Patent ID: 7398267

Claim:
A computer-implemented virtual room for communicating information about a specific topic, the virtual room comprising: computer software configured to utilize an identification code to identify the address of the virtual room, the identification code including a telephonic prefix and a telephonic subscriber number, the telephonic subscriber number corresponding to a subject category in a bibliographic classification convention; a computer-implemented web site to enable communication between users of the virtual room, and to receive and publish information relating to the specific topic; and a computer-implemented data repository to store information relating to the specific topic including communication between users of the virtual room, the data repository being organised according to learning objects; where the software is configured such that users search an index of the bibliographic classification convention to locate a virtual room related to a specific topic, and users search an index of the telephonic prefix, the concatenation of a selected telephonic prefix and a selected bibliographic classification convention providing an address for interlinking the virtual room to an associated virtual room.