Patent ID: 7937403

Claim:
A method, comprising: (a) at a search term aggregator server, receiving from a particular user of a client device a query for viewing a plurality of related search terms in a particular category that are used by a plurality of search application users, via one or more search server, who also each used a selected anchor term in the particular category; (b) from a plurality of user search databases for storing user search information pertaining to each of a plurality of searches by a user for web documents that are relevant to a corresponding search term, obtaining user search information for each search by each user who also conducted at least one search for documents that are relevant to the selected anchor search term, wherein the user search information for each search includes a user identifier, a time of search, a corresponding search term, and a search term category; (c) filtering the obtained user search information to include only user search information pertaining to searches for web documents that are relevant to the corresponding search terms in the selected category; and (d) from the filtered user search information, sending to the client device a user interface for selectively displaying the corresponding search terms and the selected anchor search term for each user in a time sequence calendar format that spatially displays when the corresponding search terms and the selected anchor search term were used relative to each other for their corresponding searches in a particular time period and the frequency of use of the corresponding search terms.