Patent ID: 7389287

Claim:
A system for use in a computer for enabling search for information through multimedia documents, comprising: in a computer, an input processor for receiving a user entered search information item; a data processor for accessing information in at least one local repository in said computer including data identifying a plurality of different types of indexed multimedia documents including a text file type, web page type and email message type; a user interface enabling a user to access content of said plurality of different types of indexed multimedia documents including text file type, web page type and email message type; a database processor for generating said information in said at least one local repository including said data identifying said plurality of different types of indexed text searchable multimedia documents including text data files, email messages and web pages, said information in said at least one local repository enabling access to content of said indexed text searchable multimedia documents for searching said content of said indexed text searchable multimedia documents; and a search processor for searching said information in said at least one local repository and for searching said content of said text searchable multimedia documents including text data files, email messages and web pages identified using data in said at least one local repository to provide search results identifying a plurality of multimedia documents in response to said user entered search information item.