Patent ID: 7970799

Claim:
A method, comprising: displaying, using one or more processing units, a command button within a menu bar, wherein the command button is available to a plurality of applications on a system; receiving, using the one or more processing units, input activating the command button, wherein the input causes a text entry region to be displayed adjacent to the command button; receiving, using the one or more processing units, input into the text entry region, wherein the input corresponds to a search request; processing, using the one or more processing units, the search request as input is received by searching different types of indexed content and metadata from one or more files associated with the plurality of applications on the system; and generating, using the one or more processing units, a set of search results, wherein the set of search results is displayed adjacent to the text entry region, wherein the set of search results is categorized into a plurality of categories, and wherein the set of search results is abbreviated to include a select number of the most relevant matches to the search request.