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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2009
Zachary Mark Gutt, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Ronald Ray, Redmond, WA (US);
Rodney Coleman Edwards, New York, NY (US);
Darwin Kengo Yamamoto, New York, NY (US);
Hady Moustafa Abou El Kheir, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brian Whalen Macdonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jerry Daniel Bain, Seattle, WA (US);
Zachary Mark Gutt, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Ronald Ray, Redmond, WA (US);
Rodney Coleman Edwards, New York, NY (US);
Darwin Kengo Yamamoto, New York, NY (US);
Hady Moustafa Abou El Kheir, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brian Whalen MacDonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jerry Daniel Bain, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations for a set of objects in response to a user interaction with an interface that displays the three-dimensional representations or the two-dimensional representations. The interface includes filter controls, sorting controls, and classification controls, which are dynamically altered based on the content of a user query or the attributes of the objects in the three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations.