Patent ID: 7117199

Claim:
An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from a user including a free text entry query and a domain identifier identifying the domain; in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, searching among a corpus of documents and identifying every document within that corpus of documents that: (1) contains anywhere within the document location-related information that locates at a specific location within the domain identified by the domain identifier; and (2) contains anywhere within the document text that is in response to the free text entry query, wherein said identified documents are identified by a plurality of document identifiers; displaying a representation of said domain on the display device, wherein the domain is a geographical region and said representation is multi-dimensional map of the geographical region; and displaying on the display device a plurality of icons as representations of the documents identified by said plurality of document identifiers, wherein for each document identifier of said plurality of document identifiers, a corresponding different icon from among said plurality of icons is displayed within said representation of the domain that is being displayed on the display device, the corresponding icon for each document identifier of said plurality of document identifiers being positioned within the representation of the domain at a coordinate within the domain at a coordinate within the domain that corresponds to the location-related information for the corresponding document.