Patent Document

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/280,700, entitled System and Method For Creating And Manipulating Information Containers with Dynamic Registers, filed on Nov. 14. 2005 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,702,682, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, and which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/284,113 filed on Apr. 7, 1999 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,010,536, and which claims the benefit of PCT/US99/01988 filed Jan. 28, 1999 and of U.S. Patent Application No. 60/073,209, filed Jan. 30, 1998. 
    
    
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates generally to computer systems in a multi-user mainframe or mini computer system, a client server network, or in local, wide area or public networks, and in particular, to computer networks for creating and manipulating information containers with dynamic interactive registers in a computer, media or publishing network, in order to manufacture information on, upgrade the utility of, and develop intelligence in, a computer network by offering the means to create and manipulate information containers with dynamic registers. 
     2. Description of the Related Art 
     In the present day, querying and usage of information resources on a computer network is accomplished by individuals directing a search effort by submitting key words or phrases to be compared to those key words or phrases contained in the content or description of that information resource, with indices and contents residing in a fixed location unchanging except by human input. Similarly, the class of storage medium upon which information resides, it class and subclass organizational structures, and its routes of access all remain fundamentally unaltered by ongoing user queries and usage. Only the direct and intended intervention of the owner of the information content or computer hosting site changes these parameters, normally accomplished manually by programmers or systems operators at their own discretion or the discretion of the site owner. 
     There exists currently in the art a limited means of interfacing a computer user with the information available on computer networks such as the world wide web. Primarily, these means are search engines. Search engines query thousands or tens of thousands of index pages per second to suggest the location of information while the user waits. While factual information can be accessed, the more complex, particular or subtle the inquiry, the more branches and sub-branches need to be explored in a time consuming fashion in order to have any chance of success. Further, there are no such automatic devices that reconstruct the information into more useful groupings or makes it more accessible according to factors attached to the content by the content creator such as the space or time relevancy of its content, or factors attached to the content by the system&#39;s compilation and analysis of the accumulated biography of that specific content&#39;s readership. 
     The utility of wide area and public computer networks is thus greatly limited by the static information model and infrastructure upon which those networks operate. 
     One problem is that on a wide area or public network, specific content such as a document remains inert, except by the direct intervention of users, and is modified neither by patterns or history of usage on the network, or the existence of other content on the network. 
     Another problem is that content does not reside in an information infrastructure conducive to reconstruction by expert rule-based, fuzzy logic, or artificial intelligence based systems. Neither the intelligence of other information users nor the expert intelligence of an observant network computer system can be utilized in constructing, or re-constructing information resources. Where content resides in a fixed location and structure, “information” becomes something defined by the mind of the information provider rather than the mind of the information user, where the actual construction and utility of information exists. Information remains, like raw ore, in an unrefined state. 
     Another problem is that the class of storage medium upon which data resides cannot be system or user managed and altered according to the actual recorded and analyzed hierarchically graded usage of any given information resource residing on that storage medium except by statistical analysis of universal, undefined “hits” or visits to that page or site. 
     Another problem is that information resource groupings remain fixed on the given storage medium location according to the original installation by the resource author, not altered according to the actual recorded and analyzed hierarchically graded usage of that given information resource. Content itself remains inert, with no possibility of evolution. 
     A further problem with the prior art is that neither the search templates generated by those more knowledgeable in a given field of inquiry, nor the search strategies historically determined to be successful, or system-constructed according to analyses of search strategies historically determined to be successful, are available to inquiring users. A search template is here defined as one or more text phrases, graphics, video or audio bits, alone or in any defined outline or relational format designed to accomplish an inquiry. Internet or wide area network search may return dozens of briefs to a keyword or key phrase inquiry sometimes requiring the time-consuming examination of multiple information resources or locations, with no historical relation to the success of any given search strategy. 
     A further problem is that there is limited means to add to, subtract from, or alter the information content of documents, databases, or sites without communicating with the owners or operators of those information resources, e.g., contacting, obtaining permission, negotiating and manually altering, adding or subtracting content. Additionally, once so altered, there is not a means to derive a proportionate value, and thereby a proportionate royalty as the information is used. 
     A final problem is that the physical residence of a body of data or its cyberspace location may not serve its largest body of users in the most expedient manner of access. Neither the expert intelligence of other information users nor the expert intelligence of an observant computer system is presently utilized by inherent network intelligence to analyze, re-design and construct access routes to information medium except by statistical analysis of universal, undefined “hits” or visits to that page or site. 
     Therefore, there is a need for a system and methods for creating and manipulating information containers with dynamic interactive registers defining more comprehensive information about contained content in a computer, media or publishing network, in order to manufacture information on, upgrade the utility of, and develop intelligence in, a computer network by providing a searching user the means to utilize the searches of other users or the historically determined and compiled searches of the system, a means to containerize information with multiple registers governing the interaction of that container, a means to re-classify the storage medium and location of information resources resident on the network, a means to allow the reconstruction of content into more useful formations, and a means to reconstruct the access routes to that information. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention is a system and methods for manufacturing information on, upgrading the utility of, and developing intelligence in, a computer or digital network, local, wide area, public, corporate, or digital-based, supported, or enhanced physical media form or public or published media, or other by offering the means to create and manipulate information containers with dynamic registers. 
     The system of the present invention comprises an input device, an output device, a processor, a memory unit, a data storage device, and a means of communicating with other computers, network of computers, or digital-based, supported or enhanced physical media forms or public or published media. These components are preferably coupled by a bus and configured for multi-media presentation, but may also be distributed throughout a network according to the requirements of highest and best use. 
     The memory unit advantageously includes an information container made interactive with dynamic registers, a container editor, a search interface, a search engine, a search engine editor, system-wide hierarchical container gateways interacting with dynamic container registers, a gateway editor, a register editor, a data collection means with editor, a data reporting means with editor, an analysis engine with editor, an executing engine with editor, databases, and a means of communicating with other computers as above. These components may reside in a distributed fashion in any configuration on multiple computer systems or networks. 
     The present invention advantageously provides a container editor for creating containers, containerizing storing information in containers and defining and altering container registers. A container is an interactive nestable logical domain configurable as both subset and superset, including a minimum set of attributes coded into dynamic interactive evolving registers, containing any information component, digital code, file, search string, set, database, network, event or process, and maintaining a unique network-wide lifelong identity. 
     The container editor allows the authoring user to create containers and encapsulate any information component in a container with registers, establishing a unique network lifelong identity, characteristics, and parameters and rules of interaction. The authoring user defines and sets the register with a starting counter and/or mathematical description by utilizing menus and simple graphing tools or other tools appropriate to that particular register. The registers determine the interaction of that container with other containers, system components, system gateways, events and processes on the computer network. 
     Containers and registers, upon creation, may be universal or class-specific. The editor provides the means to create system-defined registers as well as the means to create other registers. The editor enables the register values to be set by the user or by the system, in which case the register value may be fixed or alterable by the user upon creation. Register values are evolving or non-evolving for the duration of the life of the container on the system. Evolving registers may change through time, space, interaction, system history and other means. 
     System-defined registers comprise: (1) an historical container register, logging the history of the interaction of that container with other containers, events and processes on the network, (2) an historical system register, logging the history of pertinent critical and processes on the network, (3) a point register accumulating points based upon a hierarchically rated history of usage, (4) an identity register maintaining a unique network wide identification and access location for a given container, (5) a brokerage register maintaining a record of ownership percentage and economic values, and others. 
     The present invention also includes user-defined registers. User defined registers may be created wholly by the user and assigned a starting value, or simply assigned value by the user when that register is pre-existent in the system or acquired from another user, and then appended to any information container, or detached from any container. 
     Exemplary user-defined registers comprise (1) a report register, setting trigger levels for report sequences, content determination and delivery target, (2) a triple time register, consisting of a range, map, graph, list, curve or other representation designating time relevance, actively, assigning the time characteristics by which that container will act upon another container or process, passively, assigning the time characteristics by which that container be acted upon by another container or process, and neutrally, assigning the time characteristics by which that container will interact with another container or process, (3) a triple space register, consisting of a range, map, graph, list, curve or other representation designating the domain and determinants of space relevance, actively, assigning the space characteristics by which that content will act upon another container or process, passively, assigning the space, characteristics by which that content will be acted upon by another container or process, and neutrally, assigning the space characteristics by which that container will interact with another container or process, (4) a domain of influence register, determining the set, class and range of containers upon which that container will act, (5) a domain of receptivity register, determining the set, class and range of containers allowed to act upon that container, (6) a domain of neutrality register, determining the set, class and range of containers with which that container will interact, (7) a domain of containment register, determining the set, class and range of containers which that container may logically encompass, (8) a domain of inclusion register, determining the set, class and range of containers by which that container might be encompassed, (9) an ownership register, recording the original ownership of that containers, (10) a proportionate ownership register, determining the proportionate ownership of that containers, (11) a creator profile register, describing the creator or creators of that container, (12) an ownership address register, maintaining the address of the creator or creators of that container, (13) a value register, assigning a monetary or credit value to that container, and (14) other registers created by users or the system. 
     Containers are nestable and configurable as both subset and superset and may be designated hierarchically according to inclusive range, such as image component, image, image file, image collection, image database, or if text, text fragment, sentence, paragraph, page, document, document collection, document, database, document library, or any arrangement wherein containers are defined as increasingly inclusive sets of sets of digital components. 
