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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2010
Applicants:

Wai Hung Wong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

John A. Geishecker, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wai Hung Wong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

John A. Geishecker, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

YAHOO! INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 17/30651 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system for providing to a user rapid access to search resources while interacting with electronic documents by providing for recognition of user initiated search triggers that result in searches being performed with minimal user input or page navigation. A method and system for performing a web search includes detecting, by a client-side module, a user-initiated search interface trigger occurring during display of the web page, the search interface trigger not associated with an input focus of the web page or an input focus of a browser, detecting, by the client-side module, a user-initiated search execution trigger after the detecting of the search interface trigger, and transmitting, by the client-side module to a search entity, in response to the detecting of the search execution trigger, a request for search results related to content associated with the search interface trigger.


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