Providing an interface to access website actions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8996513-B2
Application number	US-201213556659-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2012
Priority date	Jul 24, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Providing an interface to request actions of a website includes various elements. For example, website instructions of the website are provided to a search engine, the website instructions describing the website tool. The website instructions may be indexed by the search engine to be referenced when servicing a search query. When the website is deemed relevant to the search query, a search-result snippet may be built to include the interface to the website tool. As such, the interface may be provided in the search-results webpage. The interface may be used in the search-results webpage or may be stored locally. The interface may be used to access the website tool without a browser navigating to a landing page of the website.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer memory device storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method of constructing a search-result snippet of a website, the method comprising:
receiving by a search engine a search query;
determining that the website is relevant to the search query, wherein the website provides a website tool that converts a document from a first format to a second format;
constructing the search-result snippet to include an in…

Assignees

• El Daher Antoine
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• El Daher Antoine

Classifications

• G06F16/951 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/9577 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04H60/85

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F17/30905

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30864 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic