Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Diane Shambaugh

Romualdo T Impas

Jeff J Lin

Anne Loomis Thompson

Jungim Jang

Scott Scazafavo

Jun Liu

Arun Sacheti

Song Zou

Seung Yang

Paul Cutsinger

Parthasarathy Govindarajen

Xiaodong Fan

Robert E Corrington

Robert David Rugge

Derek Richard Westcott

Avinash Vemuluru

Nikita Astrakhantsev

Nektarios Ioannides

Thomas J Layson

Dong Han Wang

Liang Tang

Kathryn G Rasmussen

Gamage I Viriththamulla

Jalayne Taber Boni

Douglas Koenig

Nathan William Bower

Mun (Scott) Ying Leong

Alexander Jack Sunell

Alexandra Victoria Foote

Elena Usinskiene

Qianyue You

Souvick Sarkar

Adam Jeffrey Curtis

Jeffrey Roger Devries

The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.

Image reranking and presentation for visual exploration

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with an icon

Systems and methods for defining at least one visual-display characteristic of at least one user-interface control are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the invention, a dialog template specifies at least one style selector for the at least one user-interface control. A transformation module extracts the at least one style selector from the dialog template. A style sheet defines at least one visual-display-characteristic value that is applicable to the at least one user-interface control and that is associated with the at least one style selector. A style sheet-parsing engine uses the at least one style selector to retrieve the at least one visual-display-characteristic value from the style sheet. And a user-interface-control-drawing module draws the at least one user-interface control in accordance with the at least one visual-display-characteristic value retrieved by the style sheet-parsing engine.

Defining the visual appearance of user-interface controls

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Diane Shambaugh