Patent ID: 8515994

Claim:
A method comprising: determining a source Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and a download URI of a resource downloaded from a network to a user workstation, the source URI identifying a number of available resources and comprising a location usable for reaching a web page containing at least one link and the download URI comprising a location usable for reaching, by activating one of the at least one link, the resource which is downloaded; extracting meta data from the downloaded resource; storing the source URI, the download URI, and the extracted meta data on the user workstation in a storage repository, in association with identifying information for the downloaded resource, for subsequently populating a search query; presenting a user interface to a user of the user workstation, the user interface containing a plurality of fields; receiving, from the user, resource identifying information in a first of the fields; using the resource identifying information to access the storage repository and to retrieve therefrom the previously-stored meta data, source URI, and download URI; preloading the retrieved meta data, the retrieved source URI, and the retrieved download URI in corresponding second ones of the fields; populating the search query from the second ones of the fields, after any user edits thereto; performing a network search, using the populated search query, for a second resource located in a network neighborhood of the downloaded resource, the network neighborhood comprising one or more additional resources which are each distinct from the downloaded resource and which each share at least one common characteristic with the downloaded resource and the second resource being distinct from the downloaded resource; and displaying results of the network search on the user interface of the user workstation.