Patent Document ID: 7827503
Application ID: 11190685

Base Claim:
1. A method for searching, comprising: detecting a drag and drop operation of a selection indicator with a pointing device in a display area, wherein the selection indicator is a predefined indicator that is selectively dropped at a user-selected drop location within the display area and is set to be positioned at the user-selected drop location, the display area having content in a first language; upon detecting a drop of the selection indicator onto the drop location, determining a symbol previously within the display area at the drop location of the selection indicator, the symbol being different from the selection indicator, and wherein the selection indicator is persistently pinned to the determined symbol during scrolling of the display area having the symbol; initiating a search for a plurality of predefined types of content based on the determined symbol that the drop of the selection indicator is performed on; and associating each of the plurality of the predefined types of content with at least one of a plurality of selection elements to be displayed in one of a plurality of result windows, the result windows having content predominantly in a second language that is different from the first language.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: detecting a drag and drop operation on a second selection indicator with the pointing device in the display area, wherein the second selection indicator comprises a second one of a plurality of separate selection indicators; determining a second symbol in the display area at a location of the second selection indicator; and initiating a second search of content based on the determined second symbol.