Patent ID: 9031958
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a user-provided spatio-temporal query for use in searching for a particular file, the user-provided spatio-temporal query provided by a user of a mobile device; and determining information about the particular file responsive to the user-provided spatio-temporal query, and identifying from the information one or more files as a search result for the particular file, wherein the user-provided spatio-temporal query specifies ambient device-related events, the ambient device-related events comprising one or more events detectable from data output from an accelerometer in the mobile device; wherein the information about the particular file comprises a location of the particular file, and the user-provided spatio-temporal query for finding the location of the particular file is in a form of the particular file was accessed after another file was accessed.