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Facilitating interaction with system level search user interface

  • US 10,346,479 B2
  • Filed: 09/09/2011
  • Issued: 07/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, at a computing device when a currently active application is running in a foreground of the computing device, a character input, the currently active application supporting user interaction via non-character input keys but supporting no character inputs;

    determining that the currently active application supports no character inputs; and

    displaying, in response to determining the currently active application supports no character input, a system level search user interface treats the character input received as an universal search user interface request, wherein the system level search user interface having both a data entry portion displaying the character as a search term, and a search identification portion in which one or more identifiers of scopes are displayed and, if no search results are generated based on the search term then changing which of the one or more identifiers of scopes is focused on in response to user selection of one or more keyboard arrow keys without user selection of the search identification.

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