| US 7,555,478 B2 | ||
| Search results presented as visually illustrative concepts | ||
| Oliver Bayley, Pacifica, Calif. (US); Liang-yu (Tom) Chi, San Francisco, Calif. (US); Samantha Marie Tripodi, San Francisco, Calif. (US); and Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 05, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/635,451. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0133505 A1, Jun. 05, 2008 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—3 [707/104.1] | 22 Claims |
| 1. A computer-implemented method for providing search results, the method comprising:
receiving a query term;
determining contextual usages of the query term; and
providing as the search results a search result entry for each of the determined contextual usages, the search result entry
comprising at least one image content and at least one textual content.
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