Patent ID: 7031957
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer system for facilitating engagement of one or more subscribers, at least one being an author or owner of one or more documents, for the generation and performance tracking of ideas and intellectual work comprising: a data store adapted to store a first document including first data indicative of a query posed by a subscriber of one or more subscribers and a second document including second data indicative of a response to said query; and a subscriber module communicating with said data store said subscriber module being adapted to enable (i) linking of said second document to said first document to include the second document in a multi-linear common hierarchical document chain along with the first document, the multi-linier common hierarchical document chain including a plurality of linked documents related to the posed query and (ii) engagement of the subscriber with at least one of said first document and said second document with a user-adjustable level of anonymity selected by the subscriber, the subscriber selectively adjusting, subsequently to selecting an initial level of anonymity, the initially selected level of anonymity corresponding to documents in the multi-linear common hierarchical document chain after documents are linked to the common hierarchical document chain, wherein the initially selected level of anonymity of the one or more documents is adjustable by the author or the owner of the documents.