Patent Document ID: 9436743
Application ID: 14229398

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: identifying, within results of a search, a document that is a member of a document family that includes at least one other document; determining that a user has made a selection to include, within the results of the search, the document family; creating a data map that includes a representation of the document identified within the results of the search at least in part by identifying a unique identifier associated with the document that corresponds to an offset within the data map and representing the document by toggling a bit at the corresponding offset on the data map; based on the determination that the user made the selection, expanding the data map by including, within the data map, a representation of each of the at least one other document in the document family; using the expanded data map to include the document family within the results of the search.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein expanding the data map comprises: identifying each of the at least one other document within the document family; identifying, for each of the at least one other document within the document family, a unique identifier that corresponds to an offset within the data map; toggling a bit at the corresponding offset for each of the at least one other document within the document family.