Patent ID: 8819564

Claim:
A system for distributed discussion collaboration over a network, comprising: a computing device; an aggregator, implemented on the computing device, and configured to aggregate a plurality of discussion items submitted by one or more collaborators during an event over the network and associated with a discussion item revoker configured not to permit the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period; a view controller associated with the one or more collaborators and configured to provide the aggregated discussion items for display on a viewing device with respective voting information and customized to each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization and the respective display for at least one of the one or more collaborators is different from another and wherein the respective voting information includes presentation on the viewing device of at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator; a voting module configured to receive the voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for the aggregated discussion items based on a voting configuration, to assign a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and to assign different weights to the voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the voting module is further configured to generate the voting configuration based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators; an ordering module configured to analyze the voting information and create an order for the aggregated discussion items based on analyzed voting information, the ordering module further configured to exclude from the aggregated discussion items those aggregated discussion items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold; and a moderator interface configured to enable a moderator to manage the aggregator, the ordering module, the voting module and the view controller.