Patent Document ID: 7707245
Application ID: 12368258

Base Claim:
1. A process executing on a hardware device comprising a metasearch engine for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request the metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries comprising at least two keyword phrases to a plurality of server devices, each search query of the plurality of search queries comprising a keyword phrase of the at least two keyword phrases, each of the at least two keyword phrases comprising at least one keyword, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, at the metasearch engine, the request from the client device for the metasearch engine to send the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases to the plurality of server devices; (b) sending, by the metasearch engine, the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases to the plurality of server devices; (c) receiving, at the metasearch engine, search results from the plurality of server devices in response to the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases sent to the plurality of server devices; (d) incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the received search results into at least two different order books corresponding to the at least two keyword phrases; (e) incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the at least two different order books of received search results into a response for communicating to the client device; (f) communicating, by the metasearch engine, the response from the metasearch engine to the client device.

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Claim 6:
6. The process executing on the hardware device of claim 1 , wherein each of the at least two different order books comprises bid data and offer data, step (d) further comprises: sorting, by the metasearch engine, the bid data within the each of the at least two different order books; sorting, by the metasearch engine, the offer data within the each of the at least two different order books.