Patent ID: 8676792

Claim:
A method for performing an invitation triggered search by a query engine, comprising: receiving, by the query engine executing on a processor of a computer system, an invitation message associated with a project, wherein the invitation message is an e-mail invitation, wherein the invitation message is sent to a plurality of recipients and the query engine, and wherein the plurality of recipients comprises an individual person who is a project member of the project; interrupting a transmission of the invitation message to an e-mail client to extract at least one attribute associated with the project from the invitation message, wherein the at least one attribute is located in the subject line of the e-mail invitation; searching, by the query engine in response to receiving the invitation message, a plurality of sources to identify a plurality of resources associated with the at least one attribute; sending, from the query engine, a reply message comprising the plurality of resources associated with the at least one attribute to the individual person and a sender of the invitation message; removing the query engine as a recipient of the plurality of recipients after the at least one attribute is extracted; and resuming transmission of the invitation message to the e-mail client.