Patent Document ID: 9659069
Application ID: 14212853

Base Claim:
1. A method for highlighting items corresponding to search results, comprising: displaying a plurality of items in a user interface display; while maintaining display of the plurality of items: receiving a first user input representing at least a portion of a search term; in response to receiving the first user input, highlighting at least a subset of the plurality of items, the subset of the plurality of items including: a first item that represents at least a one item having metadata that at least partially matches the first user input; a second item that represents at least one item having metadata that at least partially matches the first user input; and a third item that represents at least one item having metadata that represents at least one item having metadata that at least partially matches the first user input; while the first item, the second item and the third item are highlighted, receiving a second user input representing an additional portion of the search term; and in response to receiving the second user input, incrementally changing the displaying and highlighting of the plurality of items in response to the second user input, including: maintaining the highlighting of the first item, wherein the first item represents at least one item having metadata that at least partially matches the first user input and the second user input representing the additional portion of the search term; maintaining the highlighting of the second item, wherein the second item represents at least one item having metadata that at least partially matches the first user input and the second user input representing the additional portion of the search term; and ceasing to highlight the third item, wherein the third item does not represent any items having metadata that at least partially matches the first user input and the second input representing the additional portion of the search term.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein each highlighted item represents a container.