Patent ID: 6883008

Claim:
A system for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with alternative combinable multimedia forms of presenting information to provide real-time interactive knowledge management in support of activities conducted simultaneously by multiple users in different remote locations, comprising receiving, accessing, processing, storing, retrieving, transmitting and utilizing said data to provide said knowledge management over a distributed network of computers, further comprising: (a) library science means for categorizing said data wherein said categorizing creates a classification profile for at least one element of said data, said profile containing fields of information describing and classifying said element; (b) linguistics means for defining information acquisition, exchange and workflow to permit said categorization; (c) database means for storing said data elements according to a schema which implements said categorization; (d) media production means for representing said data elements in multimedia audible, visual and textual data in digital forms; and (e) computer software means for implementing said system over a computer network to permit interactive, multidirectional, multimedia digital data communications originated by a user from at least one first location and made available to at least one second location.