Patent ID: 8434008

Claim:
A method of integrating heterogeneous fragments of information from at least two collaboration channels, the method comprising: adapting a new fragment to an interface common to the collaboration channels, wherein the new fragment corresponds to a first collaboration channel of the at least two collaboration channels; obtaining, via the common interface, additional information about the new fragment; finding a previously stored fragment related to the new fragment using the additional information, wherein the previously stored segment corresponds to a second collaboration channel of the at least two collaboration channels and the new fragment and the previously stored fragment are the heterogeneous fragments of information, wherein said finding further comprises: obtaining a previously stored fragment; evaluating a similarity between the stored fragment and the new fragment using the additional information; and marking, if the similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold, the stored fragment as being related to the new fragment; creating a link between the related fragment and the new fragment; and storing the new fragment in a repository.