Patent ID: 7685085

Claim:
A system for facilitating user thinking about an arbitrary problem with interfacing with at least one of an additional resource, computer system or device, comprising: one or more computer readable media having processor executable instructions for implementing said system, said instructions comprising: instructions to facilitate user specification of the problem to populate a problem statement structure; instructions to facilitate user specification of a conclusion, related to the problem specification, to populate a conclusion statement structure; instructions to facilitate user specification of knowledge, related to at least one of the problem specification and the conclusion specification, to populate a knowledge structure; Control instructions to persuade user interaction with the facilitation instructions to a sequence of interactions within a predefined set of interaction sequences, wherein the predefined set of interactions define an archetype process for user thinking about the problem; At least one of instructions to display, instructions to store and instructions to output, at least a subset of the resulting user structure including a linkage view of a knowledge construct for a user selected component of the structure, shown as the component in the center of the representation; and Interface instructions to generate at least one transmittal to or receive at least one transmittal from at least one of an additional resource, computer system or device.