Patent ID: 9600258
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system for providing a suggestion to open a previously installed native application, the system comprising: one or more processors; and determining, in response to obtaining the one or more search term predictions, that the URL suggestion of the at least one of the one or more search term predictions is associated with at least one native application of a plurality of native applications installed on the system, the at least one native application being configured to handle the URL suggestion, wherein the determining comprises filtering out native applications of the plurality of native applications corresponding to web browsers configured to handle one or more URL suggestions associated with the user input, wherein the filtering comprises comparing one or more characters in the user input to meta information associated with the at least one native application; and displaying the one or more search term predictions, together with a suggestion to open the at least one native application, as user-selectable entries in association with the search field.