Patent ID: 7739357

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a display unit; a selection unit; a non-visual output unit; a memory having program instructions stored thereon that are executable by the computer system to: display a first representation of a meta-folder on the display unit, wherein the meta-folder is a file system object that is associated with search criteria and one or more conventional objects unrelated to the search criteria; receive a selection of the meta-folder via the selection unit; responsive to the selection: perform a search of the computer system for conventional objects that satisfy the search criteria associated with the meta-folder; and display a second representation of said meta-folder on said display unit, wherein the second representation of said meta-folder is different from the first representation and includes visual indicia representing the results of the search and representing the one or more conventional objects unrelated to the search criteria; wherein the computer system is configured to output one or more non-visual representations of the meta-folder via the non-visual output unit.