International Business Machines Corporation

Claude J Elie

Jason Matthew Blackwell

Matthew Starr

Marc Wisniewski

Kimberly Knight

John E MacDonald, Iv

Kevin Chiu

Beverly M Lovelace

Danny R Hager

Clare T Kibler

An embodiment of the invention provides a method for control for persistent search results and iterative searching where a query from a user is received via a web browser and a web search for the query is performed with a processor. Search results of the web search are displayed in a toolbar of the web browser, wherein at least one of the search results in the toolbar includes a refinement option. The refinement option can include a show me more like this refinement option and/or a show me less like this refinement option. A selected refinement option is received from the user with a user interface; and, refined search results are displayed in the toolbar based on the selected refinement option.

Control for persistent search results and iterative searching

A system and method of web searching is provided. The method comprises defining one or more user preferred categories and conducting a search within the one or more user preferred categories based upon search criteria by comparing the search criteria to content information within each of the one or more user preferred categories. The method further includes displaying search results associated with each of the preferred categories which have matching criteria based on the conducted search.

Faceted web searches of user preferred categories throughout one or more taxonomies

The present invention provides a GUI, method, system and program product for generating usability data for a remote computer user. The GUI consumes minimal screen real estate and remains on top of all other applications. The GUI generally includes a timer for timing a task of the remote computer user; a task title field for displaying a title corresponding to the task; a comment entry field for inputting comments corresponding to a performance of the task by the remote computer user; and a way to indicate a type of each of the comments input. As the remote computer user performs a task, a tester will input comments using the GUI, and then assign each comment a type. A numerical count is maintained for certain types of comments. Usability data is generated based on the comments, the types and the numerical counts.

Graphical user interface (GUI), method, system and program product for generating usability data for a remote computer user

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Claude J Elie