Patent ID: 6985896

Claim:
A method comprising: performing a search based on a search expression to yield a plurality of search results; providing a browsing sequence for the plurality of search results; providing a tree which non-categorically relates the plurality of search results, the tree being non-unary and having a height of at least two; enabling a user to make one or more decisions of how to prune the browsing sequence based on which of the search results in the browsing sequence are deemed irrelevant or undesirable to the user; receiving a user selection to prune the browsing sequence based on a user-selected one of the search results; and based on the user selection which is a decision of the user, pruning the browsing sequence of at least one other potentially irrelevant or undesirable search result by removing all search results from the browsing sequence which are tree-descendants of the user-selected one of the search results that is deemed irrelevant or undesirable to the user.