Method and system for presenting search results in a plurality of tabs

• US 9,824,120 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2012
• Issued: 11/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Gu, Huaping, Sundaresan, Neelakantan
• Primary Examiner(s): TORGRIMSON, TYLER J
• Application Number:
  US13/344,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,147 Days
• Field of Search: 707760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24534 Query rewriting; Transformation

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing search results in a plurality of tabs are described. In one example embodiment, a search term is received. In response, one or more keywords associated with the search term are obtained. Next, respective searches using respective keywords of the one or more keywords are performed to obtain respective results. The results are presented to a client machine for presentation. The presentation comprises a plurality of tabbed pages where each tabbed page of the plurality of tabbed pages including a respective keyword and a respective portion of the results corresponding to the respective keyword.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a search term from a client machine of a user;

identifying, by a keyword provider, a meta-keyword corresponding to the search term, the meta-keyword having an “

is-a”

relationship with one or more words;

accessing one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider;

performing a search of the one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider, the performing of the search of the one or more keywords being based on the meta-keyword, the performing of the search of the one or more keywords resulting in an identification of one or more linguistically transformed keywords associated with the meta-keyword among the one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider;

performing an initial search of a data repository based on the search term received from the client machine of the user to obtain initial search results;

performing one or more additional searches of the data repository based on the one or more linguistically transformed keywords to obtain keyword search results; and

providing the initial search results and the keyword search results to the client machine for simultaneous presentation in a user interface of the client machine, the presentation comprising one or more tabbed pages, each tabbed page of the one or more tabbed pages including at least a portion of the initial search results, a linguistically transformed keyword of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords identified by the key word provider, and at least a portion of the keyword search results corresponding to a search performed based on the linguistically transformed keyword of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to receiving a selection of a tabbed page, displaying the respective portion of the keyword search results corresponding to a search performed based on a respective linguistically transformed keyword included in the tabbed page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more additional searches of the data repository based on the one or more linguistically transformed keywords comprise a title search or a body search.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the presentation comprises a display of the meta-keyword.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising collecting feedback about the one or more linguistically transformed keywords based on particular tabbed pages selected by the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the search term includes one or more search terms, wherein one of the one or more search terms is the meta-keyword.

7. A system comprising:

a non-transitory machine-readable medium to store a data repository;

one or more hardware processors including one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving a search term from a client machine of a user;

identifying, by a keyword provider, a meta-keyword corresponding to the search term, the meta-keyword having an “

is-a”

relationship with one or more words;

accessing one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider;

performing a search of the one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider, the performing of the search of the one or more keywords being based on the meta-keyword, the performing of the search of the one or more keywords resulting in an identification of one or more linguistically transformed keywords associated with the meta-keyword among the one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider;

performing an initial search of a data repository based on the search term received from the client machine of the user to obtain initial search results;

performing one or more additional searches of the data repository based on the one or more linguistically transformed keywords to obtain keyword search results; and

providing the initial search results and the keyword search results to the client machine for simultaneous presentation in a user interface of the client machine, the presentation comprising one or more tabbed pages, each tabbed page of the one or more tabbed pages including at leak a portion of the initial search results, a linguistically transformed keyword of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords identified by the key word provider, and at least a portion of the keyword search results corresponding to a search performed based on the linguistically transformed keyword of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise displaying, in response to receiving a selection of a tabbed page, a respective portion of the keyword search results corresponding to a search performed based on a respective linguistically transformed keyword included in the tabbed page.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more additional searches of the data repository based on the one or more linguistically transformed keywords comprise a title search or a body search.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the presentation comprises a display of the meta-keyword.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise collecting feedback about the one or more linguistically transformed keywords based on particular tabbed pages selected by the user.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the search term includes one or more search terms, wherein one of the one or more search terms is the meta-keyword.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving a search term from a client machine of a user;

identifying, by a keyword provider, a meta-keyword corresponding to the search term, the meta-keyword having an “

is-a”

relationship with one or more words;

accessing one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider;

performing a search of the one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider, the performing of the search of the one or more keywords being based on the meta-keyword, the performing of the search of the one or more keywords resulting in an identification of one or more linguistically transformed keywords associated with the meta-keyword among the one or more keywords provided by the keyword provider;

performing an initial search of a data repository based on the search term received from the client machine of the user to obtain initial search results;

performing one or more additional searches of the data repository based on the one or more linguistically transformed keywords to obtain keyword search results; and

providing the initial search results and the keyword search results to the client machine for simultaneous presentation in a user interface of the client machine, the presentation comprising one or more tabbed pages, each tabbed page of the one or more tabbed pages including at least a portion of the initial search results, a linguistically transformed keyword of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords identified by the key word provider, and at least a portion of the keyword search results corresponding to a search performed based on the linguistically transformed keyword of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to receiving a selection of a tabbed page, displaying a respective portion of the keyword search results corresponding to a search performed based on a respective linguistically transformed keyword included in the tabbed page.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the one or more additional searches of the data repository based on the one or more linguistically transformed keywords are a title search or a body search.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the presentation comprises a display of the meta-keyword.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise collecting feedback about the one or more linguistically transformed keywords based on particular tabbed pages selected by the user.