Patent Document ID: 7523103
Application ID: 11265800

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of performing a search, the method comprising: receiving at least one query term; in response to receiving the at least one query term, accessing, from electronic storage, query terms associated with previously performed searches; comparing the at least one query term with the accessed query terms associated with previously performed searches; based on comparison results, identifying previously performed searches that correspond to the at least one query term; conditioned on a number of the identified previously performed searches that correspond to the at least one query term being less than a threshold, performing a search process to identify electronic network-based search results based on the at least one query term without presenting, prior to performing the search process, a list of query terms associated with the previously performed searches included in identified previously performed searches that correspond to the at least one query term; and conditioned on the number of the identified previously performed searches that correspond to the at least one query term being greater than or equal to the threshold, presenting, prior to performing a search process to identify electronic network-based search results based on the at least one query term, a list of query terms associated with the previously performed searches included in the identified previously performed searches that correspond to the at least one query term.

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Claim 16:
16. The method of claim 1 wherein: accessing, from electronic storage, query terms associated with previously performed searches includes accessing, from electronic storage, query terms associated with previously performed hot searches that were previously performed within a threshold period of time prior to receiving the at least one query term; comparing the at least one query term wit the accessed query terms associated wit previously performed searches includes comparing the at least one query term with the accessed query terms associated with previously performed hot searches that were previously performed within the threshold period of time prior to receiving the at least one query term; and identifying previously performed searches that correspond to the at least one query term includes identifying previously performed hot searches that correspond to the at least one query term and that were previously performed within the threshold period of time prior to receiving the at least one query term.