System and method for managing and utilizing information

• US 20080082568A1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Advanced Health Media LLC (IQVIA Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Advanced Health Media LLC (IQVIA Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Miller, Greg, McMurtry, Kevin, Brady, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US11/827,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082568A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for managing information associated with a plurality of electronic documents, the computer-executable instructions including: instructions for displaying a hierarchically organized list of user selectable keywords; instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with selected ones of the keywords; instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with at least one meeting, conference or event; and instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with at least one of the keywords and meetings, conferences or events responsively to a user request therefore.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for managing information associated with a plurality of electronic documents, said computer-executable instructions comprising:

instructions for displaying a hierarchically organized list of user selectable keywords;

instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with selected ones of the keywords;

instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with at least one meeting, conference or event; and

instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with at least one of the keywords and meetings, conferences or events responsively to a user request therefore.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with a date responsively to a request therefore.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with a source responsively to a request therefore.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with an author responsively to a request therefore.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with a title responsively to a request therefore.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with an electronic document type responsively to a request therefore.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically presenting a link to other information associated with the information associated with the stored documents.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of persons associated with the information associated with the stored documents.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the list of persons comprises at least two of:

name, telephone number, contact address, e-mail address, professional affiliation, company and title.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the list of persons comprises at least three of:

name, telephone number, contact address, e-mail address, professional affiliation, company and title.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the electronic documents include at lease some of:

.PDF, .PPT, .DOC, .TXT and .WPD documents.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the electronic documents include:

.PDF, .PPT, .DOC, .TXT and .WPD documents.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for allowing a user to enter a new keyword into the hierarchical list of keywords stored in at least one database.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for allowing a user to delete a keyword from the hierarchical list of keywords stored in at least one database.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein at least some of the meetings, conferences or events are past meetings, conferences or events.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein at least some of the meetings, conferences or events are future meetings, conferences or events.