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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:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Lawrence Chang, Foster City, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a search dialog user interface. In one aspect, a method includes displaying a search using interface, comprising: a search dialog user interface in which a plurality of search threads are initiated, each search thread comprising a plurality of entries, wherein the entries comprise: one or more query messages, each query message being descriptive of one or more search criteria, one or more result messages, each result message being a message describing criteria for a corresponding search and that is responsive to one or more preceding query messages within the search thread; and a search result display location in which search results corresponding to an active result message are displayed.


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