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Abstract

Techniques are disclosed that improve the browsing and purchasing experience for online customers. Partial search and navigation requests are asynchronously executed while the user is still typing. No conventional gestures (e.g., mouse clicks, enter key presses, select key presses, pad presses, button presses, hyperlink selection, or other such post-search_term entry_commit actions) are required to execute search request. Result sets narrowed by navigational elements (e.g., product attribute hyperlinks, such as color, size, gender, etc) can be previewed without committing (clicking or entering) to that navigational pathway. Navigational elements can be tied to and synchronized with the result set.

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