Search Result Preview Expansion via Dynamic Perimeter Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current search systems require users to navigate away from search results pages to access additional information about search results, which is time-consuming and inefficient, especially on devices with limited display areas.
Innovation Solution
Implementing methods to present extended result content within the search results page through user interactions like swipes or taps, allowing users to access relevant information such as images, maps, or reviews without leaving the search results page, by expanding the search result location and animating the content replacement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users navigate away from search results page to access additional information, then complete information access is achieved, but time consumption increases and usability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by expanding the search result location and loading extended result content (images, maps, reviews) in advance within the search results page. When users interact with a search result, the extended content is already prepared and immediately displayed, eliminating the need to navigate away and wait for new pages to load.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nesting by placing extended result content (such as images, maps, and reviews) within the search result location itself. The search result location acts as a container that can hold both the basic search result and additional extended content, allowing users to access nested information without leaving the current page context.
2Ease of operation
If extended result content is presented within search result location, then usability improves and time is reduced, but display area constraints are exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The search result location is implemented as a dynamic element that can change its perimeter size. When extended result content needs to be displayed, the system expands the search result location from an initial perimeter to an expanded perimeter, accommodating additional content while maintaining a compact form when extended content is not needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the perimeter parameter of the search result location dynamically. The perimeter transitions from an initial state to an expanded state based on the need to display extended result content, allowing the display area to adapt to content requirements rather than being fixed.
3Loss of information
If search result location is expanded to show extended content, then information completeness improves, but other search results are displaced
Solution Approach 1:
The extended result content is segmented into different categories (images, maps, reviews) and organized within the expanded search result location. This segmentation allows the content to be structured in a way that maximizes information density while maintaining organization, reducing the overall space required compared to displaying all content uniformly.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting information. In one aspect, a method includes receiving search result data representing a search result and extended result content for the search result, where at least a portion of the received extended result content including off-page content that was obtained from a resource that is not referenced by the search result. The search result is presented and a user interaction with a search result is determined to have occurred. In response to determining that the user interaction occurred, a portion of extended result content for the search result is presented. The extended result content can be presented while maintaining presentation of at least a portion of the search result. A size of the search result location in which the extended result content is presented can be expanded to present a larger portion of the extended result content in the expanded search result location.