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Searching and accessing application functionality

  • US 9,626,443 B2
  • Filed: 10/23/2014
  • Issued: 04/18/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2014
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • transmitting, by a computing device of a user device, a search query including one or more query terms to a search system;

    receiving, at the computing device, search results in response to the search query, the search results including one or more grouped sets of search results, each grouped set of search results corresponding to a respective application and including;

    a header including a default access mechanism that includes a reference to the respective application and indicates one or more operations to access a default state of the application; and

    two or more individual search results, each individual search result corresponding to a state of the respective application that is relevant to the search query and including one or more access mechanisms respectively defining one or more operations to access the corresponding state; and

    displaying, on a display in communication with the computing device, the search results in a graphical user interface, including for each grouped set of search results, displaying;

    a header link corresponding to the header that, when selected, causes the computing device to access the default state of the application using the default access mechanism,an expansion element associated with the header, the expansion element having an expanded state and a collapsed state,an installation state of the respective application in relation to the header link, the installation state indicating whether a native application edition of the respective application is installed on the user device, andone or more user selectable links grouped with the header link, each user selectable link corresponding to a respective one of the two or more individual search results, wherein when the user selectable link is selected, the user selectable link causes the computing device to access the state of the respective application corresponding to the user selectable link using one of the one or more access mechanisms in the individual search result, wherein;

    when the expansion element is in the expanded state, a first amount of user selectable links grouped with the header link are displayed in the graphical user interface; and

    when the expansion element is in the collapsed state, a second amount of user selectable links grouped with the header link are displayed in the graphical user interface, the second amount being less than the first amount.

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