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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2007
Applicants:

Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mithun Sheshagiri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Priyang Rathod, Mountain View, CA (US);

Alan Messer, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mithun Sheshagiri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Priyang Rathod, Mountain View, CA (US);

Alan Messer, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system implementing a process for suggesting search queries on an electronic device is provided. The process involves displaying terms related to content accessed by a user for selection by the user, obtaining one or more key terms related to a user-selected term, and displaying the one or more key terms to the user as query suggestions corresponding to the selected term. Obtaining one or more key terms involves obtaining one or more key terms related to the selected term, based on local content information and/or external content information.


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