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US 8,413,063 B2Granted
Conversion and query for data dragged on web-sites
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsAron Spohr, Rajit Bhanu Singh
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Abstract
A service performs transformation for material that has been dragged in one format from a web-site and has to be transformed first in order to be dropped onto a different web-page. The transformation makes it possible for the target (drop) page to understand and process the data. A target page need only support one format rather than numerous possible formats used by source pages.
Claims20
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- detecting the start of a drag operation at a first location of first material in a first format;
- receiving the first material from the first location at a drag bar;
- detecting the start of a drag operation at a second location of second material in a second format;
- receiving the second material from the second location at the drag bar, wherein the second material includes a payment method or indication thereof;
- detecting a drag operation including both the first and second material at the drag bar;
- performing a conversion of the second material upon dropping the first and second material into a search engine;
- and
- fulfilling a query request via the search engine based upon both the first and second material, wherein fulfilling the query request includes searching a database to identify merchants that accept the payment method.
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A computer implemented method, comprising:
- detecting the start of a drag operation at a first location of a first grouping of first material;
- receiving the first material from the first location at a drag bar, the first material being in a first format;
- detecting the start of a drag operation at a second location of a second grouping of second material;
- receiving the second material from the second location at the drag bar, wherein receiving the second material from the second location at the drag bar includes receiving material including a payment method or indication thereof;
- detecting a drag operation including both the first and second material at the drag bar;
- performing a conversion of the second material;
- generating a query request from the first material and the second material;
- and
- fulfilling the query request based upon the first and second material, wherein fulfilling the query request includes searching a database to identify merchants that accept the payment method.
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A computer implemented method, comprising:
- detecting the start of a drag operation at a first location of a first grouping of first material indicative of an address or location;
- receiving the first material from the first location at a drag bar, the first material being in a first format;
- detecting the start of a drag operation at a second location of a second grouping of second material indicative of a good or service desired, the second material being in a second format;
- receiving the second material from the second location at the drag bar;
- detecting a drag operation including both the first and second material at the drag bar;
- performing a conversion of at least one of the first or second material;
- generating a query from the first material and the second material;
- executing the query to identify a merchant offering the good or service near the address or location;
- and
- presenting the results, the results indicating the merchant offering the good or service near the address or location.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon computer-readable instructions, comprising:
- instructions for detecting the start of a drag operation at a first location of first material in a first format;
- instructions for obtaining the first material from the first location at a drag bar;
- instructions for detecting the start of a drag operation at a second location of second material in either the first format or a second format;
- instructions for obtaining the second material from the second location at the drag bar, wherein obtaining the second material from the second location at the drag bar includes obtaining material indicating a good or service desired;
- instructions for detecting the start of a single drag operation including both the first and second material at the drag bar;
- instructions for performing a conversion of the second material upon dropping the first and second material into a search engine;
- and
- instructions for fulfilling a query request via the search engine based upon both the first and second material, wherein fulfilling the query request includes searching a database to identify merchants that offer the good or service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.