The present invention relates to a system and methodology to assist users
with data access activities and that includes such activities as routine
web browsing and/or data access applications. A coalesced display or
montage of aggregated information is provided that is focused from a
plurality of sources to achieve substantially one-button access to user's
desired web or data source information/destinations in order to mitigate
efforts in retrieving and viewing such information. Past web or other
type data access patterns can be mined to predict future browsing sites
or desired access locations. A system is provided that builds
personalized web portals for associated users based on models mined from
past data access patterns. The portals can provide links to web resources
as well as embed content from distal (remote) pages or sites producing a
montage of web or other type data content. Automated topic classification
is employed to create multiple topic-centric views that can be invoked by
a user.