System for categorizing and normalizing knowledge data based on user's affinity to knowledge

• US 20030158866A1
• Filed: 01/14/2003
• Published: 08/21/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Company Limited (ByteDance Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Schirmer, Andrew L., Newbold, David L., Kraenzel, Carl J., Goodwin, James P., Wilson, Paul L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,698,303 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/00 Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A system, method, and processor readable medium for processing data in a knowledge management system gathers information content and transmits a work request for the information content gathered. The information content may be registered with a K-map and assigned a unique document identifier. A work queue processes the work requests. The processed information may then be transmitted to another work queue for further processing. Further processing may include categorization, full-text indexing, metrics extraction or other process. Control messages may be transmitted to one or more users providing a status of the work request. The information may be analyzed and further indexed. A progress statistics report may be generated for each of the processes performed on the document. The progress statistics may be provided in a record. A shared access to a central data structure representing the metrics history and taxonomy may be provided for all work queues via a CORBA service.

Claims

1. A system for knowledge processing comprising:

a gathering module that gathers information from one or more user selectable data repositories;

a categorization module that categorizes the gathered information into one or more categories; and

a providing module that provides the gathered information to one or more users having an established affinity to the one or more categories.

2. A system of claim 1, wherein the one or more user selectable data repositories are web-based data repositories.

3. A system of claim 2, wherein at least one of the web-based data repositories is an online bulletin board.

4. A system of claim 1, wherein the one or more user selectable data repositories are non-web based data repositories.

5. A system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the non-web based data repositories is Lotus Notes database.

6. A system of claim 1, wherein the one or more categories are specified by a user.

7. A method for knowledge processing comprising the steps of:

gathering information from one or more user selectable data repositories;

categorizing the gathered information into one or more categories; and

providing the gathered information to one or more users having an established affinity to the one or more categories.

8. A method of claim 7, wherein the one or more user selectable data repositories are web-based data repositories.

9. A method of claim 8, wherein at least one of the web-based data repositories is an online bulletin board.

10. A method of claim 7, wherein the one or more user selectable data repositories are non-web based data repositories.

11. A method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the non-web based data repositories is Lotus Notes database.

12. A method of claim 7, wherein the one or more categories are specified by a user.

13. A system for knowledge processing comprising:

gathering means that gather information from one or more user selectable data repositories;

categorization means that categorize the gathered information into one or more categories; and

providing means that provide the gathered information to one or more users having an established affinity to the one or more categories.

14. A system of claim 13, wherein the one or more user selectable data repositories are web-based data repositories.

15. A system of claim 14, wherein at least one of the web-based data repositories is an on-line bulletin board.

16. A system of claim 13, wherein the one or more user selectable data repositories are non-web based data repositories.

17. A system of claim 16, wherein at least one of the non-web based data repositories is Lotus Notes database.

18. A system of claim 13, wherein the one or more categories are specified by a user.