slawski - 8:44 pm on Jul 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

The patent also notes that hovering over a OneBox result might be a signal to Google that there's value in presenting that particular OneBox within the results.

The patent was filed a couple of years before Google implemented Universal Search, but if they were to use this kind of mouse pointer tracking, it's possible that it could be used for all kinds of vertical results interleavened within web results as well.