Patent ID: 8583637
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a query term; generating, with a processor, a first set of results based on the query term using a database storing a plurality of documents, and an index of the plurality of documents, each document having structural elements corresponding to images of pages or images of portions of pages within each document; retrieving, with the processor, a plurality of structural elements associated with one or more paginated documents in the first set of results; generating, with the processor, a second set of results based on a search of metadata that describes the plurality of structural elements, the search based on a predefined relationship between the plurality of structural elements in the one or more paginated documents and the query term; displaying the second set of results along with an image of each structural element in the set of results illustrating an instance of the query term as it appears in each structural element; and displaying a scaled image corresponding to a portion of a structural element of a search result in the second set of results, wherein the scaled image is scaled by a scaling parameter that is based at least in part on a font size of the query term in the portion of a structural element and a minimal font size in the scaled image, wherein the query term is visually distinguished in the scaled image.