     The present invention also includes, structurally integrated into each container, or strategically placed within a network at container transit points, unique gateways, nestable in a hierarchical or set and class network scheme. Gateways gather and store container register information according to system-defined, system-generated, or user determined rules as containers exit and enter one another, governing how containers system processes or system components interact within the domain of that container, or after exiting and entering that container, and governing how containers, system components and system processes interact with that unique gateway, including how data collection and reporting is managed at that gateway. The gateways record the register information of internally nested sub and superset containers, transient containers and search templates, including the grade of access requested, and, acting as an agent of an analysis engine and execution engine, govern the traffic and interaction of those containers and searches with the information resource of which they are the gateway and other gateways. The gateways&#39; record of internally nested and transient container registers, and its own interaction with those containers, is made available, according to a rules-based determination, to the process of the analysis engine by the data collection and/or data reporting means. 
     The present invention also includes a means of data storage at any given gateway. 
     The present invention also includes a data collection means, residing anywhere on the network, or located at one or more hierarchical levels of nestable container gateways for gathering information from other gateways and analysis engines according to system, system-generated or user determined rules. The data collection means manages the gathering of data regarding network-wide user choices, usage and information about information, by collecting it from container and gateway registers as those containers and gateways pass through one another. Such statistics as frequency, pattern, and range of time, space and logical class is collected as directed by the analysis engine, and made that data available to the analysis engine by advancing it directly to the analysis engine, or incrementally, to the next greater hierarchically inclusive collection level. The rules of data collection may be manually set or altered by the system manager, or set by the system and altered by the system in its evolutionary capacity. 
     The present invention also includes a data reporting means, located at one or more hierarchical levels of nestable container gateways for submitting information to other gateways and analysis engines according to system, system-generated or user determined rules. The data reporting means manages the sending of data from the registers, gateways and search templates in a frequency, pattern, and range of time, space and logical class as directed by the analysis engine, and makes that data available to the analysis engine by advancing it directly to the analysis engine, or incrementally to the next greater hierarchically inclusive reporting level. The rules of data collection may be manually set or altered by the system manager, or set by the system and altered by the system in its evolutionary capacity. The data reporting means may be established to work in concert, in redundancy, or in contiguous or interwoven threads of hierarchically nested containers. 
     The present invention also includes an analysis engine that receives, reports and collects information regarding the interaction of user searches with gateways and container registers, as well as container registers with other container registers, and container registers with gateways. The analysis engine analyzes the information submitted by the gateways and instructs the execution engine to create new information containers, content assemblages, storage schemes, access routes, search templates, and gateway instructions. The analysis engine includes an editor that provides a system manager with a means of editing the operating principles of that engine, governing data reporting, data collection, search template loading, gateway instructions, and other. 
     The present invention also includes an execution engine, fulfilling the instructions of the analysis engine, to create new information containers, content sun and superset assemblages, storage schemes, access routes, search templates, and gateway instructions. The execution engine includes an editor that provides a system manager with a means of editing the operating principles of that engine, governing data reporting, data collection, search template loading, gateway instructions, and other. 
     The present invention also includes a search interface or browser. The search interface provides a means for a searching user to submit, record and access search streams or phrases generated historically by himself, other users, or the system. Search streams or phrases of other users are those that have been historically determined by the system to have the highest probability of utility to the searching user. Search streams or phrases generated by the system are those that have been constructed by the system through the analysis engine based upon the same criteria. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a block diagram of a first and preferred embodiment of a system constructed according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 2A  is block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the memory unit. 
         FIG. 2B  is an exemplary embodiment of a computer network showing computer servers, personal computers, workstations, Internet, Wide Area Networks, Intranets in relationship with containers and gateways. 
         FIG. 2B 1 is an exemplary embodiment of a computer network showing computer servers, personal computers, workstations, Internet, Wide Area Networks, Intranets in relationship with containers and gateways and exemplary locations of gateway storage in proximity to one or more of the various sites. 
         FIGS. 2C through 2H  are exemplary embodiments in block diagram form of computer network components showing a possible placement of nested containers, computer servers, gateways, and the software components named in  FIG. 2A  on a network. 
         FIG. 3A  is a graphical representation for one embodiment of a container having a plurality of containers nested within that container. 
         FIG. 3B  is a graphical representation for a second embodiment of a container having a plurality of containers nested within that container. 
         FIG. 3C  is a drawing showing elements that might be logically encapsulated by a container. 
         FIG. 4  is a drawing of an information container showing a gateway and registers logically encapsulating containerized elements. 
         FIG. 5  is a flowchart showing a preferred method for the containerization process and container editor operating on the communication device. 
         FIG. 6  is a flowchart showing a preferred method for searching for containers within a node. 
         FIG. 7  is a flowchart further showing a preferred method for searching for containers over one or more gateways. 
         FIG. 8  is a flowchart showing a method for performing the data collection and reporting on containers. 
         FIG. 9  is a flowchart showing the operation of the analysis engine. 
         FIG. 10  is a flowchart showing the operation of the execution engine. 
         FIG. 11  is a flowchart showing the operation of the gateway editor. 
         FIG. 12  is a flowchart showing the operation of the gateway process. 
         FIG. 13A  is a drawing showing an example of nested containers, gateways, registers, analysis engines and an execution engine prior to container reconstruction as depicted in  13 B,  13 C and  13 D. 
         FIG. 13B  is a drawing showing the reconstructed nested containers of  FIG. 13A . 
         FIG. 13C  is a drawing showing further reconstruction of nested containers, with a container relocated to reside within another container. 
         FIG. 13D  is a drawing showing a flowchart of the reconstruction process 
         FIG. 14  is a drawing showing the screen interface of the container editor. 
         FIG. 15  is a drawing showing the screen interface of the gateway editor. 
         FIG. 16  is a drawing showing the screen interface of the search interface. 
         FIG. 17  is a drawing of a generic application program showing a drop-down menu link, and a button link to the containerization process or container editor. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
     The System 
     Referring now to  FIG. 1 , a preferred embodiment of a system  10  for creating and manipulating information containers with dynamic interactive registers in a computer, media, or publishing network  201  in order to manufacture information on, upgrade the utility of, and develop intelligence in that network  201 , is shown. The system  10  preferably comprises an input device  24 , an output device  16 , a processor  18 , a memory unit  22 , a data storage device  20 , and a communication device  26  operating on a network  201 . The input device  24 , an output device  16 , a processor  18 , a memory unit  22 , a data storage device  20 , are preferably coupled together by a bus  12  in a von Neumann architecture. Those skilled in the art will realize that these components  24 ,  16 ,  18 ,  22 ,  20 , and  26  may be coupled together according to various other computer architectures including any physical distribution of components linked together by the communication device  26  without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention, and may be infinitely nested or chained, both as computer systems within a network  202 , and as networks within networks  201 . 
     The output device  16  preferably comprises a computer monitor for displaying high-resolution graphics and speakers for outputting high fidelity audio signals. The output device  16  is used to display various user interfaces  110 ,  125 ,  210 ,  300 ,  510 ,  610 ,  710 , as will be described below, for searching for and containerizing information, and editing the container gateways, containers, container registers, the data reporting means and the data collection means, and the search, analysis and execution engines. The author uses the input device  24  to manipulate icons, text, charts or graphs, or to select objects or text, in the process of packaging, searching or editing in a conventional manner such as in the Macintosh of Windows operating systems. 
     The processor  18  preferably executes programmed instruction steps, generates commands, stores data and analyzes data configurations according to programmed instruction steps that are stored in the memory unit  22  and in the data storage device  20 . The processor  22  is preferably a microprocessor such as the Motorola 680(x)0, the Intel 80(x)86 or Pentium, Pentium II, and successors, or processors made by AMD, or Cyrix CPU of the any class. 
     The memory unit  22  is preferably a predetermined amount of dynamic random access memory, a read-only memory, or both. The memory unit  22  stores data, operating systems, and programmed instructions steps, and manages the operations of all hardware and software components in the system  10  and on the network  201 , utilizing the communication device  26  whenever necessary or expeditious to link multiple computer systems  202  within the network  201 . 
     The data storage device  20  is preferably a disk storage device for storing data and programmed instruction steps. In the exemplary embodiment, the data storage device  20  is a hard disk drive. Historical recordings of network usage are stored on distributed and centralized data storage devices  20 . 
     The preferred embodiment of the input device  24  comprises a keyboard, microphone, and mouse type controller. Data and commands to the system  10  are input through the input device  24 . 
     The present invention also includes a communication device  26 . The communication device  26  underlies and sustains the operations of, referring now also to  FIG. 2  the analysis  400  and execution  500  engines, the data reporting  600  and collection  700  means, the container editor  110 , the search interface  300 , and the search engine  320 , providing the means to search, access, move, copy, utilize or otherwise perform operations with and on data. The communication device  26  utilizes one or more of the following technologies: modem, infrared, microwave, laser, photons, electrons, wave phenomena, cellular carrier, satellite, laser, router hub, direct cabling, physical transport, radio, broadcast or cable TV or other to communicate with other computers, digital-supported television, computer networks, or digital-based or supported public or published media, or physical media forms, on any a local, wide area, public, or any computer-based computer supported, or computer interfaced network, including but not limited to the Internet. It also allows for the functioning and distribution of any container  100  or container component herein described to reside anywhere on any computer system in any configuration on that local, wide area, public, or corporate computer-based or computer related network, or digital-based or supported media form. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 2A , a preferred embodiment of the memory unit  22  is shown. The memory unit includes: an interactive information container  100 , a container editor  110 , container registers  120 , a container register editor  125 , system-wide hierarchical container gateways  200 , gateway storage  205 , gateway editors  210 , engine editors  510 , a search interface  300 , search engine  320 , analysis engine  400 , execution engine  500 , a data reporting module,  600 , a data reporting editor  610 , a data collection module  700 , a data collection editor  710 , screen interfaces (GUI&#39;s)  936 , menu or access buttons from generic computer programs  937 , and databases  900 , all residing in memory optimized between a data storage means  20  such as magnetic, optical, laser, or other fixed storage, and a memory means  22  such as RAM. The memory unit  22  functions by operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26  on multiple computer systems  202  within the network  201 . These components will be described first briefly in the following paragraphs, then in more detail with reference to  FIGS. 3A through 17 . 
