Matrix view of items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10503785-B2
Application number	US-93766408-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2008
Priority date	Apr 25, 2008
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present a plurality of searched items by a plurality of points in a matrix view, which includes a first axis and a second axis, respectively representing a price attribute and one of other attributes of the plurality of items. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computerized method, comprising:
displaying, by one or more processors, a graphical user interface to present items, wherein the graphical user interface includes a filter to enable a user to enter search criteria for the items, the search criteria including a price attribute associated with the items and a value attribute associated with the items that is different than price;
receiving, by the one or more processors, search criteria entered in the filter, the value attribute being characterized by a user-defined numerical range;
generating an enlarged numerical search range based on the user-defined numerical range;
selecting, by the one or more processors, a plurality of items of interest from a collection of items by filtering the collection of items based on the enlarged numerical search range to include items having the value attribute with a value that falls within the user-defined numerical range and one or more items having the value attribute with a value that falls outside of the user-defined numerical range in the selected plurality of items; and
displaying, by the one or more processors, the plurality of items as points in a matrix view arranged with a horizontal axis to represent one of the price attribute of each of the plurality of items or the value attribute of each of the plurality of items, and a vertical axis to represent the other of the price attribute of each of the plurality of items or the value attribute of each of the plurality of items, each of the points visually presenting a value/price ratio of each of the plurality of items in a single view,
wherein said displaying comprises triggering, using the one or more processors, display of additional information related to an item in the matrix view in a pop-up window in response to a cursor moving over the item in the matrix view, the additional information including a hyper link, and
wherein the single view includes points in a main area that represent the items having the value attribute with the value that falls within the user-defined numerical range and points in an extra area outside the main area that represent items having the value attribute with the value that falls outside of the user-defined numerical range.

2. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying historical information provided by a third party in the matrix view to define a relationship, for each of the items, between the price attribute of the item and the value attribute of the item.

3. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
automatically adjusting a size of the matrix view to display all the items of interest in the single view.

4. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving selection of an area within the matrix view; and
zooming in on the selected area of the matrix view to display only those items located within the selected area.

5. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
highlighting a selected area within the matrix view; and
displaying a list to present list information relating to the items within the highlighted area.

6. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
marking at least one item in the matrix view; and
storing information relating to the at least one marked item into a favorite list.

7. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
marking a plurality of items in the matrix view; and
displaying information relating to only the marked plurality of items in a modified matrix view.

8. The computerized method of claim 1 , further comprising:
marking a plurality of items in the matrix view; and
displaying information relating to the marked plurality of items on a list.

9. An apparatus, comprising:
a browser module to perform a search to obtain a plurality of items based on a search query that includes search criteria for items, the search criteria comprising a price attribute and a value attribute that is characterized by a user-defined numerical range, the value attribute being different than price, the search based on an enlarged numerical search range generated from the user-defined numerical search range;
a storage device to store the plurality of items;
a display to display, on a page, the plurality of items as points in a matrix view, the matrix view including a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, the horizontal axis representing one of the price attribute of each of the plurality of items or the value attribute of each of the plurality of items, the vertical axis representing the other of the price attribute of each of the plurality of items or the value attribute of each of the plurality of items, each of the points visually presenting a value/price ratio of the plurality of items in a single view,
wherein the single view includes points in a main area that represent items having the value attribute with a value that falls within the user-defined numerical range and points in an extra area outside the main area that represent items having the value attribute with a value that falls outside the user-defined numerical range based on filtering a collection of items using the enlarged numerical search range to obtain the plurality of items; and
a user input device to receive the search query, the search query including the user-defined numerical range used to generate the enlarged numerical search range.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the user input device comprises at least one of a keyboard, a mouse, and a touch screen.

11. A system, comprising:
a browser module to perform a search to obtain a plurality of items based on a search query that includes search criteria, the search criteria comprising a price attribute and a value attribute that is characterized by a user-defined numerical range, the value attribute being different than price, the search based on an enlarged numerical search range that is generated from the user-defined numerical range;
a client computer including a display to present the plurality of items as a plurality of points in a matrix view, the matrix view including a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, the horizontal axis representing one of the price attribute of each of the plurality of items or the value attribute of each of the plurality of items, the vertical axis representing the other of the price attribute of each of the plurality of items or the value attribute of each of the plurality of items, each of the points visually presenting a value/price ratio of the plurality of items in a single view,
wherein the single view includes points in a main area that represent items having the value attribute with a value that falls within the user-defined numerical range and points in an extra area outside the main area that represent items having the value attribute with a value that falls outside the user-defined numerical range based on filtering a collection of items using the enlarged numerical search range to obtain the plurality of items;
a user input device to receive the search query, the search query including the user-defined numerical range used to generate the enlarged numerical search range; and
a server to communicate information, relevant to the plurality of items, to the client computer.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the browser module is divided between the client computer and the server.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the server comprises a plurality of computers coupled to a global computer network.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, perform operatio

Assignees

• Ma Ling
• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Ma Ling

Classifications

• G06F16/9038 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title