Patent ID: 8601049

Claim:
A system for providing centralized management and distribution of information, comprising: a central data processing apparatus that maintains a set of information for an organization and access rights to the information, divides the set of information into a plurality of subsets of information based on relevance to a plurality of users collectively having a plurality of access right levels and a plurality of areas of responsibility in the organization, each user individually having at least one of the plurality of access right levels and at least one of the plurality of areas of responsibility in the organization, with the relevance of the plurality of subsets of information and the access rights for each of the plurality of users corresponding to the level and area of responsibility of that user in the organization, and automatically transmits the plurality of subsets of information periodically over a network to an external user device regardless whether the information has changed since the last transmission, the external user device configured to receive, store the information locally to the external device, and present the subset of information to the user, the subset of information associated with a corresponding user based on the relevance of the information to the user and the access right of the user.