Personal content item searching system and method

摘要

A system and method for enabling a user to use a user computer to search the user's personal content items hosted by an online content management service. In one aspect, the user computer is configured to obtain a search query, use the search query to identify in a local index at the user computer one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query, and display, in a graphical user interface at the user computer, a search answer summary for each of the one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query.

主权项

1. A user computer for searching a user's content items hosted by an online content management service, the user computer comprising at least one processor configured to:
obtain a search query; use the search query to identify in a local index at the user computer a first set of one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query; display, in a graphical user interface at the user computer, for at least a first content item in the first set of one or more of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query, a first search answer summary for the first content item; wherein a version of the first content item is stored at the user computer at the time the search query is obtained; wherein the first search answer summary indicates that the version of the first content item stored at the user computer is older than a version of the first content item hosted by the online content management service; send the search query over a communications network to the online content management service; receive, over the communications network from the online content management service, one or more remote answers to the search query, the one or more remote answers corresponding to a second set of one or more of the user's hosted content items identified by the online content management service, using a remote index at the online content management service, as satisfying the search query; update the graphical user interface at the user computer to display, for at least a second content item in the second set of one or more content items of the user's hosted content items that satisfy the search query, a second search answer summary for the second content item; and wherein, after the update, the graphical user interface at the user computer displays at least both the first search answer summary for the first content item and the second search answer summary for the second content item.