US Patent 10051108 Contextual information for a notification

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing contextual information for a notification. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device in response to the user device obtaining a notification in response to an occurrence of a trigger event, a query-independent request for contextual information relevant to the notification, identifying multiple search items from content in the notification, determining a relevance score for each of the multiple search items, selecting one or more of the multiple search items based on the relevance scores, and providing, to the user device for each of the selected one or more multiple search items, a respective user interface element for display with the notification, wherein each user interface element includes contextual information regarding the respective search item.