Method for navigating within a search result obtained by means of a search engine

摘要

A method for navigating within a search result obtained with a search engine installed on an electronic device, wherein a list of results is obtained from a data server, the navigation method including: identifying, in each result in the list of results, first components of the result considered, and second components of the result considered; organizing the first components into a first sub-list of results and the second components into a second sub-list of results; restoring the first sub-list of results into a first display area of the screen, and the second sub-list of results into a second display area of the screen; synchronizing the selection of a result in the first sub-list of results with the selection of a corresponding result in the second sub-list of results; and using a multi-touch interface in order to select a search result spread over a plurality of lists showing a different view of the same information.

主权项

1. A method for navigating within a search result obtained from a search engine installed on an electronic device, wherein a list of search results is obtained from a data server, the navigating method comprising:
identifying, for each result in the list of search results, first components of the result and second components of the result; organizing the first components of each result into a first sub-list of results and the second components of each result into a second sub-list of results; restoring the first sub-list of results into a first display area of a display screen associated with the electronic device and the second sub-list of results into a second display area of the display screen, in which each group in the first and second sub-list of results comprises a limited number of first group components and second croup components that correspond to each other and are displayed in the first and second display areas, respectively; synchronizing a selection of a result in the first sub-list of results with a selection of a corresponding result in the second sub-list of results, wherein the synchronizing of the selection of the result comprises, when the result is selected in one of the first sub-list of results and the second sub-list of results, automatically selecting the corresponding result in the other sub-list of results; and synchronizing the restoration of the groups of results, in which each group of one of the two sub-lists restored into the display area associated with it exhibits a corresponding group in the group of the other of the two sub-lists restored into the display area associated with it.