Patent ID: 6651065
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of hosting a search for documents in a database that contain user-specified data, the user-specified data being entered at a computer employed by a user, the method comprising the steps of:storing, at a host, one or more indices of data in plural databases, the one or more indices identifying documents that contain data; providing, from a second site location to the computer employed by the user, a provider identifier associated with said second site location; receiving, at the host, from the computer employed by the user, the user-specified data and the provider identifier which corresponds to one of the plural databases describing data at said second site location, and wherein each of the plural databases describes data from a different site location associated with a unique provider identifier; retrieving, at the host, an index of data; and identifying documents in the retrieved index that contain the user-specified data and appear in the database corresponding to the provider identifier, thereby performing a search of the database corresponding to the provider identifier at the host.