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Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2009
Applicants:

Brian Rakowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Glen Murphy, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ben Goodger, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Peter Andrew Kasting, San Jose, CA (US);

Arnaud Weber, Saratoga, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Rakowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Glen Murphy, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ben Goodger, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Peter Andrew Kasting, San Jose, CA (US);

Arnaud Weber, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

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

Embodiments for generating search shortcuts and inline auto-complete entries are described herein. An embodiment includes, detecting text input in a browser, determining if the text input corresponds to an identifier from where a search was initiated and presenting one or more identifiers and an option to search content based on the determining step. Another method embodiment includes, determining if a user attempted to navigate to an identifier or if the user provided a search query, presenting one or more search results based on the search query, providing a HTTP request concurrently with the presenting step to retrieve content associated with the identifier, and presenting a user interaction area to determine if the user intended to navigate to the identifier.


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