Patent ID: 8001114

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting, by an electronic device, an original search input; detecting an excluded term within the original search input; forming a modified search input, wherein the modified search input includes the original search input without the excluded term; matching a plurality of stored terms originating from a plurality of messages being searched against the modified search input that includes the original search input without the excluded term, and forming a modified matched result that includes a first plurality of selected messages of the plurality of messages being searched; and selectively matching the plurality of stored terms originating from the plurality of messages being searched against the original search input that includes the excluded term, and forming an original matched result that includes a second plurality of selected messages from the plurality of messages being searched, the selectively matching and the forming both performed in response to the number of matches within the modified matched result that includes the plurality of selected messages of the plurality of messages being searched being below a threshold.