Patent ID: 7788261

Claim:
A method of creating and displaying enhanced search results, the method comprising: receiving a search query containing at least one search term provided by a user, the search query received at a server through a network from a remote device; generating a search result set based on the received search query, the search result set comprising a plurality of meta-documents, each meta-document of the search result set corresponding to a computer readable document, each meta-document of the search result set comprising a summary of relevant terms present in the corresponding computer readable document; analyzing the generated search result set comprising: determining, for each meta-document in the search result set, a local frequency of occurrence of the relevant terms in the summary of the meta-document and adding the relevant terms and associated local frequency of occurrence to a local vector associated with the meta-document; and generating a master vector of the frequency of occurrence of relevant terms in all of the meta-documents where each dimension in the master vector represents a term found in the local vectors; and providing the master vector, the local vectors and the search result set to a visualization interface module for displaying the search result set on the remote device, simultaneously with a subset of terms commonly occurring in the search result set and the frequency of occurrence of the commonly occurring terms in the subset, the frequency of occurrence of the commonly occurring terms in the subset determined from the master vector.