User interface generation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10459992-B2
Application number	US-201514883900-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2015
Priority date	Oct 15, 2015
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

As provided herein, a user of a client device may perform a search to generate a search results webpage. The search results webpage may be populated with links to webpages along with selection options used to selectively designate which webpages to open. The user may select one or more of the selection options, such as a first selection option for a first webpage and a third selection option for a third webpage. Accordingly, the first webpage may be presented within a first user interface tab and the third webpage may be presented within a second user interface tab (e.g., the first user interface tab may be presented within a foreground and the second user interface tab may be presented within a background based upon the user selecting the first selection option before the second selection option). In this way, the user may selectively open webpages within user interface tabs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A client device for interface generation, the client device comprising:
a processor;
a display; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed on the processor, provide a system comprising:
an interface generation component configured to:
responsive to a user of the client device performing a search, generate a search results webpage, the search results webpage concurrently comprising:
a first graphical element comprising:
 a first link to a first webpage; and
 a first selection option associated with the first link;
a second graphical element comprising:
 a second link to a second webpage; and
 a second selection option associated with the second link;

determine to the user (i) selecting the first selection option at a first time causing the first graphical element in the search results webpage to be changed to an updated first graphical element visually distinguished from the first graphical element, (ii) selecting the second selection option at a second time causing the second graphical element in the search results webpage to be changed to an updated second graphical element visually distinguished from the second graphical element, and (iii) selecting an open selected option in the search results webpage while the first selection option and the second selection option are both selected and the updated first graphical element and the updated second graphical element are both displayed; and
responsive to the selection of the open selected option while the first selection option and the second selection option are both selected, concurrently:
present the first webpage on the client device based upon the selection of the first selection option associated with the first link to the first webpage;
populate the second webpage in a background on the client device based upon the selection of the second selection option associated with the second link to the second webpage; and
present an option, to view the second webpage, in a location visible to the user viewing the first webpage.

2. The client device of claim 1 , the interface generation component configured to:
congruently present the first webpage and populate the second webpage based upon the selection of the open selected option.

3. The client device of claim 1 , the user selecting the first selection option comprising at least one of:
selecting an element, on the search results webpage, associated with the first link; or
gesturing across the first link in a direction.

4. The client device of claim 1 , the user selecting the second selection option comprising at least one of:
selecting a second element, on the search results webpage, associated the second link; or
gesturing across the second link in a first direction.

5. The client device of claim 1 , the interface generation component configured to:
responsive to the user selecting the first selection option and selecting the second selection option, perform a multi-browser operation to open the first webpage within a first user interface tab and the second webpage within a second user interface tab.

6. The client device of claim 5 , the interface generation component configured to:
concurrently populate the first user interface tab with the first webpage and the second user interface tab with the second webpage.

7. The client device of claim 5 , the interface generation component configured to:
present the first webpage through the first user interface tab in a foreground;
present the second webpage through the second user interface tab in the background; and
responsive to the user selecting the second user interface tab:
transition the first webpage from the foreground to at least one of the background, a hidden state, or a closed state; and
transition the second webpage from the background to the foreground.

8. The client device of claim 7 , the interface generation component configured to:
responsive to the user selecting a cancel option on the second user interface tab:
transition the first webpage into the foreground; and
transition the second webpage into at least one of the background or the hidden state.

9. The client device of claim 1 , the search results webpage comprising a third link to a third webpage and a third selection option, and the interface generation component configured to:
responsive to the user selecting the open selected option while the third selection option is unselected, hide the third link and the third selection option.

10. The client device of claim 1 , the search results webpage comprising a third link to a third webpage and a third selection option, and the interface generation component configured to:
responsive to the user selecting the third selection option and selecting the open selected option, populate the third webpage in the background of the client device.

11. The client device of claim 10 , the interface generation component configured to:
populate a third user interface tab with the third webpage after populating a second user interface tab with the second webpage based upon the user selecting the third selection option at a third time exceeding second time.

12. The client device of claim 10 , the interface generation component configured to:
responsive to the user gesturing across the third link in a direction, remove the third link from the search results page.

13. A method of interface generation comprising:
responsive to a user of a client device performing a search, generating a search results webpage, the search results webpage concurrently comprising:
a first graphical element comprising:
a first link to a first webpage; and
a first selection option associated with the first link;

a second graphical element comprising:
a second link to a second webpage; and
a second selection option associated with the second link;

responsive to the user selecting the first selection option at a first time:
changing the first graphical element in the search results webpage to an updated first graphical element visually distinguished from the first graphical element;
populating the first webpage in a background on the client device; and
presenting a first list element, corresponding to the first webpage, on the client device, the first list element overlaying the search results webpage; and

responsive to the user selecting the second selection option at a second time:
changing the second graphical element in the search results webpage to an updated second graphical element visually distinguished from the second graphical element;
populating the second webpage in the background on the client device; and
presenting a second list element, corresponding to the second webpage, on the client device, the second list element listed with the first list element, the second list element overlaying the search results webpage; and

responsive to the user selecting an open selected option in the search results webpage, presenting a second results webpage on the client device, wherein the second results webpage comprises a first representation of the first webpage and a second representation of the second webpage.

14. The method of claim 13 , the first time preceding the second time.

15. The method of claim 13 , the user selecting the first selection option comprising at least one of:
selecting an element, on the search results webpage, associated with the first link; or
gesturing across the first link in a direction.

16. The method of claim 13 , comprising:
generating the first list element to comprise an identifier of a domain associated with

Assignees

• Oath Inc

Inventors

• Ghanekar Amol
• Peng John
• Narayanan Bharadhwaj
• Miller David Brandon
• Autuchirayll Arun Krishnankutty

Classifications

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F16/9538 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title