Patent ID: 6862713

Claim:
A method for presenting to an end-user the intermediate matching search results of a keyword search in an index list of information comprising the steps of: coupling to a search engine executing on a webserver, a graphical user interface for accepting keyword search terms for searching the indexed list of information, wherein the information is multimedia files not related to speech recognition grammars and natural language processing databases as used in speech recognition; receiving one or more keyword search terms with one or more separation characters separating there between from the end-user; performing a keyword search with the one or more keyword search terms received after each separation character is received from the end-user; and presenting a number of documents matching the keyword search terms to the end-user without providing additional information regarding the documents matching the keyword search thereby providing feedback on a narrowness of just the keyword search terms received thus far; wherein the step of receiving includes receiving one or more separation characters that are the space character using the end-user's voice and a speech-to-text engine.