Patent ID: 8103653
Filing Date: 2012-01-24
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system comprising one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer-readable instructions embodied therein, the computer-readable instructions operable when executed by a processor to enable searching for electronic documents that a user has previously accessed regardless of the location of the electronic documents, the computer readable instructions comprising: a desktop integration module configured to monitor one or more of a plurality of electronic documents, the plurality of electronic documents having been previously accessed by the user for one or more predetermined events; an index module configured to create an index of the monitored electronic documents, wherein creating the index includes: (1) automatically converting individual ones of the monitored electronic documents into a common format, and (2) creating one or more index entries corresponding to individual ones of the monitored electronic documents by searching one or more browser caches and intercepting one or more commands to access one or more applications regardless of the location of the monitored electronic documents, wherein a given index entry comprises content data found within a corresponding monitored electronic document; and a graphical user interface module configured to enable the user to enter one or more keywords to create a search query to be used to search the index, and in response to receiving and executing the search query, to present the search results including at least some content data from the index as text using one or more graphical displays.