Patent ID: 7162473
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system that facilitates concurrent searching across a plurality of sources, comprising: a usage analyzer that determines user accessed items and a content analyzer that stores subsets of data corresponding to the items and sparse representations of the subsets, at least two of the items being associated with disparate sources, respectively, the disparate sources comprise local or remote data locations including files, folders, applications, images, audio files, appointments, email, and web information; an indexing component that indexes the data subsets and associates metadata with the accessed items, the metadata employed to retrieve the accessed items, and wherein the metadata includes at least one of a file path, a hyperlink, and a tag; a filter that extracts portions of the accessed items and creates sparse representations of accessed data in a content index; a search component that in response to a search query, initiates a search across the indexed data and outputs search results in the form of data, wherein the data includes documents, files, folders, applications, images, email, web information and links to locations of a subset and sparse representation of the subset; an implicit query that is derived from the search query; and a component to process implicit queries based upon potential interest to a user.