Patent ID: 6954761

Claim:
An enterprise information filtering system comprising: an organization definition information storage unit that stores organization definition information, which includes information regarding layers of a multi-layered structure of an enterprise, including names of the layers, positions of the layers with respect to other layers and names of persons assigned to the layers and additional information regarding the persons, including management responsibilities; a contents storage unit for storing information regarding the performance of the enterprise that is to be filtered by the enterprise information filtering system; filter definition information generating means for: identifying a type of information requested by a user of the enterprise information filtering system; correlating the type of information requested by a user of the enterprise information filtering system with a type of organization definition information stored in the organization definition information storage unit; and combining the type of information requested by a user of the enterprise information filtering system and the correlated type of organization definition information to create a filtering condition to be used by the enterprise information filtering system; a filter definition information storage unit for storing the filtering condition; and filtering means for utilizing the filtering condition and the organization definition information stored in the organization definition information storage unit to build a filter and using the filter to retrieve from information stored in the contents storage unit information pertaining to the request by the user of the enterprise information filtering system and regarding only the user and persons directly and indirectly managed by the user.