System to provide search results via a user-configurable table

A system to provide a user-configurable graphical user interface, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory accessible to the processor to store instructions comprising a plurality of instructions executable by the processor to:
• group subsets of a set of search results into a plurality of categories;
• generate window including a graphical user interface operable to display a table comprising a plurality of sub-tables, each sub-table associated with a particular category of the plurality of categories and including a subset of the set of search results;
• generate at least one global control element associated with the table within the generated window and accessible to a user to sort the plurality of sub-tables into a user-selected order in response to user selection of the at least one global control element;
• and
• generate a plurality of local control elements within the generated window, each sub-table of the plurality of sub-tables associated with at least one local control element of the plurality of local control elements, the at least one local control element accessible to the user to selectively sort the subset of the search results in response to user selection of the at least one local control element and without concurrently sorting subsets within other sub-tables of the plurality of sub-tables.

A search system comprising:

• an interface responsive to a network to receive search results from one or more data sources;
• a visualization generation module to generate a table comprising a plurality of sub-tables related to a respective plurality of categories;
• an analysis module adapted to group the received search results into subsets of search results related to particular categories of the plurality of categories, each search result is associated with at least one of the plurality of categories;
• and
• a graphical user interface (GUI) generation module to generate a GUI including the table, the GUI further comprising:
• a first global control element accessible to a user to selectively sort the plurality of sub-tables into a first user-selected order based on the respective plurality of categories;
• and
• a first local control element associated with a first sub-table of the plurality of sub-tables, the first local control element accessible to the user to selectively sort a first subset of the search results associated with the first sub-table without altering a second subset of the search results within a second sub-table.