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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jason M. Blackwell, Vestal, NY (US);
Kevin Chiu, New York, NY (US);
Claude J. Elie, Vestal, NY (US);
Kimberly Knight, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Beverly M. Lovelace, Raleigh, NC (US);
John E. MacDonald, IV, Apalachin, NY (US);
Matthew Starr, Vestal, NY (US);
Marc Wisniewski, Hawthorne, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention provides a method for control for persistent search results and iterative searching where a query from a user is received via a web browser and a web search for the query is performed with a processor. Search results of the web search are displayed in a toolbar of the web browser, wherein at least one of the search results in the toolbar includes a refinement option. The refinement option can include a show me more like this refinement option and/or a show me less like this refinement option. A selected refinement option is received from the user with a user interface; and, refined search results are displayed in the toolbar based on the selected refinement option.