Patent ID: 7831601

Claim:
A computer-implemented apparatus for generating an automatic search query for an electronic mail application integrating an electronic calendar system comprising: a processor configured to: monitor documents with which a user has interacted; obtain content data and metadata from the monitored documents; create an index of documents with which the user has interacted by indexing the content data and metadata obtained from the monitored documents; receive an input comprising a user-selected calendar entry from the electronic calendar system; in response to receiving the user-selected calendar entry, automatically generate a search query from the user-selected calendar entry to search the index of documents with which the user has interacted for one or more documents related to the selected calendar entry; execute said search query by locating one or more documents in the index of documents with which the user has interacted that are related to the selected calendar entry; and provide search results to the user, wherein the search results include the one or more documents located during the execution of the search query.