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Dona Sarkar

Manav Mishra

Priya Vaidyanathan

Edward Boyle Averett

Richard Jacob White

Brandon H Paddock

Stephanie M Monk

Wentao Chen

Brian Eric Uphoff

Yin Liu

Derek S Gebhard

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Michael Jay Gilmore

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Marc Wautier

Brendan D Elliott

Kwong K Leung

Arun Gurunathan

Brian E Uphoff

A system level search module receives system level search user interface registration information for an application of the computing device. The registration information includes an indication of how the system level search module can launch the application. The registration information is added to a registration store, and the application is included as one of one or more applications that can be searched using the system level search user interface.

Registration for system level search user interface

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.

System level search user interface

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