Patent ID: 8024335

Claim:
A method for automatically presenting a search interface facility on a display comprising: receiving search parameters that include a search criteria and a file location to be searched; determining that a first amount of files within the file location have file content that matches the search criteria, wherein the file content is the subject matter of a file; determining that a plurality of attributes associated with one or more files in the file location have a file attribute value that matches the search criteria, wherein a file attribute is a characteristic of the file; for each of the plurality of attributes, determining how many files in the file location contain an attribute value that matches the search criteria; and displaying a search box having a first panel and a second panel, wherein the first panel displays each of the plurality of attributes with an indication adjacent to each of the plurality of attributes, wherein the indication communicates how many times an attribute displayed adjacent to the indication has an attribute value for a file in the file location that matches the search criteria, and wherein the second panel displays the first amount of files within the file location that have file content that matches the search criteria and at least one input button that activates an automatic option to change the search parameters.