534 results about "Search box" patented technology

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for providing a user interface that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating a phone.

A system and related techniques accept user-inputted search terms, for example to perform a search for files or other data or objects. Corresponding matches to those terms may be presented to the user in a “word-wheel”-type breakout list generated on the fly for groupings of hits by attributes or other criteria, as the system searches through the file system at the current level or point in the file system hierarchy. According to embodiments, when the search logic fails to locate a hit on the inputted search term at the current level or point in the file system hierarchy, an extension of the search to different levels or points in the file system hierarchy may be automatically generated, and for instance presented to the user as a selectable search box. That box may for example be highlighted to the user for easy selection. When the user does select the selectable search box, the user's search, for instance for files of type or extension “.doc” or “.memo”, may be seamlessly extended to other files, folders, trees or other points or levels in the file system hierarchy. Search results may be continuously or dynamically updated as the user, for example, enters more characters or other data.

An operating system program launch menu, such as a Start menu, provides various mechanisms for a user to quickly and efficiently locate and launch desired data items such as programs, data files, storage locations, and the like. A search box within the program launch menu may be used to quickly locate programs, documents, communications, and other data items. An auto-complete feature may be used, e.g., when the user restricts the locations searched for the user-entered search text. A most commonly used program list may include programs based on various criteria including both frequency of use and recent use, thereby always including a most recently used item. An all programs view may display programs and documents in a hosted-tree view within the original confines of the program launch menu, thereby negating the need to open sub-menus on top of a large portion of the desktop displayed on the display device.

The present invention provides a federated search tool and search methods that consolidate searches to external online accounts of a user and other people that are part of the user's social network. In some embodiments, the search tool is presented as a single search box that may appear persistently on the user's desktop display or as a toolbar embedded within another application. The search tool may be embedded as part of web page. Embodiments of the present invention may provide the results in a simple real-time display stack or a static result list, such as a web page. Blocks in the stack may indicate a result and the context of the result, such as which online account originated the result, whether the result is from a linked external accounts of people associated with the user, pointers to people and groups the user has linked to, an age of the result, and the like. The present invention may also permit the user to search the Internet generally, such as well known search engines, and to search the contents of their local machine, such as documents, emails, pictures, and the like. In addition, the present invention allows searches to be performed asynchronously to various linked external online account sites and then provides these results as they arrive.

Method and apparatus for entering search queries are disclosed. The method includes presenting a web page, wherein the web page includes at least a story and a thumbnail image associated with the story, dragging the thumbnail image to a search box on the web page, releasing the thumbnail image to the search box, and populating the search box with keywords associated with the thumbnail image.

A single search system that returns relevant search results for a user search query by identifying user intent and context implied therein. The inventive system supports POI and address searches initiated from a single search box only. Search query data is input in to a single search box on a single search client to initiate a search for an arbitrary piece of data. Meta-data concerning a nature of a search is not provided to the single search system. A search servlet on a single search server uses an ordered series of filter methods to progressively extract specific aspects of user intent from a freeform search query, and accumulate intent information within a context shared by all filters. The single search system determines a data corpus to search based on context provided in a user search query. Relevant search results are returned to the single search client in a search response.

An operating system program launch menu, such as a Start menu, provides various mechanisms for a user to quickly and efficiently locate and launch desired data items such as programs, data files, storage locations, and the like. A search box within the program launch menu may be used to quickly locate programs, documents, communications, and other data items. An auto-complete feature may be used, e.g., when the user restricts the locations searched for the user-entered search text. A most commonly used program list may include programs based on various criteria including both frequency of use and recent use, thereby always including a most recently used item. An all programs view may display programs and documents in a hosted-tree view within the original confines of the program launch menu, thereby negating the need to open sub-menus on top of a large portion of the desktop displayed on the display device.

A system fetches, parses, organizes and displays aggregated XML-based content, including—but not limited to—RSS feeds, XML feeds, ATOM feeds, RDF feeds, CDF feeds and Podcasts, embedding that information into a newsreader or aggregator format in the computer user's desktop wallpaper. This creates a fully interactive wallpaper system that pushes information the user desires to his desktop on a regular and continuing basis. In various embodiments, the newsreader can include a variety of content, including Internet search boxes, weather information, advertising and more. The newsreader includes “Hide” and “Show” buttons to allow the computer user to hide the interactive content from view. While the current embodiment is for the display of news information aggregated from Internet sources, the system can be used for many other applications, as well, including—but not limited to—intra—and interoffice communication, technical diagnostic display, document and media editing / management and instant messaging.

