System and Method of a Knowledge Management and Networking Environment

• US 20090077062A1
• Filed: 10/18/2007
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fiver LLC
• Original Assignee: VCVC III LLC (Vulcan, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jones, Chris, Royal, Peter, Tucker, Lew, Wissner, Jim, White, Scott, Spivack, Nova
• Granted Patent: US 8,868,560 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

Systems and methods of a knowledge management networking are disclosed here. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of hosting a web-space having a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects to include one or more of, representations of a set of users, a set of web-items, and a set of nets; wherein a net of the set of nets is a subset of the web-space comprising a sub-plurality of the plurality of objects. One embodiment can include, tracking an explicit relationship between a first set of at least two objects of the set of objects; the explicit relationship to be pre-determined by a user of the set of users, identifying an implicit relationship between a second set of at least two objects of the set of objects; the implicit relationship to be identified based on a semantic relationship between the at least two objects, and determining a default set of privacy rules governing access between the at least two objects based on one or more of the identified explicit relationship and the implicit relationship.

Claims

1. A method of knowledge management networking, the knowledge management networking method comprising:

hosting a web-space having a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects to include one or more of, representations of a set of users, a set of web-items, and a set of nets;

wherein a net of the set of nets is a subset of the web-space comprising a sub-plurality of the plurality of objects;

tracking an explicit relationship between a first set of at least two objects of the set of objects;

the explicit relationship to be pre-determined by a user of the set of users;

identifying an implicit relationship between a second set of at least two objects of the set of objects;

the implicit relationship to be identified based on a semantic relationship between the at least two objects; and

determining a default set of privacy rules governing access between the at least two objects based on one or more of the identified explicit relationship and the implicit relationship.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying semantic metadata of the plurality of objects in the web-space, the semantic metadata to be identified from one or more of, user metadata of the set of users, web-item metadata of the set of web-items, and net metadata of the set of nets.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising automatically identifying semantic tags from the semantic metadata via one or more of Natural Language Processing, entity extraction, and ontological classification.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising one or more of identifying semantic tags based on one or more of an identified topic of content of the plurality of objects and user specification and comparing the semantic tags with one or more knowledge databases.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of web-items include one or more of, an email, a bookmark, a web-page, an RSS/Atom, a document, a text file, a video file, an audio file, a contact, data records, applications, and data exported from other applications.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising, automatically identifying one or more of the set of web-items from a user device of a particular user of the set of users.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, further identifying the implicit relationship based on one or more of a keyword match and a social link;

wherein the social link comprises a semantic social link.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the explicit relationship comprises one or more of, a connection between two users of the set of users in the web-space having a pre-determined relationship, an association of a given user with a web-item in the web-space when the given user requests to add the web-item to the web-space, and an association of a specific user with a net, wherein the association of the specific user with the net includes one or more of, creation of the net by the specific user and membership of the specific user in the net.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising, a method of the net, the net method comprising:

in response to receiving a request from an administrator user, creating a first net in the web-space;

the user to be designated as having a membership status of an administrative member of the first net;

associating one or more web-items with the first net responsive to a request of the net administrator;

setting membership criteria of the first net governing user association with the first net, the membership criteria to be specifiable by the net administrator;

setting access rights of the web-items in the first net to be one or more of a pre-determined set of tiered access levels, the access rights to be specifiable by the net administrator based on the memberships status of users;

associating a user with the first net, in response to receiving a request from one or more of the net administrator and the user, the request for membership from the user to be granted when in compliance with the membership criteria;

the user to be designated as having a membership status of a member of the first net; and

presenting a web-item of the first net to a requesting party, responsive to a request from the requesting party when in compliance with the access right of the web-item, the requesting party to be one or more of the administrative member, a member, and a visitor of the first net.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising, in response to receiving a request from a requesting party, associating one or more web-items with the first net when in compliance with the access rights;

the compliance to be determined based on one or more of a user metadata and membership status of the requesting party;

the requesting party to be one or more of the administrative member, a member, and a visitor of the first net

