Patent Document ID: 8527529
Application ID: 12627346

Base Claim:
1. A method for displaying search results for a search query comprising a plurality of search terms, said method comprising: receiving said search query; obtaining at least one document satisfying said search query; determining a relative position of at least two of said search terms in said at least one document; and presenting at least a portion of said at least one document with a visual indication of said relative position of said at least two search terms in said at least one document, wherein said visual indication indicates a count of one or more intervening elements between said at least two search terms and wherein one or more steps of said method are performed by one or more hardware devices, wherein said relative position is indicated using a predefined character to indicate said one or more intervening elements between said at least two search terms and wherein said one or more intervening elements indicated by each predefined character comprises a given one of a character, word, line, paragraph and page.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of presenting a relevance ranking that is based on said relative position of said at least two search terms.