An operating system program launch menu, such as a Start menu, provides various mechanisms for a user to quickly and efficiently locate and launch desired data items such as programs, data files, storage locations, and the like. A search box within the program launch menu may be used to quickly locate programs, documents, communications, and other data items. An auto-complete feature may be used, e.g., when the user restricts the locations searched for the user-entered search text. A most commonly used program list may include programs based on various criteria including both frequency of use and recent use, thereby always including a most recently used item. An all programs view may display programs and documents in a hosted-tree view within the original confines of the program launch menu, thereby negating the need to open sub-menus on top of a large portion of the desktop displayed on the display device.

The invention belongs to the field of artificial intelligence and particularly relates to a hop searching based conflict-avoiding path planning method for multiple robots. The method specifically comprises the following steps: 1. preprocessing a map into a data map; 2. carrying out path planning on all agents by using a searching framework of CBS, i.e., Conflict-based Search and using an unconstrained hop searching algorithm; 3. traversing a multiway tree to carry out conflict detection, constraint increasing and constrained path planning on all the agents. According to the hop searching basedconflict-avoiding path planning searching algorithm, provided by the invention, through greatly reducing the quantity of expanding nodes during path planning, the efficiency of searching of conflict-free path sequence algorithms of all the agents planned by a system is increased; during path re-searching in conflict processing, real distance from a current node to an end point is directly searched through an EfftiveG table, thus, the time for planning conflict-free path sequences of all the agents by the system is shortened again, and the searched shortest path can be closer to a real path.

The invention provides a method for providing goods search results, which is characterized by comprising detecting goods names in a search box; performing matching search in a data base based on the goods names and obtaining information data about goods; and displaying the goods information data to users on a search result page according to specific structures. The method further provides the users with functions of interaction, customization and error alarming. Correspondingly, the invention further provides a device for providing the goods search results. The method and the device for providing the goods search results meet needs for obtaining effective information of the users in general goods search and promote user experience.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a user interface component generation method and device. The method comprises the steps that a component library is uploaded, and components in the componentlibrary is called, wherein the component library comprises a search box, a data and time selector, a tree component, a pop-up box, image polygon hot area drawing and the like; when one component is called from the component library, the component is displayed on a display interface, a view layer of the component monitors a page attribute set event requested to be executed by a developer, and the event is fed back to a logical layer of the component, so that data of the logical layer is modified according to the page attribute set event. Due to the fact that document identification of page elements of the view layers of the components and document identification of the data processed by the logical layers are bound, the view layers only need to render the data in the logical layers of the to-be-called components in the view layers of the components according to the document identification, that is to say, custom adjustment on the components can be completed, the operator does not need to operate document object models one by one, operation is easy, and the efficiency is high.

The invention relates to an information search method and a device, wherein the information search method includes the following steps: when a user selects text information, displaying a suspending search panel that is provided with a search box and a search button, and uploading the text information to the search box; and when the user clicks the search button or a keyboard confirm button, transmitting a corresponding search request to a server according to the text information and displaying the search result in a new browser tab or a new browser window. In the embodiment of the invention, by displaying the suspending search panel when the user selects the text information and uploading the text information selected by the user to the search box of the suspending search panel to be searched, the times of operating a mouse or a keyboard by the user can be reduced during the process of search, and the use is convenient and fast.

The invention provides a method for providing a dynamic searching page, which includes the following steps: detecting key words in a search box; judging the most relevant searching method based on the key words; and changing labels on a searching box page according to relevant searching methods. Correspondingly, the invention further provides a device for providing the dynamic searching page. The method and the device for providing the dynamic searching page reduce operation times for users to adjust to an ideal searching method and improve experience of the users.

In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to predict search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system architecture comprises a communications module to receive a query from a remote end-user where the query includes one or more characters contained within a first single communications packet. A query engine is coupled to the communications module. The query engine uses the one or more characters from the query to predictively match keywords contained within a data structure (e.g., a database) and forms a response from the one or more characters. The response is transmitted back to the end-user within a second single TCP communications packet.

