Mobile search service instant activation

• US 8,819,659 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2011
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blue Hills Series 95 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Millennial Media Incorporated (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramer, Jorey, Soroca, Adam, Doughty, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Ziaul A
• Application Number:
  US13/074,103
• Publication Number:
  US 20110202874A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2428 Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms G06F16/2423 takes precedence

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention a computer-implemented method and system of activating a mobile search service on a mobile communication facility includes providing a user interface associated with a display of the mobile communication facility that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating the mobile communication facility by a user thereof, wherein activation of the search box does not require any button selection beyond that associated with activating the mobile communication facility.

Claims

1. A mobile communication facility having a computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors of the mobile communication facility, causes the one or more processors to activate a mobile search service on the mobile communication facility by performing the step of:

providing a user interface associated with a display of the mobile communication facility that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating the mobile communication facility by a user thereof, wherein activation of the search box does not require any button selection beyond that associated with activating the mobile communication facility, wherein the mobile communication facility is a cellular phone.

2. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes a phone mode.

3. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the search box is a network search box.

4. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the search box is a wireless carrier'"'"'s walled garden content search box.

5. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the search box is related to a search vertical.

6. The mobile communication facility of claim 5, wherein the search vertical is a general search.

7. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein activation of the search box is substantially instantaneous.

8. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein activation of the mobile communication facility comprises turning it on.

9. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication facility is a folding phone, wherein the activation of the folding phone is an opening thereof.

10. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the activation of the mobile communication facility is a screensaver trigger.

11. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the activation of the mobile communication facility is an action that turns off a screensaver.

12. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the step of concurrently activating the mobile communication facility and search box comprises activating them substantially at the same time.

13. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the step of concurrently activating the mobile communication facility and the search box comprises activating them in close temporal proximity.

14. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the step of concurrently activating the mobile communication facility and the search box comprises activating them within 5 seconds of one another.

15. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the presentation of the search box is in conjunction with another user interface feature of the mobile communication facility.

16. The mobile communication facility of claim 1, wherein the activation of the mobile communication facility is tapping the user interface thereof or pressing a button of the mobile communication facility.

17. A system for activating a mobile search service on a mobile communication facility, the system comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU), and at least one memory; and

a user interface associated with a display of the mobile communication facility that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating the mobile communication facility by a user thereof, wherein activation of the search box does not require any button selection beyond that associated with activating the mobile communication facility, wherein the mobile communication facility is a cellular phone.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the activation of the mobile communication facility is tapping the user interface thereof or pressing a button of the mobile communication facility.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the activation of the mobile communication facility comprises turning it on.

20. A mobile communication facility having a computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors of the mobile communication facility, causes the one or more processors to activate a mobile search service on the mobile communication facility by performing the step of:

providing a user interface associated with a display of the mobile communication facility that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating the mobile communication facility by a user thereof, wherein the activation of the mobile communication facility comprises turning on the mobile communication facility by the user, wherein the mobile communication facility is a cellular phone.