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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel C. Gross, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard R. Dellinger, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher P. Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason J. Gauci, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aria D. Haghighi, Seattle, WA (US);
Cyrus D. Irani, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bronwyn A. Jones, London, GB;
Gaurav Kapoor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Colin C. Morris, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael R. Siracusa, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lawrence Y. Yang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brent D. Ramerth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jannes G. A. Dolfing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Giulia P. Pagallo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xin Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Hatori, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexandre R. Moha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kevin D. Clark, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karl Christian Kohlschuetter, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Jesper S. Andersen, Portland, OR (US);
Hafid Arras, Paris, FR;
Alexandre Carlhian, Paris, FR;
Thomas Deniau, Paris, FR;
Mathieu J. Martel, Paris, FR;
Sofiane Toudji, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content are disclosed herein. An example method includes: detecting, via the touch-sensitive display, a search activation gesture from a user of the electronic device. The method also includes: in response to detecting only the search activation gesture, displaying a search interface on substantially all of the touch-sensitive display, the search interface including: (i) a search entry portion; and (ii) a predictions portion with one or more user interface objects each associated with a respective locally-installed application. Each respective locally-installed application is selected from among a plurality of locally-installed applications for inclusion in the predictions portion based on an application usage history associated with the user of the electronic device.