Patent ID: 7260561

Claim:
A system for facilitating user thinking about an arbitrary problem with interfacing with at least one of an external resource, computer system or device, comprising: One or more processors; at least one of a memory or computer readable medium, or both, having computer readable instructions, comprising; First logic to facilitate user specification of the problem to populate a problem statement structure; Second logic to facilitate user specification of a conclusion, related to the problem specification, to populate a conclusion statement structure; Third logic 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 logic to persuade user interaction with the first, second and third logic 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 logic to display, logic to store and logic to output at least a subset of the resulting user structure, or any combination thereof; and Interface logic to accomplish a transmittal to or receive and process a transmittal from at least one of an external resource, computer system or device, or any combination thereof.