Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Gary Voronel

Donald Allen Barnett

Timothy Wantland

Ran Mokady

Amid Moradganjeh

Bongshin Lee

Bo Thiesson

Julian James Odell

Tim Paek

Daron Spektor

Lawrence Brian Ripsher

Oliver Scholz

Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault

Olilver Scholz

Various embodiments pertain to techniques for proactively delivering navigation options to a user via a mobile device. In various embodiments, one or more navigation options can be determined for the user and delivered to the user's mobile device at a relevant time. Navigation options can be selected based on the user's current location, the user's future plans, the time, and other locally relevant information, such as friends nearby or a nearby favorite location of the user. The navigation options can be delivered to the user's mobile device at a time that the navigation options are relevant.

Proactive delivery of navigation options

Aspects of the present invention customize services, including search results, that are customized based on the user's familiarity with a geographic area. The search results may be customized by including different information in a search result, emphasizing different information in a search result, adjusting a relevance rank of different search results, and such. The search results may be customized based on the understanding that a user's familiarity with a particular area may influence the type of information that can be useful to the user. Different levels of familiarity may cause different types and levels of search result customization to be performed.

Using geographic familiarity to generate navigation directions

In one embodiment, a clamshell-slate hybrid may act as either a clamshell or slate computing device. The clamshell-slate hybridmay selectively set an activation state of a vestigial key setof a keyboardon a key sideof a keyboard chassishinged along a top axis to a display chassis. The clamshell-slate hybridmay retract the vestigial key setbased on an activation state. The clamshell-slate hybridmay receive a user input in a touch screen displayon a display sideof the display chassis

Convertible clamshell to slate device

Using geographic familiarity to generate search results

A search engine database is utilized to identify 'entities', or things for which there exists associated discrete, objective information. For hosted information that is independently available, the entity detector independently accesses such information and identifies entities. For information that has defined potential entities, such as entertainment or lifestyle information such defined potential entities are provided to the entity detector to verify, with reference to the search engine database, whether they are entities. Once entities have been identified, a related task generator, with reference to the search engine database, identifies tasks that are related to the identified entities. Such tasks include informational tasks, economic tasks, time-sensitive and location-sensitive tasks. The identified entities and related tasks are provided to applications, with metadata quantifying confidence, relationship, importance, location and time sensitivity, and the like, thereby enabling those applications to proactively provide selects ones of that information to users.

Proactive delivery of related tasks for identified entities

Real-time query expansion (RTQE) is a process of supplementing an original query with addition terms or expansion choices that are ranked according to some figure of merit and presented while users are still formulating their queries. As disclosed herein, phrases may be presented and one or more terms of a focused-on phrase may be pinned (as desirable to the user). Subsequent lists may be presented as a function of pinned terms and/or user input. In one embodiment, a placeholder may be substituted for one or more pinned terms if less than some predetermined threshold of phrases is able to be presented based upon the pinned terms and/or user input, and another list of phrases may be presented as a function of a query using fewer than all the pinned terms. The placeholder may allow out-of-index phrases to be formed, for example, based upon two or more phrases and/or terms input by the user.

Phrase generation using part(s) of a suggested phrase

Architecture that computes cross-streets of a geographic location using a dynamic routing service. This also means execution can be local on a mobile device without the need to build an additional index of locations and associated cross-streets. Accordingly, the user can now find the cross-streets of a particular location rather than simply the street address. Upon receiving geolocation data for the geographic location, for which the nearest cross-streets are being determined, routing points from which routes are generated to the main point of interest are selected to be sufficiently distant from the main point of interest, since if the routing points are too close, the route may not yield a route sufficiently detailed from which the cross-streets can be inferred. The output is then cross-streets on either side of the geographic location as a means for providing a quick reference to a user seeking the location.

Routing service for computation of a cross-street associated with a geographic location

A redirection object may be obtained, based on a current request of a current requestor. The redirection object request may be associated with a response to a previous request for a redirection to a destination network location, the previous request associated with a previous requestor. A current transmission origination location associated with a current requestor transmission of the current request may be determined. It may be determined whether the current transmission origination location includes a similarity to a previous transmission origination location associated with a previous transmission of the previous request, based on identification information included in the redirection object. It may be determined whether to initiate a redirect operation of the current requestor to the destination network location, based on a result of the determining of the similarity between the current transmission origination location and the previous transmission origination location.

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Gary Voronel