Patent ID: 7693902

Claim:
A method for searching data, comprising: receiving from a requesting device over a character-limited text messaging protocol, a search request text message that comprises a first quantity of message characters not greater than a predefined quantity of message characters that are allowed for the character-limited text messaging protocol, and the search request text message includes a search term and an identifier of the requesting device; obtaining a plurality of categories of search results, wherein each category is ordered by relevance to at least the search term, and wherein each search result within each category is ordered by relevance to at least the search term; and transmitting to the requesting device over the character-limited text messaging protocol, an initial result text message that comprises a second quantity of message characters not greater than the predefined quantity of message characters that are allowed for the character-limited text messaging protocol, and wherein the initial result text message includes: a most relevant search result of a most relevant category; a user instruction for requesting a subsequent result text message for a next most relevant search result of either the most relevant category or another category; and a selectable link to a web page of the plurality of categories of search results.