Patent ID: 8140574

Claim:
A method for performing a search for information in at least one content repository, the method comprising: creating at a computer, by a first user a search scope defining one or more content repositories to be searched; assigning by the first user a community of members to the search scope, the first user being one of the members of the community; displaying the search scope to a second user who is a member of the community, an association of content repositories defined for the search scope being different from an association of content repositories defined for one or more other search scopes; selecting the displayed search scope; generating a search request for information relevant to the second user; for each of the content repositories associated with the selected search scope, searching the content repository for information relevant to the second user in response to the second user being a member of a content repository membership of the content repository, wherein each of the content repositories associated with the selected search scope has one and only one content repository membership, wherein each content repository membership corresponds to one and only one content repository; and presenting information found in response to the search request in the searched content repositories to the second user.