Patent ID: 9311069
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a user with access to an item, the method comprising: receiving an indication of a search request from a user at a computing device, the search request including one or more search criteria; identifying one or more items maintained at one or more sources accessible by the user at the computing device meeting the search criteria, wherein at least one identified item is not locally available; determining an application associated with each of the one or more items, wherein an application is associated with an item when the application facilitates access to the item; generating an instance of each of the one or more items; and providing the instance of each of the one or more items for display to the user at the computing device in response to the search request, wherein the provided instance of each of the one or more items facilitates user interaction with the item with at least partial functionality directly from the provided instance of the item without accessing the application associated with the item, wherein the item is provided for downloading when the item is not locally available, and wherein the application associated with the item is provided for downloading to provide additional functionality when the application associated with the item is not locally available.