Patent ID: 6970870
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A medium storing instructions adapted to be executed by a processor to perform a method of facilitating access to documents, said method comprising: receiving an investment research document from a content publisher; receiving an indication of a first document tag from the content publisher, wherein the first document tag is associated with first domain having a single-rooted, hierarchical data structure; automatically determining an associated tag for the document based on a rule associated with the first document tag, wherein the associated tag is associated with a second domain having a single-rooted, hierarchical data structure; transmitting an indication of the associated tag to the content publisher; receiving an indication from the content publisher, the indication indicating whether the automatically determined associated tag is appropriate; assigning a second document tag to the investment research document based on the associated tag and the received indication; retrieving the investment research document in accordance with the second document tag and at least one of: (i) a reader tag, (ii) a request tag, and (iii) an entitlement tag; and transmitting the retrieved investment research document to a content reader via a communication network.