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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Philomena F. Lobo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Uday M. Mantripragada, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijay Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Tejaswi Tenneti, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan D. Shelby, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jae Woo Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter W. Roman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a technique for refining search results presented in a graphical user interface of a search application operating at a user device. A scrollable category list is presented in the graphical user interface, where the scrollable category list includes a number of categories related to a search query provided by a user of the user device. Categories that are available within a geographic region associated with a location of the user device are included in the scrollable category list.