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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. 20, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2005
Applicants:

Chad Carson, Redwood City, CA (US);

Douglas M. Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kalpana Ravinarayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chad Carson, Redwood City, CA (US);

Douglas M. Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kalpana Ravinarayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques are provided for generating search results that include, instead of or in addition to the traditional abstract links, other links to content that the user of a search engine may consider helpful. These other links are referred to herein as 'non-traditional abstract links'. In general, the search engine generates non-traditional abstract links that attempt to anticipate the 'next move' by the search engine user. By selecting a non-traditional abstract link from the abstract of a matching resource, the user is able to navigate from the search result listing directly to locations other than the top of a matching resource.


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