The invention discloses a processing method and device of a search result. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a current search word received in a search box of a client; inquiring to obtain a search result list according to the current search word; returning the search results in the search result list to be displayed on the client, and then monitoring an operation behavior corresponding to the search result; extracting a tag of the search result having the operation behavior, and calculating an online weight value of each tag; inquiring from a historical search log to obtain a historical search result list corresponding to the current search word, and acquiring a historical tag weight value corresponding to the tag of each historical search result; re-sequencing the tags of the search results according to the online weight value and the historical tag weight value, and generating a recommend tag list; and pushing a search result corresponding to the current search word to the client according to the recommend tag list. By adopting the method and device, the technical problem of the prior art that an accurate search result cannot be obtained by virtue of the search method.

The invention discloses a multi-media recording method. The recording method comprises the steps of S1, starting the recording program of the multi-media, dividing the screen into parts which comprises at least the following parts, a video window, an audio window and a text input window, S2, when a user clicks the 'recording' key, starting recording, video recording and text recording, S3, when the user clicks the 'play' key, starting playing sounds, images and texts, and S4, when the user clicks the 'search' key, and a search box being popped up, when a text to be matched is input by the user, searching the matched texts, after finding the matched texts, a player turning to the corresponding video and sounds of the timestamp of the location of the corresponding text. By means of the recording method of the multi-media, not only are the handwritten characters integrated into the application of recording and video recording and gathered together to form a novel recording mode, but also content searching is convenient and fast with the adoption of corresponding relations set up by time windows.

The invention discloses a calling-out method of a mobile phone desktop search box. A drop-down menu notification bar is arranged above any operation interface of a screen; a search box is arranged in the drop-down menu notification bar, and a retrieval result list view is arranged below the search box; the search range of the search box covers a memory card and a storage space in the mobile phone; and the search content is set. The search box calling-out method comprises the following steps that: 1, a user clicks on the drop-down menu notification bar of any operation interface; 2, the user finds the search box from the drop-down menu notification bar and inputs a search keyword in the search box; 3, a background program searches the memory card and the storage space in the mobile phone, and displays the search keyword on the retrieval result list view; 4, the user selects the search content according to the retrieval result list view and enters the related application program; and 5, the search is completed. According to the invention, a search box can be called out on any operation interface, thereby being more convenient and quicker and more humanized and improving the efficiency.

A method comprising detecting an indication of entering a brand name in a search box from a client machine; responsive to detecting the indication, providing selectable images of categories of products of the brand and selectable product aspects of the products; detecting an indication of the selection of a product category and a product aspect from the client machine; responsive to detecting the indication of the selection of the product category and of the product aspect, providing selectable images of styles of products; and responsive to detecting an indication of the selection of an image of a product style, providing a number of selectable images of at least one product of the selected product category of the brand, the at least one product being of the selected style and aspect. The aspects may include a color selectable as a range of shades of the color.

The invention provides a method, a device and a system for recommending hot words. When a searching requirement of a user is recognized, recommended hot words are shown in other interface areas except for a searching frame, wherein the recommended hot words comprise at least one of the hot words shown in a resource list form corresponding to a searching result and the hot words shown in a detail page form corresponding to the searching result. According to the method, the device and the system provided by the invention, the user can see more recommended hot words during a searching process, the searching requirement of the user is met as far as possible, sufficient reference value is supplied to the user, and the problem that the user does not know how to search when the user enters into an application is avoided.

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a multifunctional search window (search box) service, and more specifically, to a method and a system which can provide a multifunctional search window service for offering search and shortcut services based on various search rules and shortcuts that are generated by users, and suggest recommended search words and recommended search rules when a certain query is inputted. To this end, the present invention provides a search window service system positioned on the front end of a conventional search engine or service server. The search window service system comprises: a search word recommendation DB used to recommend search words which are associated with a query inputted by users, a search rule recommendation DB used to recommend search rules which are used in association with the search words, a personal settings information DB for storing settings information of each user, a search window information DB for storing settings information of each search window, a search rule information DB for enabling the users to directly register search rules, and a shortcut DB for enabling the users to directly register shortcut information; a query recommendation module for helping the inputting of the search words and the search rules for the inputted query on the basis of the search word recommendation DB and the search rule recommendation DB; a settings information restoration module for classifying and restoring queries according to each element on the basis of the personal settings information DB and the search window information DB; a command analysis module for perceiving whether the classified and restored query is a command, and configuring messages to execute the corresponding commands; a message restoration module for converting the query which is classified and restored via the settings information restoration module or the command analysis module into the messages on the basis of the search rule information DB and the shortcut information DB; a redirection module for redirecting the message which is generated from the message restoration module or the command analysis module to the users by using the redirection method; a template module for returning the message which is generated from the message restoration module to the users by using the template method; and a proxy module for returning the message which is generated from the message restoration module to the users by using the proxy method.

