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System and method for notifying users of changes in multi-relational ontologies

  • US 20060074833A1
  • Filed: 05/05/2005
  • Published: 04/06/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In a computer-implemented system including one or more multi-relational ontologies, wherein each multi-relational ontology includes a plurality of assertions, each assertion comprising a first concept, a second concept, and a relationship between the first concept and the second concept, a method for providing alerts to users upon changes to the one or more multi-relational ontologies, the method comprising:

  • enabling a user to create a user profile, wherein the user profile includes one or more preferences to be used in notifying the user of changes in one or more multi-relational ontologies;

    monitoring the one or more multi-relational ontologies for one or more changes;

    determining whether the one or more changes meet minimum requirements of the one or more preferences of the user profile;

    initiating an outbound communication to the user based on contact information specified by the user in the user profile if the one or more changes meet the minimum requirements of the one or more preferences of the user profile;

    notifying the user of the one or more changes in the one or more multi-relational ontologies according to the user profile by including information regarding the one or more changes in the outbound communication.

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