TRANSITION FROM FIRST SEARCH RESULTS ENVIRONMENT TO SECOND SEARCH RESULTS ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing search results. In one aspect, a transition from a first search result environment to a second, different search result environment is done in a manner that preserves the user experience of focusing on a selected search result. The transition can be facilitated by an intermediate search result environment that appears during the transition from the first search result environment to the second search result environment. The intermediate search result environment displays search result data of a search result that was selected in the first search result environment. The search result data that is displayed is, for example, data that was provided for display in the first search result environment. For example, in the case of image search results, the search result data that is displayed is a thumbnail image of the image search result.

主权项

1. A user device, comprising a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that when executed by processor cause the user device to perform operations comprising:
receiving a selection of a search result in a set of search results displayed in a first search result environment displayed in a display environment, wherein:
at least two different types of search results are displayed in the first search results environment, the two types including search results of a first type and search results of a second type; andeach search result of the second type references corresponding content of a second type that is determined to be responsive to a search query for which the set of search results was provided, and includes a representation of the content; and in response to a selection of one of the search results of the second type as a selected search result:
requesting, from a search engine, search results of the second type responsive to the search query;generating, in the display environment, an intermediate search result environment;displaying, in the intermediate search result environment, the representation of the content included in the selected search result;generating in the display environment and in a view hidden by the second search result environment, a second search result environment that is a search results display environment for search results of the second type;displaying in the second search result environment search results of the second type responsive to the query, wherein one of the search results is the selected search result and includes the representation of content; andpositioning the second search result environment in a viewport so that content of the second type corresponding to the selected search result is coincident with the representation of content displayed in the intermediate search result environment.