The invention relates to a multi-peak target tracking method with fusion of background information. According to the method, the background information near the target is utilized, the background information of the same size is extracted from eight concrete positions of upper left, upper, upper right, left, right, lower left, lower and lower right of a current frame target search box to act as candidate target search boxes, the response of the candidate target boxes is computed by using the circulation matrix of the correlation filter tracking method and the Gaussian kernel function, and the classifier parameters are trained and updated so that the success rate in case of rotation change of the target can be enhanced. Existence of the interference situation of similar targets is considered, and the multi-peak target detection strategy, i.e. the possibility that the target is located in any one of multiple peaks of the target output response diagram, is utilized so that the accuracy oftarget tracking can be enhanced.

A method and apparatus for displaying information are provided. When a terminal receives a request for starting a browser, the terminal obtains quick links and web applications that are cached in local database of the terminal and displays the obtained quick links by combinations of webpage icons and webpage titles in a middle screen display interface of a start page of the browser for the requester. When receiving a request for switching display interfaces of the start page of the browser, the terminal displays a search box in the start page of the browser or the obtained web applications by combinations of application icons and application titles in the start page of the browser.

The invention discloses a search guidance generation method, a system and a related server, which are used for reducing paths for users to arrive at a target web page during the searching process, and satisfying the rapid and direct searching demands of users. The search guidance generation method comprises the following steps of: receiving a search express recommending request sent by a browser when the search content in a search box changes, wherein the request carries the current search content; finding web page titles matched with the current search content from a search express database in which the web page titles and link addresses thereof are stored; generating a search express result according to the found web page titles, and returning back to the browser to show the search express result, wherein the search express result comprises the web page titles and link addresses thereof, and the number of the web page titles is not more than a preset search express number threshold. By the scheme, unnecessary search queries of users during the searching process are reduced, paths for users to arrive at the target web page during the searching process are reduced, and the rapid and direct searching demands of users are satisfied.

The invention aims at providing a method, equipment and a system for searching. The method comprises the following steps: user equipment acquires an object selected by a user by acquiring an action for selecting an object for the user according to the action of the user; and the user equipment or network equipment acquires a searching result corresponding to the object selected by the user. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages: 1) quick and convenient searching without content input in a searching frame, and searching only by selecting the content to be searched; (2) support of various information mixed searching; and (3) selection of content to be searched by the user at will by providing various selection modes for the user.

A computer network has storage devices organized into X levels and storing element-group information. To determine whether an element is a member of any target groups, each target group is validated by searching the storage devices to find a target group item and, if found, placing the target group in a validated target bin (V). Also, the element is validated by searching the storage devices to find an element item, and if found, determining from the item all groups that the element is listed as being a member of and placing such member-of groups in a search bin (S). If (S) intersects (V), the element is a member of a target group. If not, all groups in (S) are moved to a queue (Q1) corresponding to the storage device at level 1 and an iterative process searches for a membership path from the element to any target group.

The invention provides a search recommending method and device for map searching. Point of interest (POI) position coordinates are recorded in a POI index database built in advance. The method includes that S1, a keyword currently input in a search box by a user is obtained; S2, the keyword is matched with an index in the POI index database, a POI name and a POI position coordinate corresponding to a matched index are determined; S3, searching advice is provided for the user by means of the determined POI name in the step 2, and distance between the POI position coordinate and the position coordinate where the user is located is provided in searching advice. When the user only wants to obtain the distance from the current position to a certain POI, or wants to obtain the distance between the current position to a certain POI as a reference before specific location or path planning, by means of the method and device, operation is simple, and network flow is reduced.