Patent ID: 7823066

Claim:
A method to facilitate the presentation of data associated with defined context-based events, wherein the data is retrieved from at least one database based upon receiving an event selection criterion from a user, and wherein the data is in various media formats, the method comprising: receiving the event selection criterion from the user via an interactive console; executing a standing query to continuously poll the at least one database, the standing query including at least one condition generated based on the event selection criterion received from the user via the interactive console; identifying the data stored in the at least one database that satisfies the at least one condition of the standing query, the data being captured and stored in the at least one database as the context-based events occur; displaying on the interactive console a list of context-based events associated with the data that satisfies the at least one condition of the standing query, wherein the list of context-based events is automatically updated as data associated with new context-based events satisfying the at least one condition is captured and stored in the at least one database during the execution of the standing query; and presenting the data in varying media formats to the user, the data being associated with one or more context-based events selected by the user, wherein the interactive console has a media player for each media format available in the at least one database, and said presenting data in varying media formats includes, for each data in a particular media format, presenting the data via a media player associated with the media format.