Patent ID: 7447678
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a search query; performing a search, in response to the search query, on a database including a plurality of document categories to obtain a list of search results corresponding to each of the document categories; ranking the document categories relative to one another based on a content of documents in each of the lists of search results; and generating a document in which the list of search results corresponding to each of at least two of the document categories are presented in sections by category based on the ranking of the at least of the document categories, where a first section of the generated document corresponding to a higher ranking one of the at least two of the document categories is more prominently presented within the generated document than a second section of the generated document corresponding to a lower ranking one of the at least two of the document categories, and the first section presents a textual snippet associated with respective ones of the listed search results corresponding to the higher ranking document category and the second section does not present a textual snippet associated with each of the listed search results corresponding to the lower ranking document category.