     Those skilled in the art will realize that these components might also be stored in contiguous blocks of memory, and that software components or portions thereof may reside in the memory unit  22  or the data storage means  20 . 
     The present invention includes information containers  100  as noted above. The information container  100  is a logically defined data enclosure which encapsulates any element or digital segment (text, graphic, photograph, audio, video, or other), or set of digital segments, or referring now to  FIG. 3C , any system component or process, or other containers or sets of containers. A container  100  at minimum includes in its construction a logically encapsulated portion of cyberspace, a register and a gateway. A container  100  at minimum encapsulates a single digital bit, a single natural number or the logical description of another container, and at maximum all defined cyberspace, existing, growing and to be discovered, including but not limited to all containers, defined and to be defined in cyberspace. A container  100  contains the code to enable it to interact with the components enumerated in  2 A, and to reconstruct itself internally and manage itself on the network  201 . 
     The container  100  also includes container registers  120 . Container registers  120  are interactive dynamic values appended to the logical enclosure of an information container  100 , and serve to govern the interaction of that container  100  with other containers  100 , container gateways  200  and the system  10 , and to record the historical interaction of that container  100  on the system  10 . Container registers  120  may be values alone or contain code to establish certain parameters in interaction with other containers  100  or gateways  200 . 
     The present invention also includes container gateways  200 . Container gateways  200  are logically defined gateways residing both on containers  100  and independently in the system  10 . Gateways  200  govern the interactions of containers  100  within their domain, and alter the registers  120  of transiting containers  100  upon ingress and egress. 
     The present invention also includes container gateway storage  205  to hold the data collected from registers  120  of transient containers  100  in order to make it available to the data collection means  700  and the data reporting means  600 , and to store the rules governing the operations of its particular gateway  200 , governing transiting containers upon ingress and egress, and governing the interactive behavior of containers  100  within the container  100  to which that gateway  200  is attached. Gateway storage  205  may be located on gateways  200  themselves, containers  100  or anywhere on the network  202 ,  201 , including but not limited to Internet, Intranet, LAN, WAN, according to best analysis and use. 
     The memory unit  22  also includes an execution engine  500  to perform the functions on the system  10  as directed by the analysis engine after its analysis of data from the data reporting means  600 , the data collection means  700 , and the search interface  300 . 
     The memory unit  22  also includes a search interface  300 , by which the user enters, selects or edits search phrases or digital strings to be used by the search engine  320  to locate containers  100 . 
     The memory unit  22  also includes an analysis engine  400  which performs rules based or other analysis upon the data collected from the search interface  300  and the data collection  700  and data reporting  600  means. 
     The memory unit  22  also includes a data reporting means  600 , by which means the information collected by gateways  200  from transient containers  100  is sent to the analysis engine  400 . 
     The memory unit  22  also includes a data collection means  700 , by which means the analysis engine  400  gathers the information collected by gateways  200  from transient containers  100 . 
     The memory unit  22  also includes a container editor  110  for creating, selecting, acquiring, modifying and appending registers  120  and gateways  200  to containers  100 , for creating, selecting, acquiring, and modifying containers, and for selecting content  01  to encapsulate. 
     The memory unit  22  also includes a register editor  125 , for creating, selecting, acquiring and modifying container registers  120  and establishing and adjusting the values therein. 
     The memory unit  22  also includes a gateway editor  210 , by which means the user determines the rules governing the interaction of a given gateway  210  with the registers  120  of transient containers  100 , governing transiting containers upon ingress and egress, and governing the interactive behavior of containers within the container to which that gateway is attached. 
     The memory unit  22  also includes databases  900 , by which means the analysis engine  400 , the execution engine  500 , the gateways  100 , the editors  110 ,  125 ,  210 ,  510 ,  610 ,  710 , and the search interface  300 , store information for later use. 
     The memory unit  22  present invention also includes a search engine  320  by which means the user is able to locate containers  100  and, referring now to  FIG. 4 , containerized elements  01 . 
     The memory unit  22  present invention also includes an engine editor  510 , by which means the user establishes the rules and operating procedures for the analysis engine  400  and the execution engine  500 . 
     The memory unit  22  present invention also includes a reporting means editor  610 , by which means the user establishes the rules and schedule under which the information collected by gateways  200  from transient containers  100  will be sent to the analysis engine  400 . 
     The memory unit  22  present invention also includes a collection means editor  710 , by which means the user establishes the rules and schedule under which the analysis engine  400  will gathers the information collected by gateways  200  from transient containers  100 . 
     The memory unit  22  present invention also includes screen interfaces (GUI&#39;s)  936 , specifically designed to simplify and enhance the operations of the container editor  110 , the gateway editor  210 , and the search interface  300 . 
     The present invention also includes a menu or button access  937 , by which a user utilizing any generic computer program may access the system  10  or the container editor  110  from a menu selection(s) or button(s) within that program. 
     The present invention also includes a computer, media or publishing network  201 , comprising computers, digital devices and digital media  202  and a communication device  26 , within which the components enumerated in  FIG. 2  A interact, compiling, analyzing, and altering containers  100  and the network  201  according to information gathered from container registers  120 . 
     The memory unit  22  also includes one or more computers  202 , by which means the components of  FIG. 1  sustain the operations described in  FIG. 2A . 
     The memory unit  22  also includes flat or relational databases  900 , used where, and as required. Databases are used to store search phrases, search templates, system history for the analysis engine and execution engine, container levels and container, sites and digital elements, or any and all storage required to operate the system. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 2B , a drawing of a computer network  201  as a system  10 , showing a possible placement of nested containers  100 , computer servers, gateways  200 , on the sites described below. (Note:  FIG. 2B  utilizes in parts the same numbering scheme as  FIGS. 13A ,  13 B,  13 C,  13 D and as  FIG. 2A .) In  FIG. 2  B various exemplary sites are shown, any or all of which might interact dynamically within the system. Site  1  shows a single workstation with a container and gateway connected to an Intranet. (Individual containers may be a floppy or CD-Rom to be downloaded or inserted.) Site  2  shows a server with a gateway in relationship to various containers. Site  3  shows an Internet web page with a container residing on it. Site  4  shows a personal computer with containers and a gateway connected to the Internet. Site  5  shows a configuration of multiple servers and containers on a Wide Area Network. Site  6  shows a workstations with a gateway and containers within a container connected to a Wide Area Network. Site  7  shows an independent gateway, capable of acting as a data collection and data reporting site as it gathers data from the registers of transiting containers, and as an agent of the execution engine as it alters the registers of transient containers. A container  100  contains the code to enable it to interact with the components enumerated in  2 A, and to reconstruct itself internally and manage itself on the network  201 . The code resides in and with the container in its registers and gateway definitions and controls. Additional system code resides in all sites to manage the individual and collective operation and oversight of the components enumerated in  2 A, with the specific components distributed amongst the sites according to the requirements of optimization. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 2B 1 various exemplary sites are shown as described above in  FIG. 2B , with the addition of possible location of one or more gateway storage  205  locations. 
     Referring now to  FIGS. 2C through 2H , various exemplary sites with one or more of the logical components of the system  10  in relationship are shown. Site  1  comprises an interactive information container  100 , a container editor  110 , container registers  120 , a container register editor  125 , system-wide hierarchical container gateways  200 , gateway storage  205 , gateway editors  210 , engine editors  510 , a search interface  300 , search engine  320 , analysis engine  400 , execution engine  500 , a data reporting means  600 , a data reporting means editor  610 , a data collection means  700 , a data collection means editor  710 , and databases  900 , all residing on data storage means  20 , utilizing the memory unit to function  22 , operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26 . 
     Site  2  comprises an interactive information container  100 , a container editor  110 , container registers  120 , a container register editor  125 , system-wide hierarchical container gateways  200 , gateway storage  205 , gateway editors  210 , engine editors  510 , search engine  320 , analysis engine  400 , execution engine  500 , a data reporting means  600 , a data reporting means editor  610 , a data collection means  700 , a data collection means editor  710 , and databases  900 , all residing on data storage means  20 , utilizing the memory unit to function  22 , operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26 . 
     Site  3  comprises an interactive information container  100 , a container editor  110 , container registers  120 , a container register editor  125 , hierarchical container gateways  200 , gateway storage  205 , gateway editors  210 , and databases  900 , all residing on data storage means  20 , utilizing the memory unit to function  22 , operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26 . 
     Site  4  comprises an interactive information container  100 , a container editor  110 , container registers  120 , a container register editor  125 , hierarchical container gateways  200 , gateway storage  205 , gateway editors  210 , a search interface  300 , and databases  900 , all residing on data storage means  20 , utilizing the memory unit to function  22 , operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26 . 
     Site  5  comprises an interactive information container  100 , container registers  120 , a container register editor  125 , hierarchical container gateways  200 , gateway storage  205 , and databases  900 , all residing on data storage means  20 , accessed and utilized by non-resident memory unit  22 , operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26 . 
     Site  6  includes an independent analysis engine  400 , execution engine  500 , data collection means  700 , and data reporting means  600  gateway editors  210 , engine editors  510 , a data reporting means editor  610 , a data collection means  700 , a data collection means editor  710 , and databases  900 , all residing on data storage means  20 , utilizing the memory unit to function  22 , operating on communications network  12  with a communication device  26 . 
