System level search user interface

US9037565B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Priya Vaidyanathan · Clyde Hill, US
• Stephanie M. Monk · Redmond, US
• Brandon H. Paddock · Seattle, US
• Richard Jacob White · Seattle, US
• Edward Boyle Averett · Kirkland, US
• Rolf A. Ebeling · Kirkland, US
• Michael J. Gilmore · Bothell, US
• Manav Mishra · Kirkland, US
• Jesse Clay Satterfield · Seattle, US
• Marc Wautier · Seattle, US
• Dona Sarkar · Kirkland, US
• Brendan D. Elliott · Redmond, US
• Kwong K. Leung · Redmond, US
• Arun Gurunathan · Bellevue, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 13, 2013
• Grant date: May 19, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/9538
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and an application identification portion is displayed. User data input as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more applications of multiple applications on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the application identification portion. The search term is provided to one application of the multiple applications for that one application to generate and display search results based on the search term while the display of at least the data entry portion of the system level search user interface is maintained.