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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2009
Liang Yu Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Liang Yu Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for generating search results including receiving a search request and accessing a corpus of data to determine relevant content for inclusion in a search result set on the basis of the search request. The method and system includes determining at least one pivot data point, the at least one pivot data point being contextually related to the search result set on the basis of a review of the search result set and generating an active data link for refinement of the search result set on the basis of the data pivot point. The method and system further includes generating a search result output display for the presentation of at least a portion of the search result set and the active data links and toggling the search result output display to present refinement of the search results set.