US 11,720,584 B2
Multifunction device with integrated search and application selection
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/116,190.
Application 16/116,190 is a continuation of application No. 15/167,516, filed on May 27, 2016, granted, now 10,067,991.
Application 15/167,516 is a continuation of application No. 14/081,975, filed on Nov. 15, 2013, granted, now 9,354,811, issued on May 31, 2016.
Application 14/081,975 is a continuation of application No. 12/566,640, filed on Sep. 24, 2009, granted, now 8,589,374, issued on Nov. 19, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/210,335, filed on Mar. 16, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2019/0012353 A1, Jan. 10, 2019
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 16/248 (2019.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 16/2428 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multifunction device, comprising:
a touch screen display;
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
displaying a search input area and a soft keyboard on the touch screen display that includes a respective key that is identified with a first string of characters;
detecting a first input on the soft keyboard, the first input corresponding to selection of one or more search input characters;
in response to detecting the first input on the soft keyboard:
displaying the one or more search input characters in the search input area on the touch screen display;
performing a search of content from multiple applications on the device using the one or more search input characters;
displaying of a list of search results from the search while concurrently displaying the soft keyboard on the touch screen display, wherein the search results includes a respective result, and wherein a first portion of content corresponding to the respective result is displayed in the list of search results; and
ceasing to display the respective key with the first string of characters and displaying the respective key with a second string of characters that are different from the first string of characters;
detecting a second input on the soft keyboard, the second input corresponding to selection of the respective key while the respective key is displayed with the second string of characters;
in response to detecting the second input corresponding to selection of the respective key while the respective key is displayed with the second string of characters:
ceasing to display the soft keyboard on the touch screen display; and
displaying a second portion of content on the display that corresponds to the respective result in the list of search results, wherein the second portion of content was not displayed prior to detecting the second input.