US 7,627,826 B2Granted

System for organization, display, and navigation of digital information

AssigneeThird Generation Search, Ltd

InventorMatthew Pry

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Abstract

A system and method for the organization, display, and navigation of digital information. The system allows for the easy navigation of a primary source of information, as well as the navigation of secondary information related to the primary information source. The system may be used to organize, display, or navigate any type of digital information, but is primarily intended to be used to organize, display, or navigate the results of a web based search engine. Primary source information is displayed in a search results window while secondary information is displayed in an operational window. The primary source information may be displayed as thumbnail images of web pages that satisfy a search request. The user may scroll through the thumbnail images of the web pages of the primary information source and navigate web pages of interest in the operational window.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A computer system for organizing, displaying, and navigating web search engine results, comprising:

a web server with a web server application for locating a plurality of web pages responsive to a search request from a user;
a user computer in communication with said web server for receiving from said web server at least a subset of said plurality of web pages responsive to said search request;
a secondary search results database for storing web pages selected for viewing from said plurality of web pages response to said search request;
a search results display window at said user computer comprising a primary search results section and a secondary search results section, wherein:
(a) said primary search results section displays web pages from said plurality of web pages responsive to said search request and comprises a primary scrolling function for viewing said web pages in said primary search results section;
and
(b) said secondary search results section displays only web pages selected for viewing from said primary search results section of said search results display window and comprises a secondary scrolling function for viewing said web pages selected for viewing from said primary search results section;
an operational window at said user computer independent of said search results display window for viewing and navigating individual web pages selected from said primary search results,
wherein;
(a) said individual web pages appear in said operational window when selected from said primary search results section;
(b) said individual web page are added to said secondary search results database when selected from said primary search results section;
(c) said individual web pages appear in said secondary search results section according to an order in which individual web pages are selected from said primary search results section for viewing in said operational window.

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A method for presenting web search engine results at a user computer comprising:

(a) receiving at a web server search criteria from a user computer;
(b) identifying a plurality of web pages that match said search criteria from said user computer;
(c) transmitting to said user computer data for said pages that match said search criteria from said user computer;
(d) displaying in a first browser window at said user computer:
(1) a primary search results section displaying only web pages from said plurality of web pages, said primary search results section comprising a primary scrolling function for viewing in said primary search results section web pages from said plurality of web pages;
and
(2) a secondary search results section displaying only web pages selected for viewing from said primary search results section, said secondary results section comprising a secondary scrolling function for viewing in said secondary search results web pages selected from said primary search results section;
(e) displaying said web pages in said primary search results section of said first web browser window at said user computer;
(f) displaying in a second web browser window at said user computer web pages selected at said user computer from said primary search results section of said first web browser window;
(g) adding said selected web pages to a secondary search results database comprising only web pages selected from said primary search results section;
(h) displaying said selected web pages in said secondary search results section of said first browser window at said user computer to create a history of web pages selected only from said primary search results section.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/131,690Filed 2 Jun 2008 · continuation
Priority: 13 Sep 2004
Published: US 2008/0276185 A16 Nov 2008
Granted: 1 Dec 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06F 16/954
Retrieval from the web: navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application10/940,290Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Sep 2004
US 2008/0276185 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Nov 2008
US 7,383,510 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2006/0059440 A1Published application
US 7,627,826 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.