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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2010
Deepa Ramachandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen M. Yolleck, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William J. Pardi, Edgewood, WA (US);
Deepa Ramachandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen M. Yolleck, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William J. Pardi, Edgewood, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This patent application relates to button-activated contextual search techniques for providing contextually relevant search functionality on a display. The single button can be a search button on a pointing device (e.g., a computer mouse device, touch pad, track ball device, etc.) configured to move a pointer on the display. The pointer can be moved to a location that is on or near an entity on the display, allowing a search to be enabled and/or performed for that entity when the search button is activated (e.g., with a single user click). Furthermore, the search functionality can be based on one or more automatically generated search terms for the entity, and thus be contextually relevant to the entity.