Patent ID: 9451428
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a query message that is formatted as a Short Messaging Service (SMS) message, a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message, or an e-mail message; identifying textual characters in the query message that correspond to user-provided parameters; extracting the identified textual characters as one or more terms from text of the query message that is formatted as an SMS message, an MMS message, or an e-mail message; generating a search query that includes the one or more terms from the text of the query message that is formatted as an SMS message, an MMS message, or an e-mail message; transmitting the generated search query that includes the one or more query terms that were obtained from the text of the query message that is formatted as an SMS message, an MMS message, or an e-mail message, to a search engine that (i) indexes content of one or more web resources, and (ii) outputs, as search results, data identifying web resources whose indexed content is associated with query terms of search queries; and receiving, from the search engine, search results for the generated search query that includes the one or more query terms that were obtained from the text of the query message that is formatted as an SMS message, an MMS message, or an e-mail message.