Patent ID: 7395316

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of mining human capital information for creating a target group, the method comprising: receiving user input specifying criteria of association with a dynamic target group to be created, by defining one or more attributes of a communication group; searching, in response to the input, implicit information that is obtained through inference, but that is not directly extracted from prespecified fields, explicitly defined attributes or tagged elements of an information content, and that does not directly state interest, expertise or responsibility of an individual regarding a subject, to determine if information therein matches the defined one or more attributes; if a match is determined, using the information to identify individuals to be associated with the dynamic target group; communicating with the identified individuals using a communication directed to the dynamic target group, wherein the communicating includes sending to the identified individuals of the dynamic target group an information request based on at least one of a survey and a questionnaire, and wherein communicating includes sending to the identified individuals of the dynamic target group at least one of structured communication wherein possible responses to queries are predefined and unstructured communication wherein possible responses to queries are not predefined; logging at least some of the communications; and analyzing the logged communications.