Patent ID: 8271563

Claim:
A system for intake of an intellectual property portfolio and automatically assigning by company division to company name, comprising: providing, in a computer processor device, a first data storage having a plurality of documents including at least one document, which are included in an intellectual property portfolio; predefining, in the computer processor device, a tree of attribute types including at least company, company division, and technology type, wherein the technology type is assigned to a company division, and the company division is assigned to the company; predefining, in the computer processor device, company names assigned as the company, division names assigned as company divisions for each of the company names, and products assigned as technology types for each of the company divisions; and interacting with the user to select one or more documents included in the intellectual property portfolio and a single one of the company divisions to be assigned to the selected one or more documents; tagging, automatically without user intervention, the selected one or more documents with both the selected single one of the company divisions and the company names to which the company division is assigned so that the selected one or more documents inherit the company name but not the other attribute types in the tree of attribute types in response to the assignment of the single one of the company divisions to the selected one or more documents, wherein the assigning of the selected one or more documents to the single one of the company divisions which is one attribute lower in the tree of attribute types causes the selected one or more documents to also be tagged so as to be stored in association with the attribute which is higher up in the tree of attribute types, but not inheriting the other attribute types in the tree of attribute types.