Patent ID: 7627598

Claim:
A system operating in response to instructions embodied in computer readable media, permitting a search for information in a repository in a computer and through documents accessible via the Internet, comprising: in a computer, a display menu generator for initiating generation of data representing menu items permitting user entry of text search information items; an Internet processor for initiating an Internet search to acquire results of a search of content of a plurality of text searchable multimedia documents at a remote information source, remote from said computer, via the Internet to provide first search results derived from said remote information source and identifying web pages, in response to a user entered text search information item; a database processor for generating indexed information in at least one local repository including searchable text content of a plurality of different types of indexed text searchable multimedia documents including text data files, email messages and web pages, the generated information in said at least one local repository including data identifying 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 indexed text searchable multimedia documents including text data files, email messages and web pages in said at least one local repository to provide second search results derived from said at least one local repository identifying a plurality of multimedia documents in response to a user entered text search information item, said at least one local repository comprising at least one database, said content of said indexed text searchable multimedia documents is stored in said at least one repository and said content of said plurality of text searchable multimedia documents at said remote information source comprising web page text content stored in at least one remote repository.