Patent ID: 7703040
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of responding to a user input, the method comprising: displaying a user interface to be displayed on a computer display of a computing device outside of a Web browser, said user interface including a query pane for receiving user input and a results pane for displaying the results of a query; responding to the user input by displaying said user input in an active query box included in said query pane and automatically generating a search engine query including at least an automatically determined metadata property, tag, or subject matter, based at least in part on said user input, of a data corpus comprised of a plurality of file types without requiring additional user action, wherein said automatically determined metadata is not identical to said user input; displaying a word-wheel pop up when the results of said search engine query comprise a word-wheel, in response to a user selecting a word from said word-wheel pop up, changing said search engine query based on said selected word; and displaying the results of said search engine query, if any, in said results pane.