System and method for displaying timeline search results
OwnerAravind Musuluriinventor
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Abstract
Methods and Systems to display the results of a search operation are provided. More particularly the invention relates to a method to display search results comprising a relevant portion of the data in timeline. The method comprising displaying said results; said display comprising a extract preserving the timeline event properties. The extract may further comprise of one or more timeline properties.
Claims3
A method executable on a computing device comprising a processor, memory and a storage unit to display results of a search operation on at least one data source(s) comprising documents, said method comprising:
- (a) accepting a search query comprising keyword(s) from a user;
- (b) generating search results by identifying documents comprising the keyword(s) in response to the search query;
- (c) identifying search results comprising the keyword(s) in a timeline in the documents;
- (d) extracting, by the processor, from the timeline a portion of a relevant timeline item;
- wherein the relevant timeline item contains the keyword(s);
- and a portion of additional timeline item(s) selected from a first timeline item and/or last timeline item;
- (e) constructing, by the processor, a search result snippet for the timeline comprising the portion of the relevant timeline item;
- and the portion of additional timeline item(s);
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- (f) returning the search results comprising the search result snippet.
A method executable on a computing device comprising a processor, memory and a storage unit to display results of a search operation on at least one data source(s) comprising documents, said method comprising:
- (a) accepting a search query comprising keyword(s) from a user;
- (b) generating search results by identifying documents comprising the keyword(s) in response to the search query;
- (c) identifying search results comprising the keyword(s) in a timeline in the documents;
- (d) determining, by the processor, timeline properties for the timeline, wherein said determination comprises computing a data range, a timespan, and/or a number of events;
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- (e) Returning the search results comprising the timeline properties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.