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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Derek Jason Phillips, Waterloo, CA;
Zhanna Shamis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joanne McKinley, Waterloo, CA;
Jimmy S. Shih, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for implementing an auto-complete feature for contact entry on mobile devices are described. In some embodiments, a mobile device downloads from a server a number of contacts associated with a user, wherein the number of contacts is a subset of contacts in a contact list of the user. Upon receiving a partial contact entry from the user that includes a string of one or more characters, the mobile device identifies contacts from the downloaded contacts matching the partial entry. The mobile device displays no more than a preset number of matching contacts on the display of the mobile device at any one time, in a particular order, with an option for the user to display and fetch for more matching contacts. Other embodiments are also described.