Patent ID: 8887100
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing information using multiple hierarchies, comprising: displaying a branching structure for a first hierarchy and a second hierarchy in a user interface by expanding the branching structure for the first hierarchy and the branching structure for the second hierarchy, wherein the branching structures for the first hierarchy and the second hierarchy comprise separate bread crumb trails that each represent a path to a given location through other locations in the corresponding hierarchy; receiving, from a user, a specifier for a first location in the first hierarchy and a specifier for a second location in the second hierarchy; retrieving information, if such information exists, from an intersection between the first location in the first hierarchy and the second location in the second hierarchy; using browsing histories for users that have browsed the hierarchy to determine a set of the users that have each browsed to at least one of the first location and the second location, wherein the set of the users comprises at least one of the users that is different from the user; determining a ranking for the information by using rankings from the set of the users, wherein determining the ranking comprises using a given ranking in the rankings, wherein the given ranking corresponds to a given user in the set of the users that has browsed to a browsed location, and wherein the given ranking is determined based on at least one of an indication whether or not the given user saved the browsed location and an indication whether or not the browsed location was an endpoint of a browsing session for the given user; and presenting the retrieved information to the user in a rank order based on the ranking.