Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Providing a search-result filters toolbar
- Patent Title (中): 提供搜索结果过滤器工具栏
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Application No.: US12432846Application Date: 2009-04-30
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Publication No.: US08862574B2Publication Date: 2014-10-14
- Inventor: Stephen M. Yolleck , Jay C. Jacobs
- Applicant: Stephen M. Yolleck , Jay C. Jacobs
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agent Dave Ream; Leonard Smith; Micky Minhas
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06F7/00

Abstract:
Computer-readable media and methods to provide a toolbar application are described. The toolbar application receives indicators for determining when a context-specific search is executed. The toolbar application monitors uniform resource locator (URL) addresses to which a browser navigates for the inclusion of an indicator. Upon identifying an indicator in a URL the toolbar application presents filters that are associated with the indicator in a toolbar user interface. A user's selection of one or more of the filters is received at the toolbar user interface and the corresponding filters are applied to the context-specific search results by modifying the identified URL with a modifier associated with a selected filter and causing the browser or search engine to re-execute the search query with the selected filters applied. The filtered search results are presented to the user. The toolbar user interface is modified to indicate the application of the selected filters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100281417A1 PROVIDING A SEARCH-RESULT FILTERS TOOLBAR Public/Granted day:2010-11-04
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