Search perceived performance

• US 10,467,238 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2016
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Loomans, Maykel Andreas Louisa Jozef Anna, Rothschild, Michael Yehuda, Trufinescu, Tudor M., Gupta, Nidhi
• Primary Examiner(s): Meng, Jau Shya
• Application Number:
  US14/992,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20170199916A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,394 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method including identifying an initial search result corresponding to a search query; concurrently displaying an animation for a context module comprising information associated with the initial search result and retrieving additional search results corresponding to the search query; and after the animation has completed, displaying information associated with the additional search results.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a client computing device, receiving a search query;

by the client computing device, retrieving, from a remote search backend, an initial search result corresponding to the search query;

by the client computing device, storing the initial search result in association with the search query in a local cache of the client computing device;

by the client computing device, rendering a search results page comprising a context module and a search results module, wherein the search results module is initially empty;

by the client computing device, concurrently;

displaying an animation indicating a progress of retrieving information for the search results page;

displaying the initial search result in the context module, the initial search result being accessed from the local cache; and

retrieving, from the remote search backend, additional search results corresponding to the search query, the additional search results being stored in a data store of the remote search backend; and

by the client computing device, after the animation has progressed, populating the search results module with the additional search results.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the initial search result in the context module comprises:

initially displaying a first portion of the initial search result in the context module; and

expanding to display additional portions of the initial search result in the context module.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after the displaying of the animation is completed, displaying a progress indicator while the additional search results are retrieved.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the additional search results are retrieved serially, and wherein the method further comprises displaying a respective progress indicator for each of the additional search results as it is retrieved.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each respective progress indicator provides an indication of a period of time estimated for retrieving the respective additional search result.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein search results corresponding to the search query are retrieved by a typeahead process, wherein as each additional character of the search query is received at the client computing device, the initial search result is updated and a new animation corresponding to the updated initial search result is initiated.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising displaying one or more suggested search queries in response to the typeahead process.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the suggested search queries are rendered in a drop-down menu of a user interface (UI) of the client computing device.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein:

each suggested search query is associated with a respective initial search result; and

each suggested search query is stored with the respective initial search result in the local cache of the client computing device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the initial search result comprises information from a third-party system or a trending topic of a social-networking system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the initial search result comprises a title.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving the additional search results comprises rendering one or more images of the additional search results separately from a remainder of the additional search results.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

initially rendering the images in a low-resolution; and

subsequently rendering the images in a high-resolution.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein:

one or more placeholder graphical elements are assigned as the initial search result in response to an unsuccessful retrieval of the initial search result from the cache; and

the displaying of the initial search result in the context module comprises displaying the one or more placeholder graphical elements in the context module.

15. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed by a processor to:

receive a search query;

retrieve, from a remote search backend, an initial search result corresponding to the search query;

store the initial search result in association with the search query in a local cache of a client computing device comprising the processor;

render a search results page comprising a context module and a search results module, wherein the search results module is initially empty;

concurrently;

display an animation indicating a progress of retrieving information for the search results page;

display the initial search result in the context module, the initial search result being accessed from the local cache; and

retrieve, from the remote search backend, additional search results corresponding to the search query, the additional search results being stored in a data store of the remote search backend; and

after the animation has progressed, populate the search results module with the additional search results.

16. The one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media of claim 15, wherein the software is further configured to:

initially display a first portion of the initial search result in the context module; and

expand to display additional portions of the initial search result in the context module.

17. The one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media of claim 15, wherein the software is further configured to, after the displaying of the animation is completed, display a progress indicator while the additional search results are retrieved.

18. The one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media of claim 15, wherein each of the additional search results are retrieved serially, and wherein a respective progress indicator is displayed for each of the additional search results as it is retrieved.

19. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor comprising instructions executable by the processor, wherein the instructions are executed by the processor to;

receive a search query;

retrieve, from a remote search backend, an initial search result corresponding to a search query;

store the initial search result in association with the search query in a local cache of the computing device;

render a search results page comprising a context module and a search results module, wherein the search results module is initially empty;

concurrently;

display an animation indicating a progress of retrieving information for the search results page;

display the initial search result in the context module, the initial search result being accessed from the local cache; and

retrieve, from the remote search backend, additional search results corresponding to the search query, the additional search results being stored in a data store of the remote search backend; and

after the animation has progressed, populate the search results module with the additional search results.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

initially display a first portion of the initial search result in the context module; and

expand to display additional portions of the initial search result in the context module.

21. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the software is further configured to, after the displaying of the animation is completed, display a progress indicator while the additional search results are retrieved.