Rajat R Mittal

US Patent:

20090049023, Feb 19, 2009

Filed:

Aug 13, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/891772

Inventors:

Rajat R. Mittal - Arlington TX, US
Jeremy A. Forsberg - Bedford TX, US

Assignee:

Board of Regents, The University of Texas System - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 4, 707E17014

Abstract:

A method and computer program are provided for collaboratively searching one or more distributed computer systems using a web-based user-interface on a computer system. At least a portion of the search processing is remotely performed on the one or more distributed computer systems. The method and computer program include presenting a web-based user interface to a user having one or more search parameters, receiving one or more of the search parameters from the user interface, generating a search request containing the received one or more search parameters, transmitting the search request to at least one other computer system, receiving a search response from the at least one other computer system containing one or more search results from the another computer system, and a sixth computer code for displaying the search results on the user interface.