US20040100510A1 — User interface for a resource search tool

Claim 1

Independent Claim 107 words

1 . A method of annotating a representation of a search result target resource identified in a resource search based on at least one search criterion, the method comprising: generating the representation of the search result target resource; performing layout analysis of the search result target resource to identify one or more logical sections of the search result target resource; performing linguistic analysis of the search result target resource; bannotating the representation of the search result target resource based on the linguistic analysis to indicate at least one logical section of the search result target resource includes an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 107 words

1 . A method of annotating a representation of a search result target resource identified in a resource search based on at least one search criterion, the method comprising: generating the representation of the search result target resource; performing layout analysis of the search result target resource to identify one or more logical sections of the search result target resource; performing linguistic analysis of the search result target resource; bannotating the representation of the search result target resource based on the linguistic analysis to indicate at least one logical section of the search result target resource includes an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion.

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 26 words

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the representation of the search result target resource includes a thumbnail image of the search result target resource.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 17 words

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein the search result target resource includes a Web page.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 21 words

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein the resource search includes a Web search performed by a Web search engine.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 72 words

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion constitutes a hit and the annotating operation comprises: determining an existence of at least one hit in the at least one logical section; and inserting, into the representation of the search result target resource, at least one annotation indicating the existence of the at least one hit in the at least one logical section.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 58 words

6 . The method of claim 1 wherein the annotating operation comprises: determining a location of at least one hit within the at least one logical section; and inserting, into the representation of the search result target resource, at least one annotation indicating the location of the at least one hit in the at least one logical section.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 73 words

7 . The method of claim 1 wherein an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion constitutes a hit and the annotating operation comprises: determining a number of one or more hits contained in the at least one logical section; and inserting, into the representation of the search result target resource, at least one annotation indicating the number of one or more hits contained in the at least on logical section.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 25 words

8 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: caching results of the layout analysis and the linguistic analysis for use by the annotating operation.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 23 words

9 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: caching the search result target resource that includes the at least one logical section.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 18 words

10 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: caching the representation of the search result target resource.

Claim 12

Dependent Claim 23 words

11 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: caching search statistics for the search result target resource relating to the resource search.

Claim 13

Dependent Claim 56 words

12 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: generating a thumbnail image of a search results page that includes at least one search result referencing the at least one search result target resource; and annotating the thumbnail image of the search results page to indicate a relative strength of the at least one search result.

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 63 words

13 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: receiving a selection of an annotated logical section defined in the representation of the search result target resource; extracting resource data corresponding to the annotated logical section from the search result target resource; annotating the resource data corresponding to the annotated logical section to highlight an element satisfying the at least one search criterion.

Claim 15

Dependent Claim 25 words

14 . The method of claim 13 further comprising: reformatting the resource data corresponding to the annotated logical section for display on an incompatible display.

Claim 16

Dependent Claim 22 words

15 . The method of claim 1 wherein the resource search includes a search through cached data from a previous resource search.

Claim 17

Dependent Claim 62 words

16 . The method of claim 15 wherein an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion constitutes a hit, the cached data includes at least one search result target page, and further comprising: annotating a logical section of the search result target page to indicate that the logical section contains the most hits for display in a detailed view mode.

Claim 18

Dependent Claim 27 words

17 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: creating a searchable inverted index from the linguistic analysis of content elements of the search result target resource.

Claim 19

Dependent Claim 37 words

18 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: performing statistical analysis of the search result target resource; and creating a searchable inverted index from the statistical analysis of content elements of the search result target resource.

Claim 20

Dependent Claim 35 words

19 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: performing statistical analysis of the search result target resource; and caching results of the layout analysis and the statistical analysis for use by the annotation operation.

Claim 21

Dependent Claim 48 words

20 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: creating a searchable inverted index from the linguistic analysis of content elements of the search result target resource; and associating at least a portion of the searchable inverted index with a logical section of the search result target resource.

Claim 22

Dependent Claim 57 words

21 . The method of claim 1 further comprising: performing statistical analysis of the search result target resource; creating a searchable inverted index from the statistical analysis of content elements of the search result target resource; and associating at least a portion of the searchable inverted index with a logical section of the search result target resource.

Claim 23

Dependent Claim 123 words

22 . A computer program product encoding a computer program for executing on a computer system a computer process for annotating a representation of a search result target resource identified in a resource search based on at least one search criterion, the computer process comprising: generating the representation of the search result target resource; performing layout analysis of the search result target resource to identify one or more logical sections of the search result target resource; performing linguistic analysis of the search result target resource; annotating the representation of the search result target resource based on the linguistic analysis to indicate at least one logical section of the search result target resource includes an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion.

Claim 24

Dependent Claim 123 words

22 . A computer program product encoding a computer program for executing on a computer system a computer process for annotating a representation of a search result target resource identified in a resource search based on at least one search criterion, the computer process comprising: generating the representation of the search result target resource; performing layout analysis of the search result target resource to identify one or more logical sections of the search result target resource; performing linguistic analysis of the search result target resource; annotating the representation of the search result target resource based on the linguistic analysis to indicate at least one logical section of the search result target resource includes an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion.

