Art search results

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2015178409-A1
Application number	US-201314138098-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 22, 2013
Priority date	Dec 22, 2013
Publication date	Jun 25, 2015
Grant date	—

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating an interactive map with art search results. For example, an art search query may be received (e.g., a user may submit a query “French Cubism”). A set of art search results, such as artwork, artists, galleries, geographical locations and/or other art search results, may be identified based upon the art search query. An interactive map may be populated with the set of art search results. For example, the interactive map may be populated with map pins representing galleries that display French Cubist artwork. Various task completion functionality may be supported, such as travel planning to a gallery, purchasing prints, reserving gallery tickets, sharing art search results through a social network, etc. In this way, the user may explore artwork and/or locations, such as galleries, that display such artwork.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for populating an interactive map with art search results, comprising:
receiving an art search query; identifying a set of art search results associated with the art search query; and populating an interactive map with the set of art search results.

2 . The method of claim 1 , the art search query comprising at least one of an artist name, a gallery name, an art style, an artwork name, an artist nationality, an art type, a geographical location, an art period, a century, a tag, or a combination one or more query categories.

3 . The method of claim 1 , the art search query received through at least one of an operating system search interface, an entity summary interface, a search website, a social network search interface, a map app, a travel app, or an art app.

4 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
displaying the interactive map through at least one of an app, a website, a search engine results page, an mobile alert, or an operating system search interface.

5 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
populating an art search result interface associated with the interactive map based upon the set of art search results.

6 . The method of claim 5 , the populating an art search result interface comprising:
organizing the set of art search results based upon a hierarchical ordering of organization art categories to create a hierarchical set of art search results; and populating the art search result interface with the hierarchical set of art search results.

7 . The method of claim 5 , comprising:
displaying an organization art category through the art search result interface; and responsive to a selection of the organization art category, displaying one or more art search results, of the set of art search results, corresponding to the organization art category.

8 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
responsive to a selection of a first art search result within the interactive map, displaying an information interface comprising first art information associated with the first art search result.

9 . The method of claim 8 , the first art information comprising at least one of an image of an art gallery, an image of artwork, an image of an artist, a gallery description, an art style, an art type, an art period, a century, a tag, geographical information, or an artist description.

10 . The method of claim 8 , the first art search result corresponding to a gallery, and the method comprising:
populating the information interface with a plurality of art interfaces corresponding to artwork maintained by the gallery; and facilitating visual navigation between respective art interfaces.

11 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
responsive to receiving a tag input associated with a first art search result, tagging the first art search result based upon the tag input.

12 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
responsive to receiving an add to favorites input associated with a first art search result, adding the first art search result to a favorites list associated with a user.

13 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
responsive to a selection of a first art search result, transitioning to an app populated with information contextually relevant to the first art search result.

14 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
responsive to a selection of a first art search result, transitioning to a website populated with information contextually relevant to the first art search result.

15 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
embedding the interactive map within a search engine results page.

16 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
populating the interactive map with a task completion interface comprising task completion functionality.

17 . The method of claim 16 , the task completion functionality comprising at least one of travel planning functionality, purchase art functionality, reserve gallery tickets functionality, post to social network functionality, email functionality, or shopping functionality.

18 . A system for populating an interactive map with art search results, comprising:
an art information component configured to:
receive an art search query;
identify a set of art search results associated with the art search query; and
populate an interactive map with the set of art search results.

19 . The system of claim 18 , the art information component configured to:
populate an art search result interface associated with the interactive map based upon the set of art search results.

20 . A computer readable medium comprising instructions which when executed perform a method for populating an interactive map with art search results, comprising:
receiving an art search query; identifying a set of art search results associated with the art search query; and populating an interactive map with the set of art search results.

Assignees

• Microsoft Corp

Inventors

• Kernan Brian
• Dang Mai
• George Ajesh

Classifications

• G06F16/904 Primary

  Browsing; Visualisation therefor (for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957) · CPC title

• G06F16/9038

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F17/30994 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/3028

  Physics · mapped topic