Patent ID: 7188141

Claim:
A Web-based collaborative research method, comprising: determining coordinates for pages which are retrieved by a first user and mapping the coordinates into a space; and based on said coordinates of said pages, informing a second user of a closeness of a research by said first user, wherein an intersection of research by said first and second users is graphically displayed to said first and second users, wherein said determining comprises: determining a usage habit and a research topic of each of said first user and said second user, wherein said research topic of said first user includes at least one of a previously researched research topic and a current research topic which is currently being researched by said first user; and correlating said usage habit and said research topic of each of said first user and said second user, and wherein said notifying comprises: notifying said second user that said research topic of said first user is related to said research topic of said second user.