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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:
Dec. 29, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2007
Applicants:

Liang-yu Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ashley Hall, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Liang-Yu Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ashley Hall, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

YAHOO! INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 5/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30899 (2013.01); G06F 17/30873 (2013.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G06F 3/04812 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 5/08 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30884 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing contextual commands for affecting plurality of items in a search results page. The method of the present invention comprises displaying a search engine results page (SERP), said SERP comprising a plurality of search result resources and access to contextually relevant commands. At least one resource identifier is transmitted to a content provider with a request for a subsequent SERP and the subsequent SERP is modified based upon the at least one resource identifier. The subsequent SERP is provided and displayed on the end user device.


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