Patent ID: 9582146
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: causing a list of search results to be displayed, each of the search results being caused to be displayed with a number of elements of associated information comprising data items, data files, or datasets, wherein the number is greater than or equal to zero, wherein each of the search results in the list is associated with a search result category, wherein a first search result is associated with a first search result category, and wherein a second search result is associated with a second search result category, different from the first search result category, wherein the first search result category comprises a contact, wherein the second search result category comprises a location name; after a predetermined time period in which no user input is received, causing the number of elements of associated information that are displayed for each of plural ones of the search results to be increased in response to the number of elements of associated information displayed for each of the plural ones of the search results not reaching a maximum number of elements of information for the associated search result category for each respective one of the plural ones of the search results, wherein causing the number of elements of associated information that are displayed to be increased comprises determining the elements of associated information for each of the search results based on the associated search result category, wherein a first information element associated with the first search result category is an email address or a phone number, and wherein a first information element associated with the second search result category is a location address; and in response to a user initiated scroll command after the number of elements of associated information that are caused to be displayed for each of plural ones of the search results has been increased, causing the number of elements of associated information that are displayed to be decreased.