Patent Document ID: 6141658
Application ID: 08926870

Base Claim:
1. A computer system for managing product knowledge related to products offered for sale by a selling entity, comprising: a memory arrangement; at least one processing unit coupled to the memory arrangement; means for defining a data model that describes relationships between data categories; means for inputting one or more data instance item corresponding to one or more of the data categories, the data instance item representing at least part of the product knowledge; means for creating one or more user-defined relationship items for the data instance item; and means for presenting the product knowledge, including information corresponding to the data instance item, to a user of the system in a manner established by the data model and the user-defined relationship; wherein the data model is constructed from one or more data instance items interconnected using the user-defined relationship items for each data instance item.

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Claim 11:
11. A computer system, according to claim 1, further comprising means for presenting differentiated portions of the product knowledge to each of a plurality of users of the system in a manner established by the data model and the user-defined relationship.