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the pre-determined set of tiered access levels include one or more of a private level, a group level, and a public level.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising, a method of semantic social linking, the semantic social linking method comprising:

identifying a first set of web-items and a first set of nets having one or more of the explicit relationship and implicit relationship with a first user;

identifying a first set of semantic tags, the first set of semantic tags to be determined from metadata of the first set of web-items, metadata of the first set of nets, and user metadata of the first user;

searching the plurality of objects in the web-space for a second set of web-items and a second set of nets having a second set of semantic tags that are semantically related to the first set of semantic tags; and

identifying a second set of users having one or more of the explicit relationship and implicit relationship with one or more of the second set of web-items and the second set of nets;

wherein the first user and the second set of users are semantically socially linked.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising, searching the user metadata of the set of users in the web-space for a third set of semantic tags that are semantically related to the first set of semantic tags and identifying a third set of users having one or more of the explicit relationship and implicit relationship with one or more of a third set of web-items and a third set of nets associated with the third set of semantic tags, the third set of users to be semantically socially linked with the first user.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising identifying a first set of keywords from the metadata of the first set of web-items, metadata of the first set of nets, and user metadata of the first user.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising, a method of targeted searching, the targeted searching method comprising:

receiving a request for one or more objects related to a search query submitted by a search user of the set of users;

the request to further include a request to perform the search query among a set of socially connected users having a predetermined social relationship;

identifying the set of socially connected users having the predetermined social relationship; and

generating a set of search results via searching the objects associated with the set of users having the predetermined social relationship to identify the one or more objects having a relationship with the search query;

wherein the relationship is one or more of a keyword match and a semantic link.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising, ranking the set of search results via:

determining a social distance between the search user and at least one socially connected user of the set of socially connected users having an object that is related to the search query;

wherein the social distance is proportional to the degree of social separation between the search user and the at least one socially connected user.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising, a method of push-model based sharing, the push-model based method comprising:

automatically identifying to a first user, indication that one or more objects associated with a second user of potential interest to the first user are present;

relaying a request made by the first user to access the one or more objects to the second user; and

presenting the one or more objects to the first user upon receiving an authorization of the second user.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the indication is presented via partial visibility of the one or more objects, and wherein the partial visibility status is elect-able by the second user associated with the one or more objects.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the partial visibility status of the one or more objects is the default status granted by the second user to another user not having one or more of a predetermined type of social relationships with the second user.

20. A knowledge database method, comprising:

creating a knowledge database associated with a web-space comprising a networking environment;

the web-space comprising one or more of representations of service subscribers and web-content;

storing a predetermined set of ontologies in the knowledge database; and

maintaining an update-able set of taxonomies based on identified tags in the web-space.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising, storing in the knowledge database, a set of questions asked by one or more service subscribers, and at least one answer to a question of the set of questions provided by another user.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising, providing a ratings system for service subscribers to rate the at least one answer to the question and storing the ratings in the knowledge database.

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising, storing in the knowledge database, one or more of facts and statistics provided by the service subscribers.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising, storing and updating in the knowledge database, products and service listings, the products and service listings to be semantically tagged and are semantically linkable to one or more of the services subscribers and the web-content in the web-space.

25. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed perform a method, comprising:

hosting a web-space having a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects to include one or more of, representations of a set of users, a set of web-items, and a set of nets;

wherein a net of the set of nets is a subset of the web-space comprising a sub-plurality of the plurality of objects;

tracking an explicit relationship between a first set of at least two objects of the set of objects;

the explicit relationship to be pre-determined by a user of the set of users;

identifying an implicit relationship between a second set of at least two objects of the set of objects;

the implicit relationship to be identified based on a semantic relationship between the at least two objects; and

determining a default set of privacy rules governing access between the at least two objects based on one or more of the identified explicit relationship and the implicit relationship.