Patent Document ID: 9483535
Application ID: 14229119

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for expanding search results, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: determining that a user is attempting to perform a document search; presenting an option to the user to include, within results of the search, in addition to a found document that matches search criteria entered by the user, other documents within a document family associated with the found document, wherein the other documents within the document family do not match the search criteria; determining that the user has selected to include the other documents within the document family associated with the found document; in response to determining that the user has selected to include the other documents within the document family, including the other documents within the document family in the search results.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein presenting the option to the user comprises, after the user performs the search: displaying a prompt to the user indicating that at least one partial document family was included in the search results; displaying a prompt to the user allowing the user to expand the partial document family by including, within the search results, an entire document family associated with the partial document family.