Patent ID: 7155425

Claim:
A method to enable a wireless device to discover Internet businesses or services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry, comprising: entering a search handle in a wireless device that will be associated with the user's search strategy; entering query terms in the wireless device as at least part of a business name; transmitting the search handle and query terms to a knowledge engine server; sending with the knowledge engine server a find_business XML inquiry to the UDDI registry; receiving back at the knowledge engine server from the UDDI registry, a businessList message that contains a list of business names satisfying the find_business inquiry; selecting an item from the returned message for a drill-down query to the UDDI registry; using the item from the returned message as data for a UDDI registry search strategy stored with the query terms in a user profile at the knowledge engine server; and providing a shortcut for queries to the UDDI registry using the UDDI registry search strategy stored in the user profile, in response to the user's entry of the query terms to the wireless device.