     Referring now to  FIG. 3A  and  FIG. 3B , a block diagram of several nested information containers is shown, including examples of elements, e.g., code  1100 , text  1200 , audio  1300 , video  1400 , photograph  1500 , graphic images  1600 , and examples of possible container level classifications in increasing size, e.g., element  10900000 , document  10800000 , database  10700000 , warehouse  10600000 , domain  10500000 , and continuing increasingly larger on  FIG. 3  (B), subject  10400000 , field  10300000 , master field  10200000 , species  10100000 . Containers may be infinitely nested and assigned any class, super class or sub class scheme and description by the creator of the container to govern nesting within that container. In addition to digital elements, containers may also include system process and components, including containerization itself. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 3C , a block diagram of an information container system is shown, listing, without any relationship indicated, some of the possible system components and processes, or sets thereof, that may be encapsulated as elements  01  in an information container  100 . An information container  100  may include one or more of the following: any unique, container  100 , gateway  200 , output device  16 , input device  24 , output device process  160 , input device process  240 , data storage device  20 , data storage device process  2000 , processor  18 , bus  12 , content  01 , search process  02 , interface  04 , memory unit  22 , communication device  26 , search interface  300 , search process  98 , network  201 , class of device, process or content  999 , class of process at any unique class of device  990 , process at any unique device  99 , editor  110 ,  125 ,  210 ,  510 ,  610 ,  710 , engine  320 ,  400 ,  500 , containerization process  1098 , or process  08 . 
     Any container may include (n) other containers, to infinity. The use of value evolving container registers  120  in conjunction with gateways  200 , data reporting modules  600 , data collection modules  700 , the analysis engine  400 , and the execution engine  500  provides the information container  100  with extensive knowledge of the use, operation of its internal contents, prior to, during and after those contents&#39; residence within that container  100 , and extensive knowledge of the use, operation and contents of the system  10  external to itself, and allows the container  100  to establish and evolve its own identity and course of interaction on the system  10 . Further, containers  100 , as logical enclosures, can exist and operate independent of their digital contents, whether encapsulating audio, video, text, graphic, or other. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 4 , a block diagram of an information container  100  is shown. The information container  100  is a logically defined data enclosure which encapsulates any element, digital segment (text, graphic, photograph, audio, video, or other), set of digital segments as described above with reference to  FIG. 3(C) , any system component or process, or other containers or sets of containers. The container  100  comprises the containerized elements  01 , registers  120  and a gateway  200 . 
     Registers  120  appended to an information container  110  are unique in that they operate independently of the encapsulated contents, providing rules of interaction, history of interaction, identity and interactive life to that container  100  through the duration of its existence on a network  201 , without requiring reference to, or interaction with, its specific contents. They enable a container  100  to establish an identity independent of its contents. Additionally, registers  120  are unique in that their internal values evolve through interaction with other containers  100 , gateways  200 , the analysis engine  400 , the execution engine  500 , and the choices made by the users in the search interface  300 , the container editor  110 , the register editor  125 , the gateway editor  210 , the engine editor  510 . Registers  120  are also unique in that they can interact with any register of a similar definition on any container  100  residing on the network  201 , independent of that container&#39;s contents. Registers  120 , once constructed, may be copied and appended to other containers  100  with their internal values reset, to form new containers. Register values, when collected at gateways  200  and made available to the analysis engine  400  through the data collection means  700  and the data reporting means  600 , provide an entirely new layer of network observation and analysis and operational control through the execution engine  500 . Registers  120  accomplish not only a real time information about information system, but also a real time information about information usage on a network. Further, because the user base of a network determines usage, the system  10 , in gathering information about information usage, is observing the choices of the human mind. When these choices are submitted to the analysis of a rules-based or other analysis engine  400 , the system  10  becomes capable of becoming progressively more responsive to the need of the user base, in effect, learning to become more useful by utilizing the execution engine  500  to create system-wide changes by altering the rules of gateway  200  interaction and thereby altering the registers  120  of transient containers  100  and establishing a complete evolutionary cycle of enhanced utility. 
     Further, in establishing the pre-defined registers as described in the following four paragraphs, the following unique aspects of information about information are utilized for the first time: 1) the dynamic governance of information according to its utility through time, in active, passive and neutral aspects, as explained below; 2) the dynamic governance of information according to its utility through space in active, passive and neutral aspects, as explained below; 3) the dynamic governance of information according to its ownership, as explained below; 4) the dynamic governance of information according to its unique history of interaction as an identity on a network, as explained below; 5) the dynamic governance of information according to the history of the system on which it exists, as explained below; 6) the dynamic governance of information according to established rules of interaction, in active, passive and neutral aspects, as explained below; 7) the dynamic governance of information according to the profile of its creator, as explained below; 8) the dynamic governance of information according to the value established by its ongoing usage, as explained below; 9) the dynamic governance of information according to it distributed ownership, as explained below; 10) the dynamic governance of information according to what class of information it might be incorporated into, and according to what class of information container it might incorporate, as explained below; 11) the dynamic governance of information according to self-reporting, as explained below. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 4 , registers  120  may be (1) pre-defined, (2) created by the user or acquired by the user, or (3) system-defined or system-created. Pre-defined registers  120  are those immediately available for selection by the user within a given container editor as part of that container editor, in order that the user may append any of those registers  120  to a container  100  and define values for those registers  120  where required. Registers  120  created by the user are those conceived and created by a specific user or user group and made immediately available for selection by the user or user group in conjunction with any of a wide number of container editors, in order that the user may append any of those registers  120  to a container  100  and define values for those registers  120  where required. Registers  120  acquired by the user are those registers existing network-wide  201 , created by the user base, that might be located and acquired by the user in order that the user may append any of those registers  120  to a container  100  and define values for those registers  120  where required. System-defined registers are those registers whose values are set and/or controlled by the system  10 . System-created registers are those registers created by the system  10 . 
     Registers  120  are user or user-base created or system-created values or ranges made available by the system  10  to attach to a unique container, and hold system-set, user-set, or system-evolved values. Values may be numeric, may describe domains of time or space, or may provide information about the container  100 , the user, or the system  10 . Registers  120  may be active, passive or interactive and may evolve with system use. Pre-defined registers include, but are not limited to, system history  110000 , container history  101000 , active time  102000 , passive time  103000 , neutral time  104000 , active space  111000 , passive space  112000 , neutral space  113000 , containment  105000 , inclusion  106000 , identity  114000 , value  115000 , ownership  107000 , ownership addresses  116000 , proportionate ownership  117000 , creator profile  108000 , receptivity  118000 , influence  119000 , points  109000 , others  120000 , reporting  121000 , neutrality  122000 , acquire  123000 , create  124000 , content title  125000 , content key phrase(s)  126000 , and content description  127000 , security  12800 , and parent rules  129000 . 
     Pre-defined registers comprise an historical container register  101000 , logging the history of the interaction of that container  100  with other containers, events and processes on the network  201 , an historical system register  110000 , logging the history of pertinent critical and processes on the network, a point register  109000  accumulating points based upon a hierarchically rated history of usage, an identity register  114000  maintaining a unique network wide identification and access location for a given container specifying a unique time and place of origin and original residence, a proportionate ownership register  117000  maintaining a record of ownership percentage and economic values, and others  120000 . 
     User-defined registers include a report register  121000  setting trigger levels for report sequences, content determination and delivery target, three time registers, consisting of a range, map, graph, list, curve or other designating time relevance,  102000  assigning the time characteristics by which that container will act upon another container or process,  103000  assigning the time characteristics by which that container be acted upon by another container or process, and  104000  assigning the time characteristics by which that container will interact with another container or process, three space registers, consisting of a range, map, graph, list, curve or other designating the domain and determinants of space relevance,  111000  assigning the space characteristics by which that content will act upon another container or process,  112000  assigning the space, characteristics by which that content will be acted upon by another container or process, and  113000  assigning the space characteristics by which that container will interact with another container or process, a domain of influence register  119000 , determining the set, class and range of containers upon which that container will act, a domain of receptivity register  118000 , determining the set, class and range of containers allowed to act upon that container, a domain of neutrality register  122000 , determining the set, class and range of containers with which that container will interact, a domain of containment register  105000 , determining the set, class and range of containers which that container may logically encompass, a domain of inclusion  106000  register, determining the set, class and range of containers by which that container might be encapsulated, an ownership register  107000 , recording the original ownership of that containers, a creator profile register  108000 , describing the creator or creators of that container, an ownership address register  116000 , maintaining the address of the creator or creators of that container, a value register  115000 , assigning a monetary or credit value to that container, other registers  120000  created by users or the system, a reporting register  121000 , determining the content, scheduling and recipients of information about that container, a neutrality register  122000 , an acquire register  123000 , enabling the user to search and utilize other registers residing on the network, a create register  124000 , enabling the user to construct a new register, a content title register  125000 , naming the contents of the container, a content key register,  126000 , identifying the container contents with a key phrase generated by the user and/or the system based upon successful usage of that phrase in conjunction with the utilization of the information within that container  100 , a content description register  127000 , identifying the container contents with additional description, a security register  128000 , controlling container security, and a parent container register  129000 , storing the rules governing container interaction as dictated by the parent (encapsulating) container. 
     The container also includes a gateway  200  and gateway storage  205 . 
     Gateways  200  are logically defined passageways residing both on containers  100  and independently in the system  10 . Gateways  200  govern the interactions of containers  100  encapsulated within their domain by reading and storing register  120  information of containers entering and exiting that container  100 . 
     The present invention also includes container gateway storage  205 . Gateway storage  205  stores information regarding the residence, absence, transience, and alteration of encapsulated and encapsulating containers  100 , and their attached registers  120 , holding the data collected from registers  120  of transient containers  100  in order to make it available to the data collection means  700  and the data reporting means  600 , and storing the rules governing the operations of its particular gateway  200 . 
