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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:
May. 28, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2008
Applicants:

Peter Anick, Marlborough, MA (US);

Ryan Grove, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeremy Hubert, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Peter Anick, Marlborough, MA (US);

Ryan Grove, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeremy Hubert, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

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

To adapt search results to a user's needs, the search results display is modified based on the user's selections within the search results. Based on the user selections within the search results, the original search results may be ranked and/or ordered based on relevance to the selected search results. Based on the user selections within the search results, a new search criteria may be generated and presented to the user as a suggested search criteria. Based on the user selections within the search results, a new search may be performed to obtain new search results.


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