Graphical Keyboard Integrated Search Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile computing devices can only display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a single application at a time, requiring users to switch between applications to perform multiple tasks, such as text entry and searching, which is inefficient and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A keyboard application on a computing device outputs a graphical keyboard with integrated search features, allowing users to select a search element, receive query suggestions, and display search results within the keyboard, enabling seamless search functionality without leaving the current application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a user switches between applications to perform text entry and search, then multiple tasks can be completed, but time is lost and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the search application functionality directly into the keyboard application by embedding a search bar and search results display within the keyboard interface. This allows users to perform searches without leaving their current application, eliminating the need to switch between applications and reducing time loss while maintaining productivity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a user switches between applications to perform text entry and search, then multiple tasks can be completed, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The keyboard application is transformed into a multi-functional tool that not only provides text input capabilities but also integrates search functionality. By making the keyboard application universal enough to handle both text entry and search operations, the system reduces the need for separate dedicated applications, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining adaptability for multiple tasks.
3Ease of operation
If search functionality is integrated into the keyboard application, then user experience is simplified, but keyboard application complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The search functionality is nested within the keyboard application interface. The search bar is embedded in the keyboard layout, and search results are displayed in a nested manner within the same screen space. This nesting approach allows the keyboard to provide simplified user experience with integrated search without requiring separate application windows or complex multi-layer interfaces, thereby managing the complexity of the keyboard application structure.
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AI summary
A computing device is described that includes a processor a memory storing at least a keyboard application, and a presence-sensitive display. The one or more processors execute the keyboard application to output a graphical keyboard including a plurality of keys and a search element, receive an indication of a selection of the search element, and, responsive to receiving the indication of the selection of the search element, output, within the graphical keyboard, a query suggestion region including one or more suggested search queries. The keyboard application may also determine, based on an indication of a user input detected by the computing device, a search query, invoke, based on the search query, a search, responsive to invoking the search, receive search results, and output, within the graphical keyboard, a graphical indication of at least a portion of the search results.