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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:
Sep. 30, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2012
Applicants:

Jeff Reynar, New York, NY (US);

Kushal B. Dave, New York, NY (US);

Eric S. Flatt, New York, NY (US);

Michael Stuart Gordon, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Jeremy A. Hylton, Easton, PA (US);

James K. Scott, New York, NY (US);

Oren Eli Zamir, Nyack, NY (US);

Jeffrey L. Korn, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jeff Reynar, New York, NY (US);

Kushal B. Dave, New York, NY (US);

Eric S. Flatt, New York, NY (US);

Michael Stuart Gordon, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Jeremy A. Hylton, Easton, PA (US);

James K. Scott, New York, NY (US);

Oren Eli Zamir, Nyack, NY (US);

Jeffrey L. Korn, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30038 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces for improved searching via user specified ratings are disclosed. A rating icon for a document in a group of documents is provided. A user rates the document in the group of documents by performing a selection operation on the rating icon. A user-specific rating for the document is generated based on the user rating. A search request is received from a user. A plurality of documents that satisfy the search request are identified (including a first respective document which not previously been rated by the user but is in the group of documents that included the rated document.) A response to the search request is sent. The response includes instructions to display a ranked set of links to at least some of the documents that satisfy the search request including a link to the first respective document displayed with the user-specific rating.


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