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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2016
Applicant:

Lexisnexis, a Division of Reed Elsevier Inc., Miamisburg, OH (US);

Inventors:

Richard D. Miller, Yellow Springs, OH (US);

Jacob Aaron Myers, Dayton, OH (US);

Todd J. Frascone, Donnelsville, OH (US);

Gaurav Mehra, Mason, OH (US);

Ronald C. Haines, Springboro, OH (US);

Philip Wittmer, Dayton, OH (US);

Yangguang Li, Bloomington, IN (US);

Assignee:

RELX INC., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/34 (2019.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/325 (2019.01); G06F 16/345 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 17/241 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for displaying a visualizable results list in response to an electronic search request are disclosed. A method includes accessing metadata for each of a plurality of search results that result from a search query, annotating one or more locations in each search result with first and second indicators for each of one or more grouped search terms in first and second units based on the metadata, and displaying a visualizable results list that includes the plurality of search results and a corresponding hit pattern for each search result. The hit pattern includes the first indicator and the second indicator.


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