Embedded searching system and the method thereof

• US 8,255,415 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2010
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhigu Holdings Limited
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Chiu, Chaucer, Wu, Cui
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Phuong Thao
• Application Number:
  US12/662,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20110252048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 707/769, 707/804
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

An embedded searching system uses an application name to search for the interface specifications for the application. The interface specifications are used to update default registry information of the operating system. Different applications can thus be embedded with a search field. This increases the convenience of searching for the applications. The mechanism also produces a corresponding method.

Claims

1. An embedded searching method used on at least one application via registry information of an operating system that records a registry code of the at least one application, the method comprising the steps of:

storing the application name of the at least one application and its corresponding interface specification in an application database;

searching for the at least one application in the registry information according to the application name;

searching the application database and loading the interface specification for the at least one application in order to update the registry information;

generating a search field to be embedded into an application operating interface according to the application operating interface of the at least one application and the registry information when the at least one application is executing;

receiving a search content and a search criterion after the search field is clicked; and

comparing the search content with at least one document, at least one web page, or at least one resource file of the at least one application according to the search criterion, and displaying a matched result immediately.

2. The embedded searching method of claim 1, wherein the search criterion includes search types of web page, document, directory, and hotkeys.

3. The embedded searching method of claim 2 further comprising the step of setting a search level to limit a search range and extraction range when the search criterion is the search type of web page.

4. The embedded searching method of claim 1 further comprising the step of generating a search window for entering the search content and the search criterion when the search field is clicked and displaying a search result in the search window.

5. The embedded searching method of claim 1, wherein the at least one resource file includes non-executable text strings.