Patent ID: 8621367

Claim:
A method for joint interaction with web-based search results, comprising: sending data to display, on a first display viewable by a first user, a set of results based on a query; sending data to display, on a second display viewable by a second user, the set of results; receiving, from the first user, a first input based on the set of results, the first input selecting a particular result from the set of results; receiving, from the second user, a second input based on the set of results, the second input selecting the particular result from the set of results; receiving, from the first user, a filter input indicating criteria for filtering the set of results; in response to receiving the filter input, performing the steps of: filtering the set of results based on the filter input to obtain a filtered set of results; wherein the filtered set of results contains all results, from the set of results, that have been selected by both the first user and the second user; automatically sending data to update at least the first display to display the filtered set of results, without displaying results, from the set of results, that have not been selected by both the first user and the second user.