Claim 25

Dependent Claim 28 words

23 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the representation of the search result target resource includes a thumbnail image of the search result target resource.

Claim 26

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24 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the search result target resource includes a Web page.

Claim 27

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25 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the resource search includes a Web search performed by a Web search engine.

Claim 28

Dependent Claim 74 words

26 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion constitutes a hit and the annotating operation comprises: determining an existence of at least one hit in the at least one logical section; and inserting, into the representation of the search result target resource, at least one annotation indicating the existence of the at least one hit in the at least one logical section.

Claim 29

Dependent Claim 59 words

27 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the annotating operation comprises: determining a location of at least one hit within the at least one logical section; and inserting, the representation of the search result target resource, at least one annotation indicating the location of the at least one hit in the at least one logical section.

Claim 30

Dependent Claim 74 words

28 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion constitutes a hit and the annotating operation comprises: determining a number of one or more hits contained in the at least one logical section; and inserting, the representation of the search result target resource, at least one annotation indicating the number of one or more hits contained in the at least on logical section.

Claim 31

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29 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: caching results of the layout analysis and the linguistic analysis for use by the annotating operation.

Claim 32

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30 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: caching the search result target resource that includes the at least one logical section.

Claim 33

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31 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: caching the representation of the search result target resource.

Claim 34

Dependent Claim 29 words

32 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: caching search statistics for the search result target resource relating to the resource search.

Claim 35

Dependent Claim 62 words

33 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: generating a thumbnail image of a search results page that includes at least one search result referencing the at least one search result target resource; and annotating the thumbnail image of the search results page to indicate a relative strength of the at least one search result.

Claim 36

Dependent Claim 69 words

34 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: receiving a selection of an annotated logical section defined in the representation of the search result target resource; extracting resource data corresponding to the annotated logical section from the search result target resource; annotating the resource data corresponding to the annotated logical section to highlight an element satisfying the at least one search criterion.

Claim 37

Dependent Claim 31 words

35 . The computer program product of claim 34 wherein the computer process further comprises: reformatting the resource data corresponding to the annotated logical section for display on an incompatible display.

Claim 38

Dependent Claim 24 words

36 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the resource search includes a search through cached data from a previous resource search.

Claim 39

Dependent Claim 64 words

37 . The computer program product of claim 36 wherein an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion constitutes a hit, the cached data includes at least one search result target page, and further comprising: annotating a logical section of the search result target page to indicate that the logical section contains the most hits for display in a detailed view mode.

Claim 40

Dependent Claim 33 words

38 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: creating a searchable inverted index from the linguistic analysis of content elements of the search result target resource.

Claim 41

Dependent Claim 43 words

39 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: performing statistical analysis of the search result target resource; and creating a searchable inverted index from the statistical analysis of content elements of the search result target resource.

Claim 42

Dependent Claim 41 words

40 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: performing statistical analysis of the search result target resource; and caching results of the layout analysis and the statistical analysis for use by the annotation operation.

Claim 43

Dependent Claim 54 words

41 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: creating a searchable inverted index from the linguistic analysis of content elements of the search result target resource; and associating at least a portion of the searchable inverted index with a logical section of the search result target resource.

Claim 44

Dependent Claim 63 words

42 . The computer program product of claim 22 wherein the computer process further comprises: performing statistical analysis of the search result target resource; creating a searchable inverted index from the statistical analysis of content elements of the search result target resource; and associating at least a portion of the searchable inverted index with a logical section of the search result target resource.

Claim 45

Dependent Claim 125 words

43 . A resource search tool for annotating a representation of a search result target resource identified in a resource search based on at least one search criterion, the resource search tool comprising: an image generator creating the representation of the search result target resource; a layout analysis module analyzing the layout of the search result target resource to identify one or more logical sections of the search result target resource; a linguistics analysis module performing linguistic analysis of the search result target resource; an annotation module annotating the representation of the search result target resource based on the linguistic analysis to indicate at least one logical section of the search result target resource includes an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion.

Claim 46

Dependent Claim 125 words

43 . A resource search tool for annotating a representation of a search result target resource identified in a resource search based on at least one search criterion, the resource search tool comprising: an image generator creating the representation of the search result target resource; a layout analysis module analyzing the layout of the search result target resource to identify one or more logical sections of the search result target resource; a linguistics analysis module performing linguistic analysis of the search result target resource; an annotation module annotating the representation of the search result target resource based on the linguistic analysis to indicate at least one logical section of the search result target resource includes an element that satisfies the at least one search criterion.

Claim 47

Dependent Claim 27 words

44 . The resource search tool of claim 43 wherein the representation the search result target resource includes a thumbnail image of the search result target resource.

User interface for a resource search tool

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