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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:
Sep. 09, 2008

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2004
Applicants:

Roberto Licon, El Paso, TX (US);

Andrew Bensky, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Erik Swan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Paul Ingram, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Naga Pappireddi, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael D. Fox, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Roberto Licon, El Paso, TX (US);

Andrew Bensky, Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Erik Swan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Paul Ingram, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Naga Pappireddi, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael D. Fox, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention provides a method for displaying information from the Internet. In one embodiment, the invention generates a plurality of content modules, each content module comprising a subset of the content of at least one web site. The content modules are then stored in a content module data directory. When a query is received from a user, the query is assigned to at least one content module. The results of the query are displayed on two regions of the user's screen. On a first region of the user's display screen a list of information relating to the plurality of retrieved web sites is displayed. On a second region of said display screen, information from said at least one content module associated with the query is displayed.


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