Patent ID: 8886713

Claim:
A system to provide an information item to a user, comprising: an information handling system (IHS) coupled to a network; an information database and a task database coupled to the IHS; and a computer-readable medium located in the IHS, the computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the IHS, cause the IHS to: provide, to a first user through a first user IHS, a first task information update that is associated with the first user; provide, to a second user through a second user IHS, a second task information update that is associated with the second user; receive an information item through the network from each of a plurality of information providers and store the information items in the information database, wherein the information items include a first information item that is associated with at least one first information item detail; receive task data and store the task data in the task database, wherein the task data includes: a plurality of tasks that are each associated with a different sales opportunity; at least one attribute that is associated with each of the plurality of tasks and that includes at least one of a name of a company involved in the sales opportunity, a person in a company who may facilitate the sales opportunity, an industry operated in by a company for which the sales opportunity exists, a size of a company for which the sales opportunity exists, and a product sold by a company for which the sales opportunity exists; a first task that is one of the plurality of tasks and that is associated with the first user; and a second task that is one of the plurality of tasks and that is associated with the second user; retrieve the first information item from the information database; retrieve the task data from the task database; transform the first task information update into a third task information update by associating the first information item with the first task in response to determining that the at least one first information item detail associated with the first information item matches the at least one attribute associated with the first task; transform the second task information update into a fourth task information update by associating the first information item with the second task in response to determining that the at least one first information item detail associated with the first information item matches the at least one attribute associated with the second task; provide, to the first user through the first user IHS, the third task information update that is associated with the first user in response to determining that the first user is associated with the first task; and provide, to the second user through the second user IHS, the fourth task information update that is associated with the second user in response to determining that the second user is associated with the second task.