Patent ID: 8112433

Claim:
A system for providing for data in organizational communications, the system comprising: an information processing apparatus including a computer system; a communications mechanism operating with the information processing apparatus for providing communications to a user of the information processing apparatus, wherein an administrator of the information processing apparatus sets a control parameter for the user, the control parameter indicating a rate of absorption of the communications by the user of the information processing system; a database operating in conjunction with the information processing apparatus and the communications mechanism, the database for storing data; and a mechanism for collecting the data from the user in response to the communications related to the user by the communications mechanism, wherein the data comprises feedback about communications received by the user via the communications mechanism, and the data is stored as a resonant quote that includes a value, a volume of voters that represents an amount of feedback, and security data that includes authorization information regarding querying access to the resonant quote, the mechanism further allowing the user of the information processing apparatus to organize the data into categories, and allowing the users of the information processing apparatus to use the information processing system to perform functions on the data in the data file, wherein the functions performed on the data are selected from the group consisting of displaying statistics to the users about the data, creating new data, deleting some of the data, providing the users with parameters and charts associated with the data, updating parameters associated with the data, and voting on the data.