     Referring now to  FIG. 5 , a flow chart of the preferred method for creating a container  100  is shown. 
     Input is received from the user selecting a container level through use of a drop-down menu  10100 . A menu of all possible container classes within the subset and superset scheme of multiple hierarchically nested containers, i.e.; element, document, file, database, warehouse, domain, and more, is displayed on the output device  10200 . Input is received from the user selecting a class  10300 . 
     A graphic representation of a container in that class, with registers common to all containers as well as registers unique to its class is displayed  10301 . 
     Input is received from the user choosing to “create”  10400 , “edit”  10500 , or “locate”  10600 . 
     When the input of “create”  10400  is received from the user, a container template in that class appears  10410 . Input from the user is then received adding or selecting a register  10540  to append to that container template. When input is received from the user adding a register, a list of registers that might be added to that class of container is made available to select  10550 . Input is received from the user selecting a register  10560  and editing it  10570 . The menu returns to “add or select”  10540 . 
     If the input of “locate”  10600  is received from the user, the system prompts the user to enter the identity of the container or class of containers  10605 . The system locates the container(s)  10610 . Input is received from the user selecting a container  10620 . The system prompts the user for a security code for permission to access the container for template use, or to alter its registers, or to alter its content  10630 . Input is received from the user entering a name and password providing access to one of the security levels  10640 . Input is received from the user editing the container accordingly by transition to step  10500  and performing the steps for editing. 
     If the input of “edit”  10500  is received, a list of containers available to edit at that level is shown  10510 . Input is received from the user selecting a container  10520 . That container appears, available to edit  10530 . Input is received from the user selecting “add” or “select” registers  10540  by the user clicking on the graphically depicted register, or from a drop down menu. Input is received from the user selecting the register to edit  10560 . Input is received from the user selecting “modify” or “delete” for that register  10565 . If input is received from the user to “delete,” that register is severed from the container. If input is received from the user to “modify”, the register editor  10570  screen appropriate to that register appears, i.e., an x-y type graph to define a curve of relevant active time, in which the user manipulates the x-y termini, scale and curve, or a global map in which Input is received from the user selecting the locale of active space, whether zip code, city, county, state, country, continent, plant or other. When input is received from the user saving the definition, the screen returns to the main container screen to make another selection available. Input is received from the user defining as many registers as he chooses. One of the registers may be named “new register.” Input is received from the user selecting the new register, and if chosen by the user, defining a wholly unique and new kind of register by the user entering input into the register editor  125 . 
     When the input is received from the user choosing to add a register, a list of registers that might be added to that class of container are made available to select  10550 . Input is received from the user selecting a register  10560  and editing it  10570 . The menu returns to “add or select”  10540 , and in turn to Input-Select Container. 
     Input may then be received from the user choosing to add, modify, or delete the container contents  10700 . Once the registers are defined, input is received from the user indicating completion and the interface reverts to the container editor. When input is received from the user choosing “select component” (to select the component to containerize) from the main menu bar  10700 , a window appears allowing the user to select any file, component, or other container. If for example, the user were creating a warehouse container, and wishes to incorporate several databases into that container, input would then be received from the user selecting “database.” The program would prompt the user for the location (directory) of that database or container. If the requested selection is not containerized, input may then be received from the user choosing to containerize the element at that time, after which the program returns to “select component.” Once input is received from the user defining the database location, the program logically encases the directory or directories in the defined container. The above procedure may be repeated as many times as desired to include multiple databases within a single container. While logical simplicity would dictate that all containers within a container be of the same subset, it would be possible for input to be received from the user choosing containers of any subset to include in the container. When input is received from the user choosing “finished,” the container is created with a unique network identity, preferably through some combination of exact time and digital device serial number, or centralized numbering system, or other means. The container  100  contains all digital code, including data and program software from the selected items or containers. 
     Input may then be received from the user to publish the container  11100  at a user-identified or system suggested location  11200  to be selected  11400 . 
     Input is received from the user to “publish”, from the main menu bar  11100 . Input is received from the user choosing to leave the container where it was created, move or copy it to another drive, directory, computer, or network the user designates, or select the location from location options offered by the system  11200 , or submit, or duplicate and submit, the container to the analysis engine  400  for intelligent inclusion in other containers, thus allowing the system to publish the container as instructed or choose the residence of the container  11400 . 
     If input is received from the user to choosing to “move,” or “copy” a browse function allows the user to name the new location or browse a list of possible locations. If input is received from the user choosing to “submit,” a browser function allows the user to name the analysis search engine  310  or browse a list of possible analyses engines. When input is received from the user choosing the residence of the container  11300 , the program restores the search interface screen. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 6 , a flow chart of the method for searching for containers  100 . 
     When input is received from the user selecting “search interface” from the main title bar, the search interface screen appears. The user is given the choice of containerizing selected content or requesting that container levels be displayed  30100 . From a drop down menu another menu appears allowing input to be received from the user selecting the container level  30200 . Input is received from the user selecting the container level (from the smallest component to the whole system)  30300 . 
     Input is received  30310  from the user selecting the phrases, containers or components, which then are re-submitted to the same process, until the input is received from the user selecting a specific site or container. 
     The search phrase, whether containerized or not, is submitted simultaneously to the search engine  30400  and the analysis engine  30500 . 
     The screen then reports in a selection menu, the number of applicable sites found by the search engine  30410 , the number of historically proven applicable sites found by the analysis engine  30410 , the number of historically proven applicable containers at the selected container level or any container level found by the analysis engine  30410 , and the number of historically proven new search phrases or digital segments found by the analysis engine  30320 . Input is received from the user selecting one of the named sets above  30330 . If input is received from the user choosing the search engine, the search interface lists the applicable site titles with a brief description  30410 . If input is received from the user choosing the site list of the analysis, the search interface lists the applicable site titles with a brief description  30410 . If input is received from the user choosing the container list of the analysis engine, the search interface lists the applicable container titles with a brief description  30410 . If input is received from the user selecting a container  30420 , the system offers the means to view titles and descriptions of sub-containers at any chosen class level. If input is received from the user choosing the phrase list of the analysis engine, the search interface lists the applicable phrases or digital segments with a brief description  30320 . The search and search result cycle repeats until input is received from the user choosing to go to an individual container or site. 
     Input is received from the user entering text or any digital string describing his search objectives into a text or search box. When input is received from the user submitting the search string, the system provides the option of containerizing the search through the container editor  10 . Once the search container  101  is created, the system restores the search interface  300  screen the user. 
     Input is received from the user selecting “search”, “supported search” or “both” from another drop-down menu and from submitting the search. When input is received from the user selecting “search”  30310 , the search phrase is submitted to the search engine  30400 , which searches both content and the appropriate container registers, as pre-indexed in the search engine, and returns a list of appropriate locations, components or containers. When input is received from the selecting “supported search”, the search phrase is submitted to the analysis engine search support, which returns a list, in a drop-down menu, of search phrases or individual containers, for any and all container levels, used by other users or created by the system and known to be historically successful for the described effort and the described searching user, as per the results of the analysis search engine. Input is received from the user selecting a new search phrase or specific container from the drop down menu  30330 . When input is received from the user choosing a new search phrase, that phrase is also submitted to the analysis engine  30500  which returns a list of pre-compiled historically proven sites, components or containers associated with that search phrase  30320 . Input is received from the user choosing a selection  30420  and the system calls up that specific site, container or component. If input is received from the user selecting a specific site, container or component at any time during the search process, that element is called up by the system  30440 . 
     Input is received from the user choosing to containerize a search or select a container level in which to search  30100 . When input is received from the user choosing to containerize the search, the software moves to the container editor as described in  FIG. 5 , and then returns the user to the search interface screen. Input is received from the user selecting to search a specific container level or the whole network. The system shows the available levels  30200 . Input is received from the user selecting a container level  30300 , and entering the text or digital component comprising the search string  30310 . The system searches the containers  30400  while simultaneously submitting the search string to the analysis engine  30500 . While the system is accessing containers, sites or templates  30700 , the analysis engine  30500  inquires of the appropriate database  30600  to access historically successful containers, sites or search templates corresponding to the search request  30700 , which is then shown on another portion or option of the search interface, either as available containers or sites  30410  or as search template options  30320 . On one portion or option of the search interface screen the corresponding containers or sites are listed and/or previewed for selection  30410 . Input is received from the user selecting the container to access  30420 . The system accesses that container  30430  and shows it on the screen  30440  for user review. Input is received from the user selecting an operation, i.e., preview, read, purchase, move, copy, lease, in any composed schedule with operations assigned specific values  30460 , and the system obtains the specified result  30470 . The selection of the operation including any interaction with any uniquely defined container  100  is recorded  30800  by the container gateway ( FIG. 2A ,  200 ), stored in the gateway storage  205  and made available to the analysis engine ( FIG. 9 ) by the data collection and reporting means ( FIG. 8 ). Reporting and collection occurs on a regular basis according to user determined times or rules. The analysis engine compiles and analyzes selections according to various rules-based systems applicable to the particular container area of residence in cyberspace. 
