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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Saravana Kumar Siva Kumaran, Fremont, CA (US);
Vipul Ved Prakash, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lun Cui, Fremont, CA (US);
Charles Henry Salzenberg, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus of a device that performs a multi-domain query search is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a query prefix from a client of a user. The device further determines a plurality of search completions across the plurality of separate search domains. In addition, the device ranks the plurality of search completions based on a score calculated for each of the plurality of search completions determined by a corresponding search domain, where at least one of the plurality of search completions is used to generate a plurality of search results without an indication from the user and in response to receiving the query prefix.