Enabling a Search for Both Local and Remote Electronic Content

• US 20130066907A1
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Surendra Goel, Thomas E. Donaldson
• Inventors: GOEL, SURENDRA, DONALDSON, THOMAS E.
• Application Number:
  US13/619,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20130066907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/134 Distributed indices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/174 Redundancy elimination performed by the file system management of the data involved in backup or backup restore using de-duplication of the data G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9014 hash tables
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/959 Network
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A search for content may be performed. A query may be received from a user who is interacting with a first device. A first collection of content that is stored on the first device may be searched to identify local content that is related to the query. A second collection of content that is stored on a second device may be searched to identify remote content that is related to the query. The second device may be different from the first device and may be accessible through a network. Results that refer to both the identified local content and the identified remote content may be displayed to the user.

Claims

1. A method for performing a search for both local electronic content and remote electronic content based on a single query, the method comprising:

receiving a single query that includes at least one search term;

comparing the received search term in response to the single query with indexed electronic content that is stored on a local device to derive a first result and comparing the received search term with electronic content that is stored on a remote device to derive a second result; and

displaying the first result and the second result.

2-23. -23. (canceled)