Patent ID: 7246128

Claim:
A computer program tangibly stored on a computer-readable medium and configured to cause a computer to enable a user interface for encoding a graphical representation of an individual point of view (iPOV), the computer program comprising instructions to: receive input from a user defining the graphical representation including at least one category; retrieve unique identifiers for the at least one category from at least one of a knowledge database; obtain significance and interest relations for the at least one category based on a placement of the at least one category on the graphical representation; determine connections between the at least one category and data source to identify data sources having similar unique identifiers; retrieve data sets from the data sources for the at least one category, the data sets being limited by the significance and interest relations; apply a similarity analysis to the data sets to; determine confidence levels for the at least one category, wherein the similarity analysis depends on a datatype of the data source and on the interest relations for the at least one category; apply the significance relations for the at least one category to the confidence levels to obtain relevance scores for items in the data sets; present, for items having a relevance score above a threshold, the relevance scores, confidence levels and items to the user in the context of the iPOV.