US 12,242,549 B1
Unified search and navigation for cloud-based services
Shantanu Salgaonkar, San Carlos, CA (US); Richard Douglas Suttles, San Jose, CA (US); Jack Ronald Russell, Palo Alto, CA (US); Rodrigo Castaneda, Berkeley, CA (US); Sonia Ramnani, Newark, CA (US); Rohan Murthy, San Francisco, CA (US); Ramachandran Madras Subramaniam, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ankit Ashvin Bhodia, Mountain View, CA (US); Adit Ajaykumar Shah, San Francisco, CA (US); Shahebaj Mahemood Pathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Rachel Alicia Stanik, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/364,834.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/9532 (2019.01); G06F 16/904 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/954 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9532 (2019.01) [G06F 16/904 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/954 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a unified search system comprising one or more processors and one or more memories to store computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
receive textual input entered via a search interface, wherein the search interface is displayed in a user interface concurrently with a management console for a cloud provider network, wherein the cloud provider network hosts a plurality of services, and wherein at least a portion of the services host a plurality of resources;
perform a search of one or more indexes based at least in part on the textual input, wherein the one or more indexes are usable to determine service names of the plurality of services and descriptive information for the plurality of services;
generate search results of the search, wherein the search results comprise a portion of the service names and a portion of the descriptive information, and wherein the search results are displayed in the user interface via a search results overlay, wherein the search results overlay is displayed concurrently over at least a portion of the management console for the cloud provider network without a loss of data displayed in the management console and wherein the search results overlay occludes the portion of the management console for the cloud provider network over which the portion is displayed; and
receive additional input entered via the search results overlay, wherein the additional input comprises a selection of a particular one of the search results, and wherein, responsive to the selection, a management console for the particular one of the search results or additional information for the particular one of the search results is displayed in the user interface.