     Input is received from the user selecting the container or site  30410 , proceeding as described above, or selecting a search template  30330 , and editing it to re-enter the search  30310 . All operations on  FIG. 6  utilize the communication device  26  whenever necessary or expeditious. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 7 , a flow chart of the search process is shown. Steps in  FIG. 7  repeated from  FIG. 6  are given the same reference number as in  FIG. 6  for convenience and ease of understanding.  FIG. 7  commences with “SEARCH TRANSITS GATEWAY  32100 ”, continuing from  FIG. 6 , “SYSTEM SEARCHES CONTAINERS  30400 ”. The submitted search  32100  transits the gateway  200 . The gateway  200  interacts with the container registers  32200 . The gateways  200  store the information downloaded from the registers  32300 , and the container registers are altered  32500 . The container registers  120  then interact with the registers  120  of the encapsulated search, which registers, and the values set within, have been constructed and appended to the search through the search interface  32600 . Values are exchanged and compared and operations performed under the rules governing both interacting containers  100 , and the rules governing the search container  100  and any gateway  200 . The search engine  320 , operating under the principles and means of search engines presently existing as described elsewhere, then provides to the search interface  32600  a list of containers  100  meeting the requirements of the search and its appended registers, as well as additional search options  32900 . The gateway  200  reports and makes available for collection to the analysis engine  400  the information obtained from the interaction  32400 . On a periodic basis defined by the user or a rules-based system, the analysis engine  400  ( FIG. 9 ) stores in databases  900 , analyzes and instructs the execution engine  500 , and the execution engine  500  executes changes in the system components as defined below ( FIG. 10 ). All operations on  FIG. 7  utilize the communication device  26  whenever necessary or expeditious. 
     On the remaining figures, shapes referring to other figures, to operations external to the scope of the present figures, or to the subject of the present drawing, are indicated with dashed lines, and are shown only to place the described operations in the context of continuous and continual operations external to the drawing. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 8 , a flow chart of the preferred process for collecting and reporting information on containers is shown. The data reporting  600  and data collection  700  means utilizes subroutines within the analysis engines  400  and gateways  200  to submit and collect register information and sub level analysis to other analysis engines  400  or other gateways  200  of a higher (larger) logical set in a set pattern and frequency defined by the administrator. 
     Input is received from the user selecting “data reporting”  70100  from the “edit gateway” drop-down menu. Container levels are displayed  70200 . Input is received from the user selecting container level  70300 . A menu of all possible gateways  70320  and analysis engines  70330  residing on gateways on the above defined container class appears, depicted graphically as a tree of analysis engines and gateways at that container level. Input is received from the user selecting “source” from “source or destination.” Input is received from the user  70400  selecting a container, containers, or class of container by clicking on the graphically depicted container(s) or container level on a display device. Input is received from the user  70410  selecting “destination” from “source or destination” Input is received from the user  70500  selecting an analysis engine, analysis engines, or class of analysis engine by clicking on the graphically depicted analysis engine(s) or analysis engine level on a display device. A time scheduler is displayed. Input is received from the user  70510  selecting the reporting frequency for the selected gateways to report data to the selected engines. The data from the gateways is thenceforth continuously moved or copied to the analysis engines by the system  10  utilizing the execution engine  500  according to the defined schedule, rules and pattern  70420 ,  70520 . 
     Input is received from the user selecting “choose container level”  70300  from the gateway editor drop-down menu. A menu  70320  appears listing the classes of containers on the system within the defined subset and superset scheme of multiple hierarchically nested containers, i.e.; element, document, file, database, warehouse, domain, appears. Input is received from the user selecting the class of containers. A graphic representation of that container level throughout the system appears. Input  70300  is received from the user selecting individual containers or all the containers in that class. 
     From the gateway editor drop-down menu input  70100  is received from the user selecting “data collecting” A menu of all possible gateways and analysis engines residing on gateways on the above defined container class appears, depicted graphically as a tree of analysis engines, and gateways at that container level. Input  70510  is received from the user selecting “source” from “source or destination.” Input is received from the user selecting a container, containers, or class of container by clicking on the graphically depicted container(s) or container level. Input  70510  is received from the user selecting “destination” from “source or destination.” Input  70510  is received from the user selecting an analysis engine, analysis engines, or class of analysis engine by clicking on the graphically depicted analysis engine(s) or analysis engine level. A time scheduler appears. Input  70510  is received from the user selecting the collecting frequency for the selected engines to collect data from the selected gateways. The data from the gateways is thenceforth continuously moved or copied to the analysis engines by the system  10  utilizing the execution engine  500  according to the defined schedule, rules and pattern. 
     The data collection  700  means, utilizing the communication device  26  and an execution engine  500 , comprises one or more subroutines or agents programmed to travel through the network collecting the accumulated data and analyses from selected analysis engines, gateways or selected subset level of analysis engines or gateways (as above) in a pattern and frequency defined by the gateway administrator at a given container level. Input  70510  is received from the user or administrator, defining the collection and reporting of data, thus controlling permission within his gateway, and being subject to permission levels defined by others beyond his gateway. 
     Input is received from the user or gateway administrator selecting collection or reporting  70100  and the system shows the container levels available  70200 . Input is received from the user selecting a container level  70300 . Input is received from the user selecting “gateway”  70400  or “engine”  70500 . The system shows gateways  70320  or engines  70330  associated with that level. Input is received from the user editing the reporting parameters associated with a gateway or a class of gateways  70410  or an engine or class of engines  70510 . Input is received from the user selecting the collecting frequency for the chosen engines. When input is received from the user choosing to user save the definition, the screen returns to the main container screen, step  70100  to make another selection available. Input is received from the user choosing to repeat the cycle, choosing “destination” to describe the destination analysis engines and the data collecting frequency from those destination analysis engines. The data collection means  700  collects the accumulated gateway information in a pattern and frequency defined by the gateway administrator or user at a given container level. 
     The system utilizing the execution engine (see  FIG. 10 ) distributes the new parameters to the gateways  70420  or engines  70520  by the communication device  26 . Using the new parameters the gateways report to the analysis engines  70430  after, in some cases, conducting sub-analysis  70440 , or using sub-analysis  70440  to submit directly to specified gateways under certain conditions and parameters, and the analysis engines collect from the gateways  70530 . The analysis engine uploads, downloads and utilizes information to databases  900  to conducts its analysis. 
     The invention includes an analysis engine  400 . Through the data reporting  600  means and data collection  700  the analysis engine  400  receives data and sub-analysis from the search interface and the gateways. Data includes, for each gateway  200 , the frequency and grade of access, the description of the user accessing, the identity of the container  100  accessing, the register parameters, and the historically accumulated register data. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 9 , a flow chart of the operation of the analysis engine  400  is shown. Analysis engines  400  may reside at any gateway or anywhere in the system  10 . The analysis engine  400 , operating under its own programmed sequence, utilizing the communication device  26 , works, by means of programmed rules of logical, mathematical, statistical or other analysis upon gateway and register information, in continuous interaction with the search process  410  and the data collection and reporting process  420  to analyze, determine and compile instructions  40100  on container construction  40110  to containerize in an automated process  40115 , on container contents  40120  to move, copy or delete containers  40125 , on storage schemes  40130  to move or copy containers to new storage  40135 , on access routes  40140  to alter gateway pointers to sought information  40145 , on search templates  40150  to add, delete or change search phrases and the referenced objects indicated by those search phrases  40155  and on gateway instructions  40160  to alter gateway registers and pointers  40165 . 
     Thus, analyses might include, but are not limited to, the physical locus of the users accessing, the demographic classification of the users accessing, the access frequency for a given container, the range or curve of time relevance affecting a container, the range or region of space relevance affecting a container  100 , the number or number of a specific type of container  100  transiting a gateway  200 , the hierarchically graded usage of containers  100  or container contents  01  compared with the demographic of those users accessing the container, the hierarchically graded usage of containers  100  or container contents  01  compared with search phrases entered into the search interface  300 , the hierarchically graded usage of containers  100  or container contents  01  compared with search phrases entered into the search interface  300  compared with the demographic of the users accessing, the number of pertinent containers nested within a given container  100 . Once an analysis is accomplished, the result is compared to pre-programmed rules triggering instruction sets (such as moving a container to nest within another container). 
     Instructions are then sent to the execution engine  40200 , which utilizes the communication device  26  to execute the instructions derived from the analyses. These containerized instructions transit the gateways  40300  and are utilized in the gateway process ( FIG. 12 ) 
     Referring now to  FIG. 10 , a flow chart of the operation of the execution engine is shown. The execution engine  400 , operating under its own programmed sequence in response to the instructions from the analysis engine  50100 , utilizing the communication device  26 , works in continuous process as its containerized execution instructions transit the gateways  50200  to create containers  50210  in an automated containerization process  50215 , alter container contents  50230  by moving or copying containers to new containers  50235 , to alter storage  50240  by moving or copying containers to new storage  50245 , to alter access routes  50250  by altering gateway pointers  50255 , to alter search templates  50260  by adding, changing and deleting search phrases and the referenced objects indicated by those search phrases  50265 , to alter gateway instructions  50270  by altering gateway registers and pointers  50275 . The execution works in a continuous loop with the gateway process  50300 , the data collection and reporting process  50400  and the analysis engine process  50300 . 
     The invention includes gateways  200 . Gateways may be placed and reside anywhere on the network where containers transit. Gateways also reside on any or all containers. The gateway reads and stores the chosen register information from transient containers entering or exiting its logical boundaries. The resident analysis search engine, if any, performs the specified level of analysis. Data and analysis is both held for the collection means according to the pattern and timing specified in the data reporting  600  editor and submitted according to the pattern and timing specified in the data collection means editor  700 . 
     The gateways are network-wide, hierarchical, and nestable, and reside with a container encompassing any component, digital code, file, search string, set, database, network, event or process and maintaining a unique lifelong network wide identity and unique in all the universe historical identity, or may be strategically placed at such container transit points to gather and store register information attached to any such container, according to system-defined, system-generated, or user determined rules residing in its registers defining the behavior of those containers and components as they exit and enter one another, or interact with one another or any system process or system component within the logical domain of that container, or after exiting and entering that container, or defining how they interact with that unique gateway. 
