Patent ID: 8195660

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining data of interest on a local computing device, the data of interest consisting essentially of device specific information and device descriptions of network devices connected to a local network to which the local computing device is also connected; receiving a query with regard to one of the network device connected to the local network; modifying the query based on the data of interest and submitting the query to at least one query processor; receiving query results in a first order in response to a submitted query pertaining to one of the network devices; scoring each of at least a subset of the query results as a function of the data of interest; reordering the query results into a second order as a function of the scoring; and wherein: the query results includes query results from an Internet search engine; and the scoring each of at least the subset of the query results as the function of the data of interest includes: obtaining at least a subset of web page data of at least a subset of web pages represented in the Internet search engine query results; and identifying and counting unique features represented in the data of interest that occur in the obtained data of each of the web pages including counting occurrences of each unique feature in the obtained data of each of the web pages.