Patent ID: 8676854

Claim:
A computer implemented method of presenting search result data, comprising: given search results generated in response to a request by a user, the search results being formed of one or more items, corresponding each item to a respective person; providing a screen view illustrating organizational affiliations of the respective people corresponding to the items of the search results, wherein the screen view shows representations of different people grouped by their organizational affiliations, and per organizational affiliation the screen view shows organization hierarchy of the respective people, there being at least one organization that is non-specific to the user but includes the people corresponding to the items of the search results, such that the hierarchy is an external organizational structure with respect to the user, and such that the screen view showing the hierarchy indicates respective organizational affiliations of the people corresponding to the items of the search results; indicating in the screen view extent of individual people connectedness between the user and the respective people corresponding to the items of the search results; and displaying indications of the items of the search results in the screen view in a manner illustrating the items in context of the shown hierarchy.