Changing results after back button use or duplicate request

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9129018-B2
Application number	US-201213451884-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 20, 2012
Priority date	Apr 20, 2012
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

Enhancements of the user experience are provided when a user returns to a previously viewed page, such as a previously viewed page of search results. When a user returns to a previously viewed page, additional context information from a user's actions since the initial view of a page can be used to modify the previously viewed page and/or obtain a new version of the previously viewed page. In situations where the previously viewed page corresponds to a page of responsive results from a search engine, the modified and/or new version of the search engine results page can include an expanded or reduced group of results, different types of results, different rankings for existing results, or a combination thereof.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for providing search results, comprising:
a processor and an associated memory, the associated memory containing computer-executable instructions, the processor executing the computer-executable instructions to provide a method comprising:
receiving a first query;
displaying a first results page corresponding to the first query, the first results page including a first plurality of links or link groups corresponding to responsive results;
rece…

Assignees

• Kohavi Ron
• Xu Ya
• Singh Noor-E-Gagan
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Kohavi Ron
• Xu Ya
• Singh Noor-E-Gagan

Classifications

• G06F17/30873

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30864 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/951 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/9538 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/954

  Physics · mapped topic