DESKTOP SEARCH FROM MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20080005057A1
• Filed: 06/29/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Dumais, Susan T., Ozzie, Raymond E., Flake, Gary W., Huang, Xuedong D., Goodman, Joshua T., Meek, Christopher A., Hurst-Hiller, Oliver, Griffin, Trenholme J., Horvitz, Eric J., Gates, William H.
• Granted Patent: US 7,873,620 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

Content management architecture for a portable wireless device. Caching and fetching techniques are provided to improve content handling for portable devices such as cellular telephones and portable computers. A search component automatically performs searches as a background process, and potentially desired content is received and cached by a content storing component to be available in the future when and if needed, mitigating latency associated with slow download speeds, refresh rates, and other system and/or network impediments. Content from background search results can be trickled into the device as part of the background process so as not to burden system resources for other processes. As part of memory management, aged and/or low priority or low interest content can be selectively removed or archived to increase available cache or memory space, as well as to maintain relevant content within the device. A presentation component facilitates presentation of the pre-stored content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates searching in a wireless device, comprising:

a search component of the wireless device that performs an automated search of content stored within an intranet as a background process;

a content storing component that caches content corresponding to the search results; and

a presentation component that retrieves and presents a subset of the cached content based on user interaction with the wireless device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless device is a cellular telephone, the search component of which automatically performs the intranet search in response to a change in intranet information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation component presents the search results in response to user interaction that includes at least one of a change in user state, user context, and a user preference.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the content is presented at least one of visually and audibly.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising an environment component that senses environmental conditions in which the device is located, and based on the environmental conditions, the search component initiates the intranet search.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a context component that includes a geolocation system for determining a geographic location of the device.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a filter component that filters content of the search results based on a user preference.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tracking component that tracks and logs at least one of a system parameter, user interaction data, and an event, and infers a search query therefrom, the results of which are cached by the content storing component.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a machine learning and reasoning component that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer initiation of the intranet search by the search component.

10. A computer-implemented method of managing content on a wireless device, comprising:

initiating a search of desktop content as a background process based on triggering data;

assessing resource capabilities of the device;

controlling processing of the content based on the resource capabilities;

caching the content in a device storage system; and

accessing the content from the storage system for display based on user information.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising discarding the content from storage based on temporal information.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein assessing includes determining a burden of the background process on currently-running device processes.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising utilizing the desktop content for conducting a remote search of information on a network.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising scanning for local information that indicates intentions of a user.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein initiating is performed in response to triggering data that indicates a change geographic location of the wireless device.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising filtering search results of the desktop search based on at least one of user preferences and merchant information.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising automatically transmitting a document of the search results to a remote location.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising connecting the wireless device to a computing device and searching the desktop content of the computing device via the wireless device.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein assessing includes determining a burden of the background process on device hardware.

20. A computer-executable system for managing content of a cellular telephone, comprising:

computer-implemented means for monitoring an event of the telephone;

computer-implemented means for searching a desktop as a background process based on occurrence of the event;

computer-implemented means for caching search results in device memory; and

computer-implemented means for presenting the search results at a later time.