Overview of search results

The search results area is located below the query area.

In the search results area you can view the following:

Categories of results that are displayed under Focused information on
One or more pages of Answers & Citations results
Results having to do with companies and technologies
Panel of filters and concepts (facets)

The contents of the results area looks different depending on the current view of your search results.

Search results

Goldfire displays answers to expressed or implied questions that are related to your query. These answers are grouped into categories of results (such as Definitions, Concepts, Advantages, etc.), and the results categories are in turn grouped into general category types (such as General Facts, Parts and Functions, Parameters, Consumer Sentiment, etc.)

General category types

Click the links under Focused information on to display the contents of any one of the following general category types:

General Facts comprises the following categories of results: Definitions, More Specific, Concepts, Advantages, Disadvantages, Applications, Methods, Conditions, Locations, and Materials.
Parts and Functions comprises the following categories of results: Made Up Of, Part Of, Objects Acted Upon, Functions (Action + Object), Acting Subjects, and Interactions.
Parameters comprises the following categories of results: Speed, Distance, Height, Depth, Length, Mass, Age, Size, Thickness, Width, Temperature, Time, Frequency, Color, Duration, Shape, Number, Amount, Values of a Parameter, Quantity, and Parameters.
Causes and Effects comprises the following categories of results: Causes, Effects, and Preventions.
People & Roles comprises the following categories of results: Persons, Persons (Object of Sentence), and Persons (Subject of Sentence).
The People & Roles category is hidden by default. To display it, go to your user profile and select the Show People & Roles Category check box.
Consumer SentimentIf your Goldfire administrator has granted you user rights, you can create and add your own customized categories to this list. Custom categories that you create are grouped in a general category type named Corporate Categories. You might also see corporate categories that other users have created if your Goldfire administrator has shared them with you. For further details, click Consumer Sentiment.

Sunburst Viewer

Goldfire provides users with the opportunity to work with an enhanced, visual representation of the category types and specific categories associated with your search results. This feature enables you to see the composition of returned search results based on the category types as well as the related categories and answers.

If the viewer is minimized and not visible, click to expand the viewer.
Click on a link to a general category type to display a visual representation of the specific categories and answers within a category type.

Sorting category boxes

You can sort answers in each of the category boxes by export content, alphabetically, and by frequency. Click next to any of the answer boxes to select how you want to sort answers from a particular category

Exporting category boxes

You can export answers from each of the category boxes to a file:

Click at the top of any of the category boxes
Click Export Content
In the Export Results dialog box, select a file type
Click Export

Query splitting for categories

When you conduct a multi-term query, Goldfire automatically detects and then splits your query into functional parts. These meaningful parts are displayed as options in drop-down list under Focused Information on, enabling you to browse facts in the documents of your search results that are focused on the concept you selected.

For example, If you search for renewable energy consumption, then Goldfire recognizes and splits your query into the following distinct parts: renewable energy consumption, renewable energy, and consumption. You can click on any of the three options in the drop-down list to display the categories and facts for it, and then you can browse the facts in the documents in your search results.

Query splitting for categories is currently only available for queries conducted in English.

Companies and Technologies

The general category types include a Companies link. Use the Companies link to display search results from patent collections that include the following:

A list of companies (patent assignees) that develop a technology that is related to your query.
A list of companies (patent assignees) that develop a technology that is related to your query, as well as the corresponding number of patents that were applied for by each company. For up to five selected companies, you can compare the number of patents that were applied for each year for a particular technology, by generating a patent activity bar graph for these companies.
A table of patenting activity by inventors who are working with the technology that is related to your query.
A table of bibliographic data for the patents that were returned by your query, including Publication Number, Publication Date, Title, and Assignee.

Filters panel

The filters panel at the left of the search results area lists a variety of filters that you can use to filter the display of your search results. The filters are grouped in several categories. To apply one or more filters to your search results, select the check boxes next to the filters that you want to apply.

Translating search results

If the Language Pack is installed, you can have your search results translated from one or more languages into the language that you specify. You specify your translation options using the Translation link at the top of the results area.

In the results area, all results in the languages that you chose for translation are translated into the language that you selected.

For details about translating search results, see Working with answers and citations.

Saving search results

Save search results and a More results citation to My Data, or export just search results to a file.

To select the main snippets to either save to My Data or to export, click the check box to the left of the item(s) in the query results pane, and then click the Save drop-down arrow in the top-right of the query results pane.

For details on saving results to My Data or exporting them, see Saving or exporting your search results.

Search results exceptions

It is possible that when you conduct a query, you might not see any search results. For detailed information about why your query did not result in any search results, see search results exceptions.