Patent ID: 8204916

Claim:
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for presenting search results in a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI comprising: a navigation portion that displays contents of a library that includes one or more data sources on which a search is to be conducted, wherein the contents of the library are displayed with the library as a root folder and the one or more data sources as subfolders of the root folder; an input portion that receives search criteria that is used to determine the search results; and an items-view portion that displays the search results that are responsive to the search criteria, (1) wherein the search results include files and folders from the library that satisfy the search criteria, (2) wherein the search results are displayed in a hierarchal-folder format that is consistent with a native hierarchical folder structure in which the one or more items are stored, and (3) wherein the hierarchal folder format excludes files and folders in the native folder structure that do not satisfy the search criteria, and (4) wherein an initial presentation of the search results includes only first-level subfolders that ultimately contain the files and folders that satisfy the search criteria such that files and folders are viewable by drilling down from the first-level subfolders, and wherein only subfolders that ultimately contain the files and folders below the first-level subfolders are displayed incident to receiving input that acts on an individual first-level subfolder; wherein the navigation portion, the input portion, and the items-view portion are displayed simultaneously as parts of a single interface, and wherein renaming the file and folders in the replicated folder hierarchy cause the same renaming to be made to corresponding files and corresponding folders within the native folder hierarchy.