Patent ID: 7657585

Claim:
A system for identifying and delivering documents of interest for business analysis, comprising: a cluster computer system that stores unstructured content, including documents of interest, said unstructured content comprising web documents and metadata, said cluster computer system being configured to: analyze, over a first segment of time, said unstructured content in accordance with a first user's query to identify web documents and metadata of interest; and store said metadata of interest, wherein said metadata comprises explicit metadata and derived metadata, said explicit metadata comprising data that is expressly defined by said unstructured content, and said derived metadata comprising data that is derived by analyzing said unstructured content; an analysis engine operatively connected to said cluster computer system, said analysis engine deriving said derived metadata as annotation of said unstructured content in response to said first user's query; a gateway computer system interposed between said cluster computer system and an appliance computer system, said gateway computer system being configured to: forward said first user's query to said cluster computer system from said appliance computer system; retrieve said web documents and said metadata of interest from said cluster computer system in response to said first user's query at a conclusion of said first period of time; and send said retrieved web documents and said retrieved metadata of interest to said appliance computer system, wherein said web documents and said metadata are time stamped according to a time of storage by said cluster computer system; and said appliance computer system logically interconnected to said gateway computer system, said appliance computer system being configured to: display said retrieved metadata; store said retrieved web documents and said retrieved metadata of interest identified by said first user's query; and build, by a user, a second user's query based on said displayed web documents and metadata of interest, said second user's query being associated with a second sequential segment of time, wherein said web documents and said metadata of interest identified by said first user's query are available on demand to said user at said conclusion of said first segment of time for conducting business analysis by said appliance computer system.