Patent Document ID: 9483535
Application ID: 14229119

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for expanding search results, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: determining that a user is attempting to perform a document search; presenting an option to the user to include, within results of the search, in addition to a found document that matches search criteria entered by the user, other documents within a document family associated with the found document, wherein the other documents within the document family do not match the search criteria; determining that the user has selected to include the other documents within the document family associated with the found document; in response to determining that the user has selected to include the other documents within the document family, including the other documents within the document family in the search results.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein: presenting the option to the user comprises prior to the user performing the search, displaying a prompt to the user allowing the user to choose to include, within the search results, all documents that do not match the search criteria within each document family associated with each search result; determining that the user has selected to include the other documents within the document family comprises determining that the user has selected to include all of the documents that do not match the search criteria within each document family associated with each search result; including the other documents within the document family in the search results comprises including, within the search results, all of the documents that do not match the search criteria within each document family associated with each search result.