System and Method for Displaying Results of Search

Abstract

The present invention relates to the system and the method for graphically displaying the results of search engine on a terminal of client, so that client can see a search process at first glance and move between a higher category and a lower category easily and learn the results of search engine quickly.

1 . A system for displaying the results of a search, comprising at least one terminal with a display, an open network that interconnects with said terminal, a plurality of Web sites and Web pages each associated with a unique uniform resource locator used on said open network, a server for searching said open network for Web sites or Web pages for at least one keyword entered through said terminal and displaying the search results on said display, said server includes:
 a search module for searching said Web sites or Web pages for said keyword;   a searched result database for storing the search results containing Web sites or Web pages in which said keyword is found by said search module;   a filtering module for filtering searched results stored in said searched result database so that Web sites and Web pages in said searched result database are not duplicated; and   a display module for graphically presenting said search results after being filtered by said filtering module stored in said searched result database on said display of said terminal, said search results having the same hierarchial search order being shown graphically.   
     
     
         2 . The system as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said display module is adapted to present said keyword on said display. 
     
     
         3 . The system as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said display module order of records shown on said display. 
     
     
         4 . The system as set forth in any one of  claim 1  to  claim 5 , wherein said display presents a list of Web sites associated with the records shown on said display. 
     
     
         5 . A method for displaying the results of a search on at least one terminal with a display using said terminal, a plurality of Web sites, a server for searching said Web sites or Web pages thereof for at least one keyword entered through said terminal and displaying the searched results on said terminal, and an open network for interconnecting said terminal, Web sited and server, said method comprising the steps of:
 a) searching said Web sites or Web pages for said keyword;   b) storing the results searched at said step a) in said server;   c graphically displaying said searched results stored at said steps b) on a display of said terminal in hierarchal order on said display of said terminal, said display module arranges said search results in concentrically arranged graphics depicting lower to higher hierarchal order.   
     
     
         6 . The method as set forth in  claim 5 , wherein said step c) further includes the step of displaying the order or category along with the keyword on said display. 
     
     
         7 . The method as set forth in claim  13 , wherein said step c) further includes the step of, if any one Web site is selected from said Web site list, displaying information regarding the selected Web site in a different portion of said sub-window or another sub-window. 
     
     
         8 . The method as set forth in claim  13 , wherein said step c) includes the step of displaying an nth-order category on an edge of said graphic and then hierarchically displaying selected items in higher-order categories within said polygon or circle. 
     
     
         9 . A method for presenting on a display the search results for the uniform resource locator of a webpage or website that contains a keyword from a search engine connected to the Internet network, the method comprising:
 a. imputing said keyword into said search engine connected to web said Internet network, a network of web sites and web pages, each said web site and web page containing a keyword and associated with a uniform resource locator;   b. conducting a keyword search using said search engine for web sites and web pages on said Internet network in which said keyword is located, each said web site or web page in which said keyword is located has a searching hierarchical order;   c. filtering said search results so that uniform resource located associated with said web sites and web pages are not duplicated; and,   d. presenting said filtered search results in a graphic that depict there hierarchial order with the categories in said search order associated with said hierarchial order being presented on said display, when said filtered search results contains categories from different hierarchical orders, a graphic assigned to each hierarchical order and said categories having the same hierarchical order are presented around on lower graphic, the categories in said graphic having the lower hierarchical order being presented with its uniform resource locator.