User interfaces for a document search engine
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsSiraj Khaliq, Joe Sriver, Frederick Roeber, William Brougher, Adam Smith
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Abstract
A method includes receiving a search query, identifying a document based on the search query, and providing a search result based on the document. The search result includes, for example, an image associated with the document, an excerpt from the document that is associated with the search query, and links to other excerpts in the document that are associated with the search query. The method may also include providing other information associated with the document.
Claims52
A method, comprising:
- receiving a search query;
- identifying a document based on the search query;
- and
- providing a search result based on the document, the search result comprising:
- an image associated with the document,
- an excerpt from the document that is associated with the search query, and
- a plurality of links to other excerpts in the document that are associated with the search query.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- a plurality of search results associated with a corresponding plurality of documents, the search results being generated based on a search query, one of the search results comprising:
- an image associated with the document;
- an excerpt from the document that includes a search term of the search query;
- and
- a plurality of links to other excerpts in the document that include a search term of the search query.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- a set of links to portions of a document;
- an excerpt from the document, the excerpt comprising an image of text from the document;
- a description of content of the document;
- information regarding web documents associated with the document;
- and
- bibliographic information associated with the document.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- a page of a document, the page including a search term;
- a set of links to portions of the document;
- and
- a link to a next or previous page of the document that includes the search term.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- a first excerpt from a document, the first excerpt comprising a portion of text of a page of the document and a thumbnail image of the page;
- and
- a second excerpt from the document, the second excerpt comprising a portion of text of another page of the document and a thumbnail image of the other page.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- a set of images of a corresponding set of pages of a document that include a search term;
- a set of links associated with the set of images, each of the links permitting a larger view of the corresponding image to be presented;
- and
- a set of links to other portions of the document.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- information regarding a page of a document;
- and
- a set of links to previously accessed pages of the document, each of the links being generated based on a user accessing the previously accessed page.
A graphical user interface embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- information regarding a plurality of previously accessed pages associated with a plurality of documents, the information being generated based on a user accessing the previously accessed pages;
- and
- an image associated with one of the documents.
A system, comprising:
- means for providing information regarding a title of a document in a graphical user interface;
- means for providing a page of the document in the graphical user interface;
- means for providing a set of links to different portions of the document in the graphical user interface;
- and
- means for providing a set of links to previously accessed pages of the document in the graphical user interface.
A computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions, comprising:
- instructions for receiving a search query;
- instructions for identifying a document based on the search query;
- and
- instructions for providing a search result based on the document, the search result comprising:
- an excerpt from the document that includes a search term associated with the search query, and
- a plurality of links to other excerpts in the document that include a search term associated with the search query.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.