Patent ID: 7653704

Claim:
A computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer system connected to a network are capable of causing the computer system to: define a meta-folder as a type of graphical element, wherein an instantiation of the meta-folder graphical element type is associable with 1) one or more search objects having corresponding search criteria and 2) one or more conventional objects that are unrelated to the search criteria; display, via a first graphical interface of the computer system, a first graphical representation of a first meta-folder instantiated on the computer system, wherein the first meta-folder statically points to at least one conventional object that is unrelated to the corresponding search criteria for the first meta-folder; upon selection of the first graphical representation via the first graphical interface: for any search objects associated with the first meta-folder, initiate searching the computer system and the network for conventional objects that satisfy the corresponding search criteria; and display, via the first graphical interface, a second graphical representation of the first meta-folder that includes graphical elements representing 1) any conventional objects located as a result of the searching and 2) the at least one conventional object statically pointed to by the first meta-folder.