Patent ID: 7644373

Claim:
A method for presenting an image search result having clusters of images, the method comprising: receiving a image search query; identifying an image search result of images that are relevant the image search query, each image having an relevance score indicating relevance of the image to the image query search, the images being organized into clusters; displaying in a cluster panel a cluster indication of each cluster, the cluster indication including thumbnails of multiple images from the cluster, the cluster indications being ordered based on relevance of the images in the cluster to the image search query; when in mix view, displaying in a view panel thumbnails of the images of the clusters in which the images of all the clusters are ordered into a combined ordering such that the most relevant image taken from each cluster are listed first in the combined ordering followed by a listing of the second most relevant image taken from each cluster in the combined ordering, wherein the other images of all the clusters are further listed in the combined ordering in an order based on relevance of each image within its the cluster; and when in list view, when a user selects a cluster indication using a first selection, displaying in the view panel thumbnails of images of the cluster corresponding to the selected cluster indication; when a user selects a cluster indication using a second selection, displaying adjacent to the selected cluster indication a mini-thumbnail of images of the cluster corresponding to the selected cluster indication; and when a user selects a thumbnail of an image, displaying a detail view of that image in the view panel.