Patent Document ID: 8073860
Application ID: 12018566

Base Claim:
1. A user-interface method of incrementally providing fully qualified links to a set of relevant search engines, the method comprising: identifying a set of search engines and associating each search engine of the set with at least one descriptive category to which the subject matter of the corresponding search engine relates; providing a database containing a collection of potential full queries, each potential full query associated in said database with at least one descriptive category; receiving a partial search query entered on a keypad by a user; after each keypress received from the user, inferring a set of potential full queries intended by the user, based at least in part on the partial search query; selecting a subset of the identified search engines that are relevant to the inferred full queries based on comparing the inferred full queries with the descriptive categories associated with the search engines, wherein the selecting the subset of relevant search engines is further based on the descriptive categories associated with the provided potential full queries; and for each of the selected search engines, providing a fully qualified link designed to directly launch a search for a relevant query string using the search engine.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting at least one of the fully qualified links to the user.