US 6,983,310 B2
System and method for providing search capabilties on a wireless device
Andrew Rouse, Andover, Mass. (US); Quinton Zondervan, Boston, Mass. (US); Thomas Bentley, North Chelmsford, Mass. (US); Timothy Lawson, Stow, Mass. (US); and Christopher Herot, Newton Highlands, Mass. (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/750,301.
Prior Publication US 2002/0087620 A1, Jul. 04, 2002
Int. Cl. G06F 13/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—206 35 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of enabling a wireless client device to access one or more search applications residing on at least one remote server, the method comprising:
enabling the wireless client device to select a search option from the one or more search applications for searching messages located on the at least one remote server;
enabling the wireless client device to specify search criteria, wherein the search criteria include instructions to search one or more selected fields of the messages;
processing the search criteria on the at least one remote server to determine if one or more of the messages match the search criteria;
transmitting, to the wireless client device, results of the processing of the search criteria; and
enabling the wireless client device to select an application action for execution on one or more messages that reside on the at least one remote server, wherein the selected application action includes editing the one or more messages that match the search criteria.