Patent ID: 11954096
Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
a) establishing item records in a database, the item records having attributes;
b) performing a search on the item records to return a found set of item records;
c) establishing facets based on the attributes contained in the found set of item records;
d) identifying a first facet modification that matches a plurality of item records in the found set of item records, the first facet modification being associated with first query information;
e) identifying a second facet modification that matches a first subset of the plurality of item records, where in second subset of the plurality of item records matches the first facet modification but does not match the second facet modification;
f) presenting a first query created based on the first query information to a user interface;
g) receiving first input from the user interface in response to the first query;
h) altering the first input based on the first facet modification to generate a first facet search parameter for the second subset of the plurality of item records and performing a first facet search on the second subset of the plurality of item records based on the first facet search parameter;
i) altering the first input based on the second facet modification to generate a second facet search parameter for the first subset of the plurality of item records and performing a second facet search on the first subset of the plurality of item records based on the second facet search parameter; and
j) presenting results of the first facet search and the second facet search to the user interface.