pagination control may present the number of pages determined by the search engine. The search engine may also determine a number of search results to present prior to the presentation of non-scrollable user interface (UI) elements based on the same or different factors. After the amount of scrolling exceeds a threshold, a non-scrollable UI element may be displayed. Additional thresholds may exist, such that additional non-scrollable UI elements are added as the user continues to scroll.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a display device;

a memory having instructions embodied thereon; and

one or more processors configured by the instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

submitting, to a server, a search query generated by a user;

receiving a plurality of search results from the server, the plurality of search results corresponding to a first quantity of pages;

receiving a pagination control size from the server, the pagination control size indicating a second quantity of pages based on prior interactions of other users with search results after other search queries similar to the search query; and

displaying, on the display device, a page of the first quantity of pages of the plurality of search results along with a pagination control having the pagination control size, the pagination control operable to select a page from the second quantity of pages.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second quantity of pages is further based on prior interactions by the user with search results from other search queries.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second quantity of pages is further based on a location of the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of search results are displayed in a scrollable interface;

and the operations further comprise, responsive to an amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface past a threshold, displaying refinement data in a non-scrollable element, the refinement data including one or more refinement options, the displaying of the non-scrollable element being performed in conjunction with the displaying of the plurality of search results.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the displaying of the plurality of search results in the scrollable interface includes displaying initial refinement data on the display device.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the threshold is based on a determination that a first refinement option of the one or more refinement options has scrolled off of the display device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the refinement data is a refinement option and the non-scrollable element is operable to select the refinement option.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the operations further comprise, responsive to an additional amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing an additional threshold, moving the non-scrollable element.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the non-scrollable element is a refinement category and the non-scrollable element is operable to cause a refinement option corresponding to the refinement category to be displayed;

and the operations further comprise displaying the refinement option in the non-scrollable element in response to an additional amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing an additional threshold.

10. A method comprising:

submitting, to a server, a search query generated by a user;

receiving a plurality of search results from the server, the plurality of search results corresponding to a first quantity of pages;

receiving a pagination control size from the server, the pagination control size indicating a second quantity of pages based on prior interactions of other users with search results after other search queries similar to the search query; and

displaying, on a display device, a page of the first quantity of pages of the plurality of search results along with a pagination control having the pagination control size, the pagination control operable to select a page from the second quantity of pages.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second quantity of pages is further based on prior interactions by the user with search results after other search queries.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the second quantity of pages is further based on a location of the user.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the plurality of search results are displayed in a scrollable interface;

and the method further comprises, responsive to an amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing a threshold, displaying refinement data in a non-scrollable element, the refinement data including one or more refinement options, the displaying of the non-scrollable element being performed in conjunction with the displaying of the plurality of search results.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the display of the plurality of search results in the scrollable interface includes displaying initial refinement data on the display device.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the threshold is based on a determination that a first refinement option of the one or more refinement options has scrolled off of the display device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the refinement data is a refinement option and the non-scrollable element is operable to select the refinement option.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises, responsive to an additional amount of scrolling of the scrollable interface transgressing an additional threshold, moving the non-scrollable element.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

submitting, to a server, a search query generated by a user;

receiving a plurality of search results from the server, the plurality of search results corresponding to a first quantity of pages;

receiving a pagination control size from the server, the pagination control size indicating a second quantity of pages based on prior interactions of other users with search results after other search queries similar to the search query; and

displaying, on a display device, a page of the first quantity of pages of the plurality of search results along with a pagination control having the pagination control size, the pagination control operable to select a page from the second quantity of pages.