Patent Document ID: 8019741
Application ID: 12350812

Base Claim:
1. A computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein that are configured for execution by a computing device, the instructions comprising: instructions configured to generate a plurality of user selectable search mode interfaces, including at least: an email search mode interface having email-specific attribute search fields including at least a date field, a from field, and a sender field; a file search mode interface having file-specific attribute search fields including one or more of a file name field, a file type field, a date field, a file size field, and a path field; an email attachment search mode interface including one or more of a name field, a date field, a size field, and an extension field; wherein each of the email search mode interface, the file search mode interface, and the email attachment search mode interface further comprises a list pane, used to display a list of search result items, and a view pane, used to display the contents of a selected search result item; an index module that, when executed by the computing device, generates at least an email index, a file index, and an email attachment index; and a search module that, when executed by the computing device, performs incremental searching of at least one of the email index, the file index, and the email attachment index in response to the user entering characters into at least one search mode interface field.

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Claim 7:
7. The search apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein the email index comprises email attributes including one or more of sender information, addressee information, date information, folder path information, client information, cc information, and bcc information; the file index includes file attributes including one or more of file name information, file type information, date information, file size information, and path information.