Map application with improved search tools

US10161761B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Bradford A. Moore · San Francisco, US
• Joshua C. Weinberg · San Jose, US
• Jorge Fino · San Jose, US
• Mark B. Larus · San Francisco, US
• Sarah G. Barbour · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2016
• Grant date: Dec 25, 2018
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/0482
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a mapping application that provides a variety of UI elements for allowing a user to specify a location (e.g., for viewing or serving as route destinations). In some embodiments, these location-input UI elements appear in succession on a sequence of pages, according to a hierarchy that has the UI elements that require less user interaction appear on earlier pages in the sequence than the UI elements that require more user interaction. In some embodiments, the location-input UI elements that successively appear in the mapping application include (1) selectable predicted-destination notifications, (2) a list of selectable predicted destinations, (3) a selectable voice-based search affordance, and (4) a keyboard. In some of these embodiments, these UI elements appear successively on the following sequence of pages: (1) a default page for presenting the predicted-destination notifications, (2) a destination page for presenting the list of predicted destinations, (3) a search page for receiving voice-based search requests, and (4) a keyboard page for receiving character input.