Patent ID: 7461358

Claim:
A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer-readable media, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, perform a method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to display representations of modifications to a knowledge entity that is stored in a knowledge base, the method comprising: displaying in a first display of a first GUI area a representation of a first modification that is applied to the knowledge entity; in response to user input in the first GUI selecting to navigate to a previously-applied modification as a previously-proposed modification, displaying in a second display of the first GUI area a representation of a second modification that was applied to the knowledge entity prior to application of the first modification and omitting display of the first modification, each of the first and second modifications being changes to portions of the knowledge entity; displaying in a third GUI area user-adjustable decision criteria; and displaying in a second GUI area representations of a plurality of previously proposed modifications to the knowledge entity, such that the second modification corresponds to one of the previously proposed modifications selected by a user, the previously proposed modifications being conflicting modifications, the second GUI area comprising user interface elements to allow for a selection of only one of the conflicting modifications, the previously proposed modifications being spatially positioned to visually indicate that a conflict exists between first and second previously proposed modifications to the knowledge entity, and the second modification corresponds to either the first or the second previously proposed modification selected by the user with assistance of the user-adjustable decision criteria.