Patent Document ID: 20150261758
Application ID: 14658062
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of identifying information of interest within an organization, the method comprising: determining use data that characterizes relationships among information items within an organization, wherein the information items within the organization include user data and collections of information items, wherein the organization includes a structured body of users with associated roles within the organization and who have access to the information items within the organization, and wherein each of the information items within the organization includes one or more properties from a group of properties; receiving an indication of a first group of one or more of the information items within the organization; for each of a plurality of properties of the group of properties, determining whether the property is a useful property at least in part by, determining whether the property applies to at least one of the information items of the first group of one or more of the information items within the organization, and determining whether the property applies to less than all of the information items of the first group of one or more of the information items within the organization; for each of one or more of the determined useful properties, displaying an indication of the determined useful property; receiving, from a first user, a selection of one or more useful properties; based at least in part on the received selection, identifying information items of the first group of one or more of the information items within the organization that apply to the selected one or more useful properties; and displaying an indication of one or more of the identified information items of the first group of one or more of the information items within the organization that apply to the selected one or more useful properties.