Patent ID: 7844616

Claim:
A method for discovering relevant information in a dynamic information system (DIS), the method comprising: employing at least one computing device for: tracking information entered by a user of the DIS; determining for the user, based on the information entered by the user, an initial appropriate context within which to search for relevant information; searching for relevant information by: comparing, within the initial appropriate context, the information entered by the user to information in a network; and determining whether the network contains information relevant to the information entered by the user; in the case that it is determined that the network contains information relevant to the information entered by the user: displaying to the user an object containing the relevant information; seeking permission from an owner of the object to release his/her identity to the user; and in the case that permission from the owner is granted, displaying to the user the identity of the owner of the object; comparing a change to the DIS made by the user with at least one of the following: a predefined rule or preexisting DIS data; determining whether the user's change complies with at least one of the following: the predefined rule or the preexisting DIS data: in the case that the user's change does not comply with the predefined rule, performing one of the following: amending the predefined rule to comport with the user's change or notifying the user that the user's change does not comply with the predefined rule: and in the case that the user's change does not comply with the preexisting DIS data, performing one of the following: amending the preexisting DIS data to comport with the user's change or notifying the user that the user's change does not comply with the preexisting DIS data.