Patent ID: 11907316
Assignee: nan
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory processor readable medium embodying computer program instructions, wherein the instructions are operative to cause at least one processor of a computing device to carry out steps, comprising:
(a) causing to be assigned within a text entry application a text string start indicator and a text string end indicator,
(b) enabling receipt from a user of the computing device into the text entry application through at least one input device of the computing device, user entered text, wherein the user entered text includes therein as a subset thereof the text string start indicator, then immediately thereafter search string text, and then immediately thereafter the text string end indicator,
wherein search string text includes a plurality of characters selected and arranged by the user,

(c) responsive at least in part to receipt of the text string start indicator, the search string text, and the text string end indicator in (b), automatically providing through at least one output device of the computing device,
a user interface output,
wherein the user interface output includes output text that includes in order the text string start indicator, then immediately thereafter the search string text, and then immediately thereafter the text string end indicator wherein the search string text, is displayed as a hyperlink,

(d) enabling receipt of at least one input through the at least one input device corresponding to user selection of the hyperlink in the user interface output,
(e) responsive at least in part to receipt of the at least one input to the at least one input device corresponding to user selection of the hyperlink,
(i) automatically communicating via a web browser application,
(ii) invoking in the web browser application a web search based on the search string text,
(iii) receiving results of the web search invoked in (e) (ii), and
(iv) outputting through the at least one output device, indicia corresponding to at least a portion of the results of the web search received in (e) (iii).