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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2011
Daniel Marantz, Bellevue, WA (US);
Keith Alan Regier, Kirkland, WA (US);
Tejas Girish Nadkarni, Bellevue, WA (US);
Diana Hsu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Daniel Marantz, Bellevue, WA (US);
Keith Alan Regier, Kirkland, WA (US);
Tejas Girish Nadkarni, Bellevue, WA (US);
Diana Hsu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for maximizing information associated with content items on a search engine results page are provided. A total number of pixels available on the search engine results page is determined, and content items are received in response to a search query. Templates are selected from a set of pre-generated templates, and the content items are initially assigned to the templates such that a number of content items is maximized on the search engine results page. Next, and starting with the highest-ranked content item, an optimal size is determined for each of the templates such that the content-item-per-pixel is maximized within each template. After resizing the templates to the optimal size, the content items are presented on the search engine results page.