Patent ID: 7346608

Claim:
A method of selecting desired documents from a document collection comprising: reading a first query expression from a user-executable search engine, said expression comprising a user-executed indication of a first subset of said collection, said user-executed indication having been received as input from an information appliance interface to the search engine; returning to said user-executable search engine an analysis output including one or more second query expressions each indicating subsets of documents of the first subset that also fulfill the second query expression, said analysis output being output to said information appliance interface; receiving from the user-executable search engine a second user-executed indication as an analysis indicator of an analysis to be performed on the first subset, wherein the second user-executed indication comprises a selection of at least one of said one or more second query expressions received as further input from said information appliance interface to the search engine; reading said analysis indicator of said analysis to be performed on said first subset; and generating an analysis output by performing said analysis on said first subset.