Patent ID: 8577832

Claim:
A method for uploading application requested data objects to a destination server, said method comprising: receiving, upon a computational platform in which files stored on the computational platform are masked from a user of the computational platform, a request from an application running on the computer platform for an upload of a data object; instancing, upon the computational platform, an uploader window including a user input field and a search-engine interface module; receiving through the user input field of the uploader window, user input terms to be used as a search engine query; transmitting, through the search engine interface module, the search engine query to one or more search engine application programming interfaces (API's); receiving a set of web pointers in response to the search engine query; displaying upon a graphic user interface (GUI) associated with the uploader window indications of a content of one or more data objects associated with one or more of the web pointers; receiving, through the GUI, a user selection of one or more of the web pointers; and automatically uploading, through the uploader window, data associated with the user selected web pointers.