Patent Document ID: 9251260
Application ID: 13674935

Base Claim:
1. A method for enabling social network interaction via a graphical user interface comprising search results, the graphical user interface being physically generated on a hardware display device by a computing device, the method comprising the steps of: generating, in the graphical user interface, a presentation of multiple document search results identifying a first set of documents responsive to a user's search; generating, in the graphical user interface, a presentation of an identification of a first individual responsive to the user's search, the first individual being associated with the user via an external social networking service; receiving, via the graphical user interface, user-authored content to be directed to the social networking service; including, as part of the user-authored content, a search context utilizable by recipients of the search context to subsequently perform, after receiving the search context, an equivalent search to the user's search and receive identical document search results to the multiple document search results presented to the user; including, as part of the user-authored content, a further search context comprising at least one of the multiple document search results; submitting the user-authored content to the social networking service to be included in a social networking context of the user; and generating, for at least some of the multiple document search results, individual selection elements by which the user can specify the inclusion of individual ones of the multiple document search results in the user-authored content.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the further search context comprises specified individual ones of the multiple document search results that were specified for inclusion in the user-authored content.