Verizon Laboratories Inc.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Sharon Marie Walker

Zhiying Jin

Fenglin Yin

Hannah Youngsil Moon

David Anthony Philbin

Jennifer Logan Stelling

Demetrios Karis

William Christopher Smith

John S Huitema

A map-based search application for map-based category navigation includes geographic data, category data, and categorized data comprising at least one item, wherein each item is associated with each of the geographic data and the category data. Accordingly, a user is enabled to search for categorized data that satisfies at least one condition related to the geographic data and at least one condition related to the category data. The invention further comprises a display for displaying a list of results from a search, wherein the list comprises the at least one item.

Hierarchical category index navigational system

A graphical user interface (GUI) includes an icon stack comprising a plurality of icons in an area within the GUI, whereby the icons overlap. The GUI further includes at least one interstitial navigation box that is capable of displaying information about at least one item associated with one of the icons.

Stackable icons

Hierarchial category index navigational system

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Coppell, TX, United States of America

Sharon Marie Walker