Patent ID: 8290965

Claim:
A method for process-wide analysis and distribution of control events discovered from at least one of electronically published documents and electronic data, comprising: populating a user group database with a plurality of users in a group associated with at least one of a product manufacturing, review, distribution, transport and inspection process; populating a user interest database with at least one of geographic and subject matter identifiers associated with interests of at least one user of electronically published documents and electronic data in the group; accessing the at least one of electronically published documents and electronic data stored on a plurality of network servers; operating a control program on a computer to identify at least one of the electronically published documents and electronic data stored in the plurality of network servers which potentially contain control events, wherein the control program identifies at least one of the electronically published documents and the electronic data which potentially contain control events by reference to the user interest database; storing a copy of the at least one of identified electronically published documents and electronic data potentially containing control events in a local storage device accessible by a classification program operating on the computer; providing a control event database of classified control events associated with the control of at least one of goods and services; operating the classification program to determine whether control events are present in the stored documents potentially containing control events, wherein the classification program determines whether at least one discovered control event is present by reference to the control event database; assigning at least one control event classification to the stored documents determined to contain the at least one discovered control event; storing the assigned control event classification and information identifying the stored electronically published document or electronic data containing the at least one discovered control event in a classification database; displaying at least one of the electronically published documents and electronic data containing the control event to the at least one user, wherein the display is created by reference to the user interest database and the stored assigned control event classification, and the display includes at least one link to at least one of the stored control event classification and the at least one of it electronically published document and electronic data; receiving the at least one user's designation of at least one control event as an alert of potential interest to at least one other member of the group; and forwarding a notification of the alert to the at least one other member of the group.