Patent ID: 8631004

Claim:
A method, comprising: obtaining a segment of text via a search query section of a user interface in response to input of the segment of text via the search query section of the user interface, the segment of text being a portion of a search query that has not been submitted by a user; obtaining a set of suggestions, each suggestion in the set of suggestions being a suggested completion of the search query such that the suggestion includes the segment of text; generating two or more groups of suggestions, each of the two or more groups of suggestions including a different subset of the set of suggestions, wherein each of the two or more groups of suggestions corresponds to a different interpretation of the portion of the search query that has not been submitted by a user; providing the two or more groups of suggestions such that each of the two or more groups of suggestions is displayed in a separate section of a search assistance segment of the user interface; providing a label or image in association with each of the two or more groups of suggestions such that the label or image is displayed in the user interface in close proximity to the corresponding one of the two or more groups of suggestions; and for each one of the two or more groups of suggestions, identifying a sequence of characters that is at least a portion of each suggestion in the corresponding subset of the set of suggestions; wherein providing the label or image in association with each of the two or more groups of suggestions includes providing a label or image associated with the sequence of characters that is at least a portion of each suggestion in the corresponding subset of suggestions.