Automatic knowledge management system

• US 20030220908A1
• Filed: 05/21/2002
• Published: 11/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bridgewell Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bridgewell Incorporated
• Inventors: Chou, Peilin
• Granted Patent: US 6,915,297 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

An automatic knowledge management system comprising: a knowledge base management module to accessibly store knowledge information in particular file formats or related file addresses into an adjustable knowledge tree structure in its knowledge base memory means; an automatic search engine to execute the searching instructions of users periodically or non-periodically to search searchable information in a wide filed knowledge base according to certain search conditions and to store results of such search into its information buffer memory means; an information filter module to identify information resulted from the searching of the automatic search engine, to exclude information that does not satisfy a group of filtering conditions and to store information or its addresses that satisfy said group of filtering conditions into said knowledge base memory means; and a searching condition connection module to compare the search conditions as input by one user for one search and/or the corresponding filtering conditions, with the respective groups of search conditions and/or the corresponding filtering conditions of prior searches, and to provide to said one user information files and/or addresses of information resulted from or names of users who conducted searches corresponding to such search conditions and/or filtering conditions, when result of such comparison is “relative”. The information filter module of this invention comprises a filtering condition generation means that automatically generates and/or modifies a group of information filtering conditions, according to codes or values that were given by said one user in relating to a particular plurality of information files and according to at least a part of the content of said information files. This invention also provides an automatic operation method for the automatic knowledge management system.

Claims

1. An automatic knowledge management system, comprising:

a knowledge base management module to accessibly store knowledge information in particular file formats or related file addresses into its knowledge base memory means;

an automatic search engine to execute the searching instructions of users to search searchable information in a wide filed knowledge base according to certain search conditions;

an information filter module to identify information resulted from the searching of said automatic search engine, to exclude information that does not satisfy a group of filtering conditions and to store information or its addresses that satisfy said group of filtering conditions into said knowledge base memory means; and

a searching condition connection module to compare the search conditions as input by one user for one search and/or the corresponding filtering conditions, with the respective groups of search conditions and/or their corresponding filtering conditions previously stored, and to provide to said one user information files and/or addresses of information files resulted from previous searching operations corresponding to such search conditions and/or filtering conditions, when result of such comparison is “

relative”

.

2. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 1, wherein said knowledge base memory means of said knowledge base management module comprises an adjustable classification tree structure.

3. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 1, wherein said automatic search engine searches knowledge information according to a predetermined schedule.

4. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 1, wherein said information filter module comprises a filtering condition generation means that automatically generates and/or modifies a group of information filtering conditions, according to codes or values that were given by said one user in relating to a particular plurality of information files and according to at least a part of the content of said information files.

5. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 4, wherein said part of the content of said information files comprises terms that exist in said information files with relative high frequencies.

6. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 4, wherein said information filtering conditions comprise terms that may exist in an information file and their respective relation values to said search conditions.

7. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 5, wherein said information filtering conditions comprise terms that may exist in an information file and their respective relation values to said search conditions and said information identification process of said information filter module includes calculation of sum of the number of existence in an information file for respective terms of the filtering conditions, times their respective relation values.

8. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 1, wherein said information filter conditions comprises inference rules.

9. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 1, further comprising a semantic analyzer to convert said search conditions and/or said information filter conditions into machine-executable instructions, if said conditions are made in a semantic description.

10. The automatic knowledge management system according to claim 1, further comprising an automatic alert module to automatically generate an alert signal, when an information file that satisfy certain alert conditions is obtained as a result of said automatic search of said automatic search engine.