Patent ID: 8510177

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for facilitating interaction between users, the method comprising, by a processor of a server computing device: receiving a first query for information from a user computing device, the information relating to at least one of a product and a service; transmitting the first query to a plurality of information sources: receiving the information from the plurality of information sources in response to the first query; parsing the information into a plurality of topics, each of the topics representing a category of metadata relating to the information; generating a matrix display that organizes the received information into the plurality of topics for presentation at the user computing device; providing access to the matrix display to a plurality of user computing devices; determining whether updated information is available by transmitting a second query to the plurality of information sources at a predetermined time; receiving the updated information from at least one of the plurality of information sources in response to the second query; updating the matrix display to include the updated information from at least one of the plurality of information sources; and presenting an indicator that updated information has been received at the user computing device.