Patent Document ID: 8380743
Application ID: 12940939

Base Claim:
1. A system for supporting targeted sharing and early curation of information, comprising: a content module to identify a personal digital data item selection by a user within a personal information management client and data set that is unique to the user; a recommendation module to recommend from a shared information repository separate from the personal information management client, shared documents that are similar to the digital data item from the personal information management client and dataset, comprising: a criteria module to select recommendation criteria, to compare the personal digital data item from the personal information management client and dataset with a set of shared documents from the separate shared information repository, and to apply the recommendation criteria to the comparison of the personal digital data item and the set of documents; and a satisfaction module to identify one or more of the shared documents from the shared information repository that satisfy the recommendation criteria as the similar shared documents; a display module to display the similar shared documents visually proximate to the personal digital data item in the personal information client; an incorporation module to receive a selection of one of the similar shared documents and to incorporate the personal digital data item into the selected similar shared document in the shared information repository.

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Claim 3:
3. A system according to claim 1 , further comprising: a similarity module to determine similarity measures for each of the personal digital data item and the one or more shared documents and to compare the similarity measures of the personal digital data item and the one or more shared documents, wherein the satisfaction module further identifies the one or more shared documents above a threshold as satisfying the recommendation criteria.