System for interprise knowledge management and automation

• US 20040030421A1
• Filed: 05/23/2003
• Published: 02/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Haley, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 7,606,782 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/49
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a system for managing business knowledge expressed as statements, preferably sentences using a vocabulary, where such statements may be automated by the generation of programming language source code or computer program instructions. As such, the present invention also manages software design specifications that define, describe, or constrain the programming code it generates or programs with which it or the code it generates is to integrate. All information managed within the present invention is maintained within a relational database that is encapsulated within an object-oriented model. Each object in this model is subject to version control and administration using permissions. Each user of the system is an object and belongs to one or more groups. Users and groups may be granted privileges. Objects may be created, examined, used, modified, deleted, or otherwise operated upon only if corresponding permission or privilege has been granted. The vocabulary managed by the present invention consists of the function words commonly used in a language, such as the auxiliary verbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, and other essentially closed parts of speech in English, as well as open parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Claims

1. A system for representing and storing information comprising:

an interface for to receiving said information;

a knowledge manager programmed to represent said information as at least one statement comprising at least one relationship, said relationship instantiating a relation having at least one role and an indefinite concept filling said role; and

a repository in communication with said knowledge manager for storing said represented information.

2. A method for representing and storing information comprising:

receiving said information;

representing said information as at least one statement comprising at least one relationship, said relationship instantiating a relation having at least one role and an indefinite concept filling said role; and

storing said represented information.