Yahoo! Inc.

Excalibur IP, LLC

Alicia Korn

Guilherme De Barros Chapiewski

Andrew Poon

Scott Richard Andress

Rafael Vasconcellos Coelho

Carrie Christina Merry Barkema

Vanessa Ilona Grass

Conrad Wai

Michael Eric Plasmeier

Arnabnil Bhattacharjee

Ivan Young Lee

Abhay K Gupta

Brian Coe

Guy Hepworth

Yihong Zhao

A modular search object framework provides modular search results including entity and non-entity search results. The framework includes circuitry that outputs an interactive entity section based on an online search. The interactive section includes a plurality of moveable visual objects, such as cards that can be shuffled, flipped, or swiped around.

Modular search object framework

A modular search object framework provides modular search results including entity search results reflecting the intent of a searcher. Also, an interface (such as a graphical user interface provided by the framework), aids in organizing results (such as links, titles, and description) according to the intent of the user as manifest in the search query and interactions with the interface. Circuitry of the framework also predicts user intent from historical information corresponding to the searcher (or to a group with which the searcher is associated).

Intent based search results associated with a modular search object framework

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

One or more messages may be selected and grouped and one or more group-level actions may be initiated for the group, such that the group-level action is performed on each message in the group. Each message in a group shares the at least one attribute value. A messaging user interface may comprise a listing of the set of messages and a message group display portion that displays one or more message groups and a group-level toolbar comprising a selectable indicator for each group-level action. A message, or messages, shown in a message list portion of the user interface may be selected from the message list based on similarity of the message(s) to previously selected messages, and the selected message(s) may be grouping based on shared attribute values. The messages belonging to a group may be modified in the same way via a single action taken on the group.

Method and apparatus for facilitating message selection and organization with group-level actions

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