Patent ID: 7895223

Claim:
A method for searching a system, the method including: receiving by a processor based device a user context that identifies a search context relative to a personal identity of an individual seeking a search result; identifying by the processor based device a portion of a connection context as relevant to the user context, the connection context identifying relationships between chosen destinations reachable throughout the system via a network having multiple information sources, the chosen destinations including data objects and address identifiers for reaching identified individuals having respective personal identities, each information source providing access to at least one of the chosen destinations, each of the relationships having a strength determined from an aggregation of artifacts representing accessing, via the network by different individuals having respective personal identities, of at least a corresponding first and second of the chosen destinations from among the information sources and having a determined correlation, a subset of the artifacts identifying destinations having been chosen independent of any search result, the aggregation identifying an increase in the strength of the relationship associated with the corresponding first and second chosen destinations, wherein each artifact is recorded within the network by the system as a corresponding chosen destination is accessed by one of the individuals using any one of a plurality of available user devices, each artifact identifies a corresponding personal identity and the corresponding chosen destination, and each relationship is updated in response to the recording of the associated artifacts for any of the different individuals, wherein the determined correlation for at least one of the relationships is determined between a first and a second of the artifacts, the first artifact recorded in response to a first of the individuals accessing the first of the chosen destinations using a first of an available user device, the second artifact recorded in response to the first of the individuals accessing the second of the chosen destinations using a second of the available user devices that is different from the first of the available user devices; and generating by the processor based device as the search result an ordered list of destination targets, including selected identified individuals identified based on their respective personal identities and selected data objects determined as relevant to the user context, including ordering the ordered list according to the portion of the connection context.