Patent ID: 7676507

Claim:
A method for managing information resources in a computer system for the purpose of resource retrieval, said resources including a first resource to be retrieved and a second resource obtained independently from said first resource and having a potential relevance relationship with other resources based on a relevance scoring process, the method comprising: a) receiving user information from a user input device, said user information being representative of a declaration that said first resource is associated with said second resource for the purpose of being later retrieved, and storing information relative to this declaration; b) when selecting said second resource by a user input device: b1) based on said stored information, further displaying an indicator of the existence of said first resource, c) when selecting an other resource: c1) determining whether said other resource is relevant with respect to said second resource, c2) if step c1) has determined a relevance between said other resource and said second resource, based on said stored information, further displaying an indicator of the existence of said first resource, d) retrieving said first resource utilizing said indicator displayed when selecting said second resource or said other resource, wherein said first resource is retrievable although it initially had no connection with the second resource.