Searching local network addresses
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCary Lee Bates, Paul Reuben Day, John Matthew Santosuosso
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Abstract
A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for searching local and non-local user-specific data for network addresses previously-visited by the user. In one embodiment, a network search tool allows the user to more quickly find the addresses previously-visited by matching search criteria to user-specific data and optionally combining those results obtained from a search of the network.
Claims23
A method for searching for information on a network of computers comprising a computer connected to the network of computers, the method comprising:
- receiving search request information by a first search tool;
- determining, by the first search tool, whether network information located on the network of computers satisfies the search request information;
- returning search results by the first search tool;
- determining whether one or more network addresses stored in memory associated with the computer satisfy the search results by comparing network addresses of the search results to the one or more network addresses;
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- returning, as results of the search request information, those one or more network addresses that match network addresses of the search results.
A signal-bearing media containing a search tool program which, when executed by a computer connected to a network of computers, causes at least one of the computer or the network of computers to perform the steps of:
- (a) parsing search request information;
- (b) determining whether network information located on the network of computers satisfies the search request information;
- (c) returning search results;
- (d) determining whether one or more network addresses stored in memory associated with the computer satisfy the search results by comparing network addresses of the search results to the one or more network addresses;
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- (e) returning, as results of the search request information, those one or more network addresses that match network addresses of the search results.
A computer system comprising:
- a computer comprising a processor and a memory
- a network of computers connected to the computer;
- one or more search tools resident on at least one of the computer and the network of computers, wherein the one or more search tools, when executed, are configured to perform steps comprising:
- (a) determine whether network information located on the network of computers satisfies a search query;
- (b) if network information satisfies the search query, return search results;
- (c) determine whether one or more network addresses stored in the memory match network addresses of the search results;
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- (d) return, as results of the search query, those one or more network addresses that match the network addresses of the search results.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.