Methods and apparatus for searching the Internet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990182-B2
Application number	US-201213684950-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2012
Priority date	Sep 8, 2010
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive the results from each search engine and display the results to the user. Thus, the user does not have to separately issue the query to each of the plurality of search engines.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, implemented at least in part via at least one hardware computer processor of a mobile communications device, of performing a search for content via the Internet, the method comprising:
receiving, at the mobile communications device, user input specifying a first search query;
transmitting, from the mobile communications device to at least one server, a representation of the first search query;
after the transmitting, receiving, at the mobile co…

Assignees

• Nuance Communications Inc

Inventors

• Sejnoha Vladimir
• Evermann Gunnar
• Regan Marc W
• Laverty Stephen W

Classifications

• G06F17/30864

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30637 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/332 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/951 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic