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United States Patent | 7,401,072 |
Piscitello , et al. | July 15, 2008 |
Methods and systems allow users to enter natural language terms that describe a particular web site into an address field of a browser instead of a formal URL. The terms are evaluated to determine whether they correspond, with a high likelihood, to a particular web site. If so, this web site may be immediately accessed. If not, a list of search results based on the terms may be displayed by the browser.
Inventors: | Piscitello; John (San Francisco, CA), Wang; Xuefu (Sunnyvale, CA), Tong; Simon (Mountain View, CA), Hagan; Breen (Cupertho, CA) |
Assignee: |
Google Inc.
(Mountain View,
CA)
|
Appl. No.: | 10/953,497 |
Filed: | September 30, 2004 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
10457488 | Jun., 2003 | ||||
60587548 | Jul., 2004 | ||||
Current U.S. Class: | 707/3 ; 707/4; 707/5; 707/6; 707/E17.069; 707/E17.07; 707/E17.108; 715/243; 715/273 |
Current International Class: | G06F 15/00 (20060101); G06F 17/00 (20060101) |
Field of Search: | 715/500 707/3-6 |
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