Patent ID: 7917464

Claim:
A method for displaying information about documents in a corpus of documents, said method comprising: accepting search criteria from a user, said search criteria including a free text entry query and a domain identifier identifying a domain; in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, identifying a set of documents among the corpus of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents: (1) contains anywhere within the document location-related information referring to a location within the domain; and (2) contains anywhere within the document information responsive to the free text entry query, wherein said identified documents are identified by a plurality of document identifiers; displaying a multi-dimensional representation of said domain on a display device; and displaying within the representation of the domain displayed on the display device a plurality of visual indicators as representations of the documents identified by said plurality of document identifiers, wherein each visual indicator of the plurality of visual indicators represents a corresponding different subset of documents among the identified documents and wherein each visual indicator is positioned within the representation of the domain at a coordinate corresponding to the location-related information for the corresponding subset of documents.