     Gateway&#39;s registers comprise both system-defined and user-defined registers, alterable by author, duration, location, network-wide history, individual container history and/or interaction with other containers, gateways, networks or media, and evolve according to that gateway&#39;s history on a computer network, or according to the network history of events and processes, or according to that information component&#39;s interaction with other information containers, components, system components, network events or processes. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 1 , a flow chart of the gateway editor is shown. From the main title bar input is received from the user selecting “containerize” or “gateway level”  20100 . When input is received from the user selecting “containerize” the system enters the container editor process  110 . When input is received from the user selecting “gateway,” the system shows the gateway levels available  20200 . A menu of all possible gateways within the subset and superset scheme of defined multiple hierarchically nested gateways appears. Input is received from the user selecting the gateway level  20300 . The system searches the gateways  20500  to locate the available gateway templates  20700  and the available gateways  20600 . Input is received from the user selecting the gateway  20610  or gateway level template  20720 . The system goes to the gateway  20620  or to the template  20720 . A graphic representation of the chosen gateway  20630  or template  20730  appears. Input is received from the user to edit  20640  or create a gateway  20740 . Once completed, input may be received from the user selecting “analysis level” from the gateway  200  drop-down menu, to select the level of analysis in a multi-level analysis sequence to be accomplished at the local level by a gateway-resident analysis engine. The user accesses the container editor to containerize ( FIG. 5 ). Input is received from the user selecting the registers by clicking on the graphically depicted register, or from a drop down menu. Input is received from the user setting the registers as described elsewhere in (“container registers”). Input is received from the user selecting or defining the rules governing the interaction of that gateway with transient containers. Input is received from the user selecting or defining the rules governing the interaction of containers existing within the logical domain of the container  100  to which that gateway is attached. The user publishes the gateway ( FIG. 5 ). Input is received from the user selecting “residence” from the main menu bar.). Input is received from the user choosing to leave the gateway where it was created, move it to container on another drive, directory, computer, or network. If the user chooses “move,” a browse function allows the user to name the new location or browse a list of possible locations. Once input is received from the user choosing the residence of the gateway, the program restores the search interface screen. 
     The invention includes a data reporting means editor  610 , and a data collection means editor  710 ,  FIG. 2A , as a menu option under the gateway editor  210 . 
     The present invention also includes a gateway process. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 12 , a flow chart of the gateway process is shown. A system operation, search process or element container or process container is shown in transit  21100  passing through a gateway  21200 . The container, operation or process interacts with the gateway  21300 , uploading, downloading and exchanging information with the container, operation or process. The gateway stores container information  21400  and the container registers are altered  21500 . The container registers also interact with the search interface  21600 . The gateways report the register information or make it available for collection by the data reporting and collection means ( FIG. 8 ) operating on the communication device  26  to provide the information to the analysis engine  21800 , which stores  90100 , analyzes and instructs the execution engine  21900 , which processes and instructions are also stored  90100  by the execution engine upon receipt. 
     All operations in  FIG. 12  utilize the communication device  26  whenever necessary or expeditious. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 13A , a drawing of nested containers  100  prior to the container modification process on a network  201  is shown. (Note: The same container numbering scheme is used in  FIGS. 13A ,  13 B,  13 C,  13 D and in  2 B.) Information containers  505  and  909 , residing within container  908 , operating under the rules governing container interaction within that container  908  downloaded to container  505  and  909  from gateway  9081  upon their entrance to container  908 , which rules had been downloaded from execution engine  500  acting under the direction of analysis engine  400 , and under the rules programmed into their own registers  404120 ,  909120 , compare the specified (by those rules) set of registers  404120 ,  909120 , i.e., time and space, and determine a container  404  encapsulated within  505  would be more appropriately encapsulated within container  909 . 
     Referring now to  FIG. 13B  a drawing of nested containers during a container modification process on a network  201  is shown. Container  404  is moved to reside with container  909 . As the container  404  exits container  505 , the gateway of container  505 , being gateway  5051 , operating under the rules governing container interaction with a gateway  5051  upon egress or egress as programmed in the gateway editor  210  and modified by the execution engine  500  executing the instructions of the analysis engine  400 , or any greater logical analysis engine  408  providing execution instructions to an execution engine  508  operating in a larger encompassing container  108  entering through that container&#39;s gateway  208  or an independent gateway  707 , or sub-analysis engine operating at any gateway level, records the register information of container  404 . The gateway  5051  reports the transaction to the gateway  9081  of container  908 , being the next higher logical container. Gateway  9081  holds in gateway storage  205  the information until collected by one or more data collection processes  700 , or reported to one or more data reporting processes  600 , serving one or more analysis engines  400  residing independently on the system  10  or an analysis engine at higher logical container  303 . The analysis engine  400 , comparing reports of user hierarchically graded usage under the operations of the search engine  320  and the search interface  300 , on information container  808  after receiving reports from the data reporting means of container  404  being moved to container  909  determines, i.e., that the number of time and space relevant containers residing within container  909  is sufficient to warrant an action, and directs the execution engine  500  to copy container  909 , nested within container  908 , to a third information container  808 . As the copy instruction from execution engine  500  transits the gateway of container  908 , the gateway  9081  records the instruction. The copy instruction interacts with the registers  909120  of container  909  regarding the rules governing its copying to another location. Once approved by the governing rules of registers  909120  appended to container  909 , container  909  is duplicated. As the duplicate container  909  exits the container  908 , the gateway records the register information  909120  of container  909 , and the registers  909120  of container  909  are altered by special instructions from gateway  9081  under the rules residing in gateway  9081  regarding ingress and egress and the rules residing in the registers  909120  of container  909  regarding alteration by gateways upon ingress and egress. Passing through independent gateway  707 , the register information  909120  is recorded, and awaits data collection or reporting  700 ,  600 . As container  909  enters container  808 , the gateway records the register information  909120  of container  909 , the registers  909120  of  909  are altered by special instructions from gateway  8081 , operating under the rules as described in the paragraph above, and container  909  takes up residence within container  808 . 
     Referring now to  FIG. 13C , a drawing of nested containers after the container modification process on a network  201  process is shown. Container  909 , now also logically residing within container  808 , commences to interact with other containers  606  in  808  under the rules governing container interaction within container  808  as received from gateway  8081  upon transiting that gateway, and under the rules of registers  606120 ,  909120  of the interacting containers  606 ,  909 , operating under the rules as described in the paragraph above. Through data collection and reporting  700 ,  600 , analysis engine is appraised of container&#39;s  909  new duplicate residence. I.e., operating under the registers of space relevance, a body of law pertaining to Boston Municipal tax law may be housed in a container holding Massachusetts tax law, but it would be more appropriately located in a container holding Boston tax law, with only a pointer to that location residing in the Massachusetts tax law container. In this example, such an analysis could be accomplished by comparison of zip code information in the space registers, or logical rules-based analysis, with “state” being a larger set than “city”. Or, i.e., operating under the registers of time relevance, the curve of time relevance for a concert might follow an ascending curve for the months prior, hit a brief plateau, and then reach a precipitous decline, at which time certain pertinent information only might be moved to an archival container of city events or rock concerts of that year. In this example, once the curve is mapped into a register, that map would cause an increasing frequency of pointers to that container in other containers or gateways, or inclusion of that container in other containers, as the analysis engine compares that curve with increasing user inquiry. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 13D , a flowchart of the reconstruction process is shown. 
     Information containers  505  and  909 , residing within container  908 , operating under the rules governing container interaction within that container  908  downloaded  888103  to container  505  and  909  from gateway  9081  upon their entrance to container  908 , which rules had been downloaded  888102  from execution engine  500  acting under the direction  888101  of analysis engine  400 , and under the rules programmed into their own registers  404120 ,  909120 , compare  888104  the specified (by those rules) set of registers  404120 ,  909120 , i.e., time and space, and determine  888105  a container  404  encapsulated within  505  would be more appropriately encapsulated within container  909 . 
     Container  404  is moved  888106  to reside with container  909 . As the container  404  exits container  505 , the gateway of container  505 , being gateway  5051 , operating under the rules governing container interaction with a gateway  5051  upon egress or egress as programmed in the gateway editor  210  and modified  888108  by the execution engine  500  executing the instructions of the analysis engine  400 , or any greater logical analysis engine  408  providing execution instructions  888107  to an execution engine  508  operating in a larger encompassing container  108  entering through that container&#39;s gateway  208  or an independent gateway  707 , or sub-analysis engine operating at any gateway level, records  888109  the register information of container  404 , and alters the register information of container  404 . The gateway  5051  reports  888110  the transaction to the gateway  9081  of container  908 , being the next higher logical container. Gateway  9081  holds  888111  in gateway storage  205  the information until collected by one or more data collection processes  700 , or reported to one or more data reporting processes  600 , serving  888112  one or more analysis engines  400  residing independently on the system  10  or an analysis engine at higher logical container  303 . The analysis engine  400 , comparing  888114  reports of user hierarchically graded usage on information container  808  under the operations of the search engine  320  and the search interface  300 , after receiving  888113  reports from the data reporting means of container  404  being moved to container  909 , determines  888115 , i.e., that the number of time and space relevant containers residing within container  909  is sufficient to warrant an action, and directs  888115  the execution engine  500  to copy container  909 , nested within container  908 , to a third information container  808 . As the copy instruction from execution engine  500  transits the gateway of container  908 , the gateway  9081  records  888116  the instruction. The copy instruction interacts  888117  with the registers  909120  of container  909  regarding the rules governing its copying to another location. Once approved  888118  by the governing rules of registers  909120  appended to container  909 , container  909  is duplicated  888118 . As the duplicate container  909  exits the container  908 , the gateway records  888119  the register information  909120  of container  909 , and the registers  909120  of container  909  are altered  888120  by special instructions from gateway  9081  under the rules residing in gateway  9081  regarding ingress and egress and the rules residing in the registers  909120  of container  909  regarding alteration by gateways upon ingress and egress. Passing through independent gateway  707 , the register information  909120  is recorded  888121 , and awaits  888122  data collection or reporting  700 ,  600 . As container  909  enters container  808 , the gateway records  888123  the register information  909120  of container  909 , the registers  909120  of  909  are altered  888124  by special instructions from gateway  8081 , operating under the rules as described in the paragraph above, and container  909  takes up residence  888125  within container  808 . 
