US 2019/0246243 A1 · PROACTIVE SEARCH WINDOW

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for displaying a map. The method provides a first display area to display a map, and a second display area to overlap a portion of the first display area to display (i) a field to receive a search parameter and (ii) a set of predicted locations to view on the map. The second display area is moveable over the first display area in order to decrease its size to allow a larger portion of the map to be displayed in the first display area, or to increase its size to allow a larger number of predicted locations to be displayed in the second display area. In some embodiments, the second display area overlaps a bottom portion of the first display area. In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a map application that executes on a mobile device. The set of predicted locations displayed in the second display area in some embodiments include addresses harvested from applications executing on the mobile device. Examples of such applications include electronic mail applications, text messaging applications, the map application, ticket applications, restaurant reservation applications, social media applications, real estate applications, etc. The set of predicted locations includes in some embodiments addresses associated with previous destinations traveled to by the mobile device.

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Dependent claims

A method of displaying predicted destinations on a mobile device, the method implemented by the mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving by a mapping application, from an operating system of the mobile device, a request for predicted destinations for a notification display area of the operating system;
identifying, by the mapping application, a highest ranked predicted destination from a predicted destination list;
generating, by the mapping application, for the notification display area, a predicted location output display;
and
without displaying the mapping application, causing, by the mapping application, the notification display area of the operating system to present the predicted location output display including the highest ranked predicted destination.

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A mobile device comprising a non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by at least one processing unit of a set of processing units, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

receiving by a mapping application, from an operating system of the mobile device, a request for predicted destinations for a notification display area of the operating system;
identifying, by the mapping application, a highest ranked predicted destination from a predicted destination list;
generating, by the mapping application, for the notification display area, a predicted location output display, and
without displaying the mapping application, causing, by the mapping application, the notification display area of the operating system to present the predicted location output display including the highest ranked predicted destination.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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