Method and apparatus for concept-based visual presentation of search results

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PATENT NO 7809717
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11526409

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A method and apparatus is provided for visually coding or sorting search results based on the similarity of the search results to one or more concepts. A search query containing search terms is used to conduct a web search and obtain search results comprising a number of document surrogates describing the located web pages. Concepts are obtained using the search terms and the similarities between the obtained concepts and the search results are evaluated. The search results are then displayed in a manner that indicates the relative similarity of search results to one or more of the determined concepts, such as by sorting the search results based on the level of similarity of the search results to one or more concepts or by providing an accordance indicator with each displayed search result, the accordance indicators indicating the similarity of the corresponding search result with one or more of the concepts.

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BLACKBIRD TECH LLCONE BOSTON PLACE SUITE 2600 BOSTON MA 02108

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Hoeber, Orland Regina, CA 3 139
Yang, Xue-Dong Regina, CA 4 246
Yao, Yiyu Regina, CA 2 184

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