Patent ID: 8819070

Claim:
An apparatus for organizing information, the apparatus comprising: a data store comprising a plurality of interconnected items of information, each item of information associated with at least one item of meta-information, wherein the items of information form a taxonomy, with root entries in the taxonomy comprising action verbs and lower level entries in the taxonomy comprising descriptors or nouns associated with higher level entries in the taxonomy; a receiver interface, the receiver interface for receiving at least one item of information associated with at least one item of meta-information and adding the received item of information to the data store; a transmitter interface, the transmitter interface for traversing items of meta-information and providing associated items of information to a receiver external to the data store; a republisher, the republisher for copying at least part of a source item of information in the data store to a target item of information in the data store upon the addition of the source item of information to the data store, and for transforming at least one of the format, the content, and the structure of the information in the course of copying the information; and a user interface, the user interface for facilitating filtering the interconnected items of information in the data store based on a desired action of a user with respect to the descriptors or nouns of the lower level entries, the action comprising one of the action verbs, wherein the data store further processes the received item of information to identify an associated one of the interconnected items of information existing in the data store, and provides the associated interconnected item to a receiver external to the data store, and wherein at least one of the items of information is associated with at least one permission restricting whether the item of information may be transmitted from the data store to an external receiver.