MOBILE SEARCH SERVICE INSTANT ACTIVATION

• US 20110202874A1
• Filed: 03/29/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• 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, Doughty, Dennis, Soroca, Adam
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,659 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• 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 computer-implemented method of activating a mobile search service on a mobile communication facility, the method comprising 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.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes a phone mode.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the search box is a network search box.

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

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

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the search vertical is a general search.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein activation of the search box is substantially instantaneous.

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

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

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

12. The method 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 method 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 method 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 method 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 method 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 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.

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 computer-implemented method of activating a mobile search service on a mobile communication facility, the method comprising 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.