Faceted searching of resources via a web application

US11023548B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael Junginger · Stuttgart, DE
• Stefan Liesche · Hessenhöfe, DE
• Andreas Nauerz · Stuttgart, DE
• Sascha Sambale · Stuttgart, DE
• Thomas Steinheber · Maihingen, DE
• Thomas Stober · Herrenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2021
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/9535
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer implemented method for searching resources via an application in a user interface framework that initiates a first search request via a search engine interface and receives a search result and associated resource types in response to the first search request. The method further maps the associated resource types to at least one user interface control class of a plurality of user interface control classes resulting in at least one selected class group and dynamically maps the at least one selected class group to a corresponding instance of user interface controls. The method further renders the search result and the corresponding instance into a faceted user interface, receives an input via the corresponding instance rendered into the faceted user interface, filters the search result based on the input to generate a filtered search result, and renders the filtered search result into the faceted search interface.