Patent ID: 7680810

Claim:
A system that facilitates creating live summaries of selected content across one or more disparate sources of data comprising: a processor, coupled to memory, that executes: an input component that receives at least one user-selected portion of at least one source document, the input component obtains content from the at least one source document associated with the at least one user-selected portion, wherein a user-selected portion comprises an identified region of the content from a source document, the identified region is selected to be monitored and displayed on a summary page; a mapping component that maps the at least one user-selected portion to at least one region in a physical structure of the source document to facilitate identifying content to monitor, wherein the physical structure of the source document is resolved by the mapping component to identify and to tag a match for the identified region corresponding to the source document; a display component that provides the summary page, the summary page includes the obtained content from the at least one source document associated with the at least one user-selected portion, wherein the obtained content for the user-selected portion is determined by the identified region; an update component that monitors and analyzes the at least one user-selected portion of the at least one source document to determine whether content from the at least one source document is different from corresponding content from the summary page associated with the at least one user-selected portion, the source content and summary page content are associated with a same user-selected portion, the update component updates the summary page to include the content from the at least one source document when the content from the at least one source document is updated and when it is different from the source content, extracting an updated content from the at least one source document, wherein when the updated content is found on the source document, the updated content is determined by the identified region and fed to the summary page; the update component that determines the source content is different from the summary content when a threshold is satisfied, wherein the threshold comprises a minimum character difference; and a data feed component that communicates the content in accordance with the user-selected portions of content to the summary page from a respective source document.