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US 2009/0158204 A1Published application
Method for quickly viewing and comparing search results as small and enlarged images
OwnerMiguel Rochainventor
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Abstract
A method for providing search results to a client device using a search engine that presents a sequence of small images representing 100 percent of a first page of digital content simultaneously with a sequence of at least a portion of an identical page of digital content for quick viewing by a user, enabling a user to compare located information easily.
Claims10
A method for search digital content on a global communication network, comprising:
- a. enabling a user with a client device having a display, a first processor, a first processor input, and computer instructions in memory associated with the first processor enabling a client device pointer to query a search engine disposed in a first data storage associated with a second processor in communication with the global communications network;
- b. using the search engine and the global communications network, obtaining search results comprising digital content from at least one networked server;
- c. presenting the search results to the user simultaneously:
- (i) a sequence of small images on the display, wherein each small image represents 100 percent of a first page of each search result;
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- (ii) a sequence of enlarged images identical to the small images, wherein each enlarged image shows a portion of the small image;
- d. providing a pointer for rolling over at least one of the small images in the sequence of small images using the client device pointer enabling rapid viewing of at least one enlarged images from the sequence of enlarged images;
- e. enabling the user to use the client device pointer to select at least one of the enlarged images from the sequence of enlarged images and hyperlink into associated digital content in associated digital content data storage;
- f. providing an advertising area supporting at least one advertisement adjacent at least one of the enlarged images;
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- g. enabling the user to use the client device pointer to select at least one of the advertisements, and hyperlink to advertising digital content in advertising data storage.
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