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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2007
Jeffrey T. Brownell, Seattle, WA (US);
John D. Rodgers, Seattle, WA (US);
Christel C. Berg, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey T. Brownell, Seattle, WA (US);
John D. Rodgers, Seattle, WA (US);
Christel C. Berg, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for providing multiple level text cloud navigation are described, where various categories are displayed in a first text cloud and, when a category is selected, a second text cloud is displayed having child nodes of the selected category and selected lower level nodes. The categories, child nodes, and selected other nodes are displayed using an importance identifier indicative of the number of results in that category or node, a relative importance thereof, a similarities metric, a recommendations metric, or the like.