     Container  909 , now also logically residing (in addition to its original container residence) within container  808 , commences to interact  888126  with other containers  606  in  808  under the rules governing container interaction within container  808  as received from gateway  8081  upon transiting that gateway, and under the rules of registers  606120 ,  909120  of the interacting containers  606 ,  909 , operating under the rules as described in the paragraph above. Through data collection and reporting  700 ,  600 , analysis engine is appraised  888127  of container&#39;s  909  new duplicate residence. 
     Referring now to  FIG. 14 , the screen interface of the container editor is shown. This interface is a process wherein input is received by the user using the main menu  78  or drop down menu  1419 , or using an input device to “drag and drop” or click, causing the system  10  to acquire  1409 , edit  1410  or create  1411  a file  1407 , container  1408  or digital content  01 , to search for  1412 , acquire  1413 , edit  1414  or create  1415 , print  1416 , or containerize  1417  a container  100 , to select  1402 , (or by clicking on register), search  1403 , acquire  1404 , edit  1405 , or create a register  1406  to append or detach registers  120  to those containers, to set register values in those registers  120 , to utilize the register editor  125  through  1405  to create new registers, or to  1418  add, detach, acquire a gateway  200  to append or detach to those containers, and utilize the gateway editor  210  through  1418 . (See detailed description referring to  FIG. 5 ) 
     Referring now to  FIG. 15 , the screen interface of the gateway editor is shown. This interface is a process wherein input is received by the user using the main menu  1501  or drop down menu  1513 , or using an input device to “drag and drop” or click, causing the system  10  to search for  1507 , acquire  1508 , edit  1509  create  1510 , print  1511  or containerize  1512  gateways, and causing the system  10  to establish rules by which an individual gateway governs the transiting  1502 , entering  1503 , exiting  1504  of containers and the interaction of containers within its domain  1505 , and external of its domain  1506 . (See detailed description referring to  FIG. 11 ). 
     Referring now to  FIG. 16 , the screen interface of the search interface. This interface is a process wherein input is received by the user using the main menu  1625  or drop down menu  1624 , or using an input device to “drag and drop” or click, or by entering text, causing the system  10  to select  1615 , search for  1616 , acquire  1617 , edit  1618  create  1619 , print  1620 , containerize  1621  (by accessing the container editor  110 ) or insert  1622  digital search strings into the search box  1623  in order to submit that string to the search engine  320 , or causing the system  10  to select  1602 , search for  1603 , acquire  1604 , edit  1605 , create  1612 , containerize  1613  (by accessing the container editor  110 ), or insert  1614  search keys (templates that comprise search scope in geographic range, container level, and specific key words or digital strings), or containerized searches (containers  110 ), into the search box  1623  in order to submit that string to the search engine  320 , or causing the system  10  to set a search range by geographic range  1607 , container level  1608 , or acquire  1609 , edit  1610  or create  1611  a scope template. (templates that comprise search scope in geographic range and, container level.) (See detailed description referring to  FIG. 6 ). 
     Referring now to  FIG. 17 , a drawing showing, on an input device or computer screen  24 , in any generic (dashed lines) software application program, a drop-down menu link  1403  on a drop down menu  1402  dropping down from a main menu  1401 , and a free-floating button link  1404 , is shown. When input is received at  1402  or  1403 , the system  10  makes available to the user the containerization process or container editor  110 . When input is received at drop-down menu link  1405  or a button link  1406 , the system  10  makes available to the user the means to enter and interact with this system  10  or this network  201  in any of their aspects. The interfaces  1403 ,  1404  show a process wherein input is received causing the system  10  to encapsulate content or access the container editor  110 . The link also allows the user to encapsulate the page or file on which he is currently working, without selecting content, and if so desired, without accessing the container editor. The interfaces  1405 ,  1406  show a process wherein input is received causing the system  10  to access or interact with the system  10  or the network  201 . 
     The present invention also includes a search engine  320 . Once the key word(s), phrase or digital segment is entered into the search interface  300 , or an offered selection chosen on the menu, it is utilized by the search engine  320  to locate the desired site or data. 
     The search engine employed may be any industry standard search engine such as Verity “Topic”, or Personal Library Software, as used in Dow Jones News Retrieval, or Internet search engines such as Webcrawler, Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Alexa or any Internet search engine, or any new engines to be developed capable of searching for and locating digital segments, whether text, audio, video or graphic. 
     The present invention also includes an analysis engine  400 . Utilizing rules-based analysis, the analysis engine determines the class of storage medium upon which containers reside, the subsets and supersets by which and in which containers encompass and reside within one another, the routes of access to those containers, the historically successful search parameters by which those containers are accessed based upon the identity of the user accessing the containers, and the grade of access chosen by the user in accessing that container  100 . 
     Utilizing a pre-programmed sequence of compilation, and inductive, deductive and derivative analysis, the analysis engine manufactures instructions based upon the analysis of the information submitted by the gateways and the search interface, and submits those instructions to the appropriate execution engine  500  in order to create new information containers, content assemblages, storage schemes, access routes, search templates, and gateway instructions, and others, and to provide informed search options through the search interface to the inquiring user. 
     The present invention also includes an engine editor  510 , that provides a system administrator with a means of editing the operating principles of that search engine, and search template loading in the search interface  300 , a reporting and collection means editor  610 ,  710 , governing data reporting  600  and data collection  700  at the gateways  200  as defined by the gateway editor  210  and the register editor  125 , a container editor  110  for creating and modifying containers and appending registers to containers, a register editor  125  for creating and modifying container registers and establishing and adjusting the values therein, container gateways  200  with their own storage  205 , information containers  100  for holding information and container registers for holding information about specific containers and their history on the network. 
     The present invention also includes an execution engine  300 . Based upon instructions received from the analysis engine  400  utilizing the communication device  26 , the execution engine  500  provides search phrases to the search interface  300  based upon initially received inquiries, relocates containers including their programs, data and registers to other directories, drives, computers, networks on other classes of storage mediums, i.e., tape drive, optical drive, CD-ROM, deletes, copies, moves containers to nest within or encompass other containers on other directories, drives, computers, networks to nest within other containers, alters the class of storage medium upon which containers reside, the subsets and supersets by which and in which containers encompass and reside within one another, the routes of access to those containers, and the historically successful search parameters by which those containers are accessed based upon the identity of the user accessing the container and the grade of access chosen by the user in accessing that container. 
     The execution engine  400  fulfills the instructions of the analysis search engine  500 , to create new information containers, content sub and superset assemblages, storage schemes, access routes, search templates, gateway  200  instructions and other system functions. The execution engine includes an editor  510  that provides a system manager with a means of editing the operating principles of that search engine, governing data reporting, data collection  700 , search template loading, gateway instructions, and other functions. 
     The present invention also includes flat or relational databases  900 , used where, and as required. 
     The present invention also includes a communication device  26  supporting all operations on a network wide basis. 
     The present invention also includes a search engine  300  to locate the desired site or data. The present invention also includes databases  900 , flat or relational, to serve the other components of the system as needed and where needed. 
     The present invention also includes editors, by which the user may alter the governing aspects of the system. Editors include, but are not limited to, a container editor  110 , a register editor  125 , a gateway editor  210 , an engine editor  510 , a reporting means editor  610 , a search interface  300 , and a collection means editor  710 . 
     The present invention also includes specific screen interfaces for the editors, as described in  FIG. 14 ,  FIG. 15 . and  FIG. 16 . 
     The present invention also includes a means for this system  10  and network  201  or container editor  110  to be accessed from a menu or button selection within any program, as described in  FIG. 17 . 
     While the present invention has been described with reference to certain preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that various modifications may be provided. For example, both analysis engine and execution engine may be duplicated or modified for distribution at various locations and hierarchical positions in the gateway and container system throughout the network and designed to work in concert. Also, the physical computing infrastructure may be mainframe, mini, client server or other with various network and distributed computing designs, including digitally supported or based physical or public media, and the components of the system  10 , as described in  FIG. 1  may be physically distributed through space. Even the contents of a single container may be logically referenced but be physically distributed through the network and reside at multiple storage locations. The whole system may be hierarchically nested within other systems to the nth degree. Whole systems may also be encapsulated within containers. A single container may also encompass a single physical media, such as a CD-ROM disk, programmed with the container, gateway and register design. Gateways may be strategically placed on containers at ingress and/or egress points or may be placed strategically throughout the system for optimal collection and reporting output and gateway system control. Also, the loop of gateway data collection and reporting, analysis engine analysis, instruction, and gateway modification, and execution engine operations may be infinitely nested, from the smallest container of two sub-containers to whole networks holding millions of containers and thousands of levels, with analysis itself nested within the multiple levels. Gateways may be established at both logical and physical junctures such as a satellite uplink point. Also, the provision to establish a unique network identity might be designed to include as of yet unknown computer networks as they arise. The analysis and execution engines may operate on a rules-based, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, neural net, or other system not yet devised. Other variations upon and modifications to the preferred embodiments are provided for by the present invention, which is limited only by the following claims. Also, the classification scheme of nested containers, while designated by the container creators, may transform, be utilized otherwise, or be wholly discarded according to usage. Also, hardware configurations, such as the use of RAM or hard drives for storage or lasers for communication may assume myriad forms without altering the essential operation of this invention.

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