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Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

John M. Hornkvist, Cupertino, CA (US);

Vivek Sehgal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Raffael Hannemann, Paris, FR;

Lun Cui, Los Altos, CA (US);

Alexandre Carlhian, Paris, FR;

Thomas Deniau, Paris, FR;

Raphaeal Mor, Paris, FR;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/90328 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01);
Abstract

A device implementing a system for providing query completion suggestions includes at least one processor configured to receive a partial query, and derive one or more query completion suggestions for the partial query from content items that are locally stored on the device, each respective query completion suggestion being associated with metadata extracted from one of the content items from which the respective query completion suggestion was derived. The at least one processor is further configured to rank the one or more query completion suggestions based at least in part on the metadata associated with each of the one or more query completion suggestions. The at least one processor is further configured to provide, for display, at least one of the one or more ranked query completion suggestions.


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