Extensible search term suggestion engine

• Main Authors: SANCHEZ OCTAVIO ALFREDO CRUZ, MISHRA MANAV, ELANGOVAN VIVEKANANDAN, GURUNATHAN ARUN, LEUNG KWONG K, WAUTIER MARC, GEBHARD DEREK S, ELLIOTT BRENDAN D, WOOD DAVID J. G, FORTIER PHILIP P, ARON ANDREI T, VAIDYANATHAN PRIYA, AVERETT EDWARD BOYLE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.06.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A search term suggestion engine of a computing device receives characters of user data as the characters are input. The user data is at least part of a search term to be provided to one of multiple applications to search for the search term. An indication of multiple suggestion sources is received from the one application, and one or more suggested search terms are obtained, from the multiple suggestion sources, based on the received characters. One or more suggested search terms can also be obtained from the multiple suggestion sources based on one or more linguistic alternatives for the received characters. The one or more suggested search terms are combined into a combined set of suggested search terms, and the combined set of suggested search terms is returned to a search user interface for presentation to the user.