US 7,447,688 B2
System for conducting searches on the world wide web enabling the search requester to modify the domain context of a search responsive to an excessive number of hits on combinations of keywords
Timothy Alan Dietz, Austin, Tex. (US); Walid M. Kobrosly, Round Rock, Tex. (US); Nadeem Malik, Austin, Tex. (US); and Avijit Saha, Somers, N.Y. (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Oct. 09, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/682,397.
Prior Publication US 2005/0080767 A1, Apr. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 707—5  [707/3; 707/4] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received Web documents accessible from database sources on the Web, a method for reducing an excessive number of hits in a search result received at one of the receiving display stations comprising:
displaying at said receiving display stations, received Web documents received from said sources;
conducting keyword searches on the Web;
displaying at said receiving display stations the number of Web documents hit by said keyword searches;
responsive to a number of Web document hits predetermined to be excessive, enabling a user to display a hierarchical level of the domains of the Web documents hit by said searches with a count of the number of hits for each domain;
enabling the user to interactively eliminate selected domains to thereby reduce the excess number of hits in said search;
storing, in association with said receiving display station, a search context including said eliminated selected domains wherein said selected domains may be eliminated from subsequent searches.