Patent ID: 6513036
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of searching and presenting electronic information from one or more information sources, said method comprising the steps of:providing one or more information sources, presenting one or more choices to a user, registering one or more user specified choices, using said one or more user specified choices to retrieve at least two references to information from said one or more information sources, providing a search result comprising said at least two references to information, wherein a first context representation is defined for each of at least two references to information of said references to information, a second context representation is defined for each of at least two other users of a group of other users, a third context representation is defined for said user, and each context representation comprises one or more indications representing other contexts with which each is related, presenting the search result to the user in a number of different ways at the same time based on one or more context representations selected from the group consisting of said third context representation for said user, said first context representations for said at least two references to information and said second context representation for said at least two other users of a group of other users, presenting additional choices to the user relating to the search result based on one or more context representations selected from the group consisting of said third context representation for said user, said first context representations for said at least two references to information and said second context representations for said at least two other users of a group of other users, and modifying at least one context representation on the basis of one or more of said context representations, wherein retrieval of said one or more references to information further uses said one or more indications of at least one context representation.