System for Information Discovery & Organization

A system for searching for and organizing documents, comprising:

• at least one computer system including,
• a first repository of data representing an organization of documents provided in response to frequency of terms found in individual documents;
• a second repository of data representing topics, with an individual topic being associated with,
• (a) a set of documents in the first repository and
• (b) a related topic;
• a processor configured to, in response to a received search term,
• identify a first document using the first repository,
• identify a related topic comprising a topic related to the topic associated with the identified first document, using the second repository,
• identify a second document associated with the identified related topic and
• output data representing said search result documents including the first and second documents.

A method for searching for and organizing documents, comprising the activities of:

• storing in a first repository, data representing an organization of documents provided in response to frequency of terms found in individual documents;
• storing in a second repository, data representing topics, with an individual topic being associated with,
• (a) a set of documents in the first repository and
• (b) a related topic;
• in response to a received search term, using the first and second repositories to identify search result documents in said organization of documents including documents from a first set of documents associated with said individual topic and a second set of documents associated with said related topic.