1. A method of processing and presenting data, comprising the steps of: (1) maintaining at least one first database of patents; (2) maintaining at least one second database of non-patent information of interest to a corporate entity; (3) maintaining one or more groups, each of said one or more groups comprising any number of said patents from said at least one first database; (4) automatically processing said patents in one of said one or more groups in conjunction with non-patent information from said at least one second database; and (5) presenting data generated by said processing in a hyperbolic tree.