PERSONALIZATION OF CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT COMPUTER CONTENT

• US 20090182770A1
• Filed: 01/12/2009
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PointCross, Inc.
• Original Assignee: PointCross, Inc.
• Inventors: Madhavan, Suresh
• Application Number:
  US12/352,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20090182770A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/289 Object oriented databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

An organization defined as a collection of contexts having associated roles and objects is disclosed. In one implementation, a common computing system can maintain the contexts and associated roles and objects and provide data to personal systems. In another implementation, personal systems can maintain a subset of the data to assist in indexing.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a taxonomy tree that includes classifications of various roles found in an organization;

a roles tree that includes entries associated with roles that can be associated with contexts;

a contexts tree that includes entries associated with the contexts;

an objects tree that includes objects associated with the contexts;

a role-context manager coupled to the taxonomy tree, the roles tree, and the contexts tree;

an object manager coupled to the role-context manager, the contexts tree, and the objects tree;

wherein, in operation,

the role-context manager compares a word found in an object with the taxonomy tree and the roles tree to identify a role with which to associate the object;

the role-context manager compares a characteristic associated with the object to identify one or more contexts from the contexts tree for the identified role;

the object manager stores the object in the objects tree in association with the role and the one or more contexts.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the role-context manager and the object manager are distributed across a plurality of federated agents that are respectively associated with the contexts.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising an actions application programming interface (API) coupling a federated agent of the federated agents to an actions database that includes tasks that can be performed by the federated agent.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a content analysis engine that finds the word in the object.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a content analysis engine that determines the characteristic associated with the object from meta-data associated with the object.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein a unique object identifier associated with the object is stored in association with each of the one or more contexts.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the object is a second object, wherein the second object includes tracked-changes to a first object.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the second object replaces the first object in storage when the object manager stores the second object.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the second object is stored in association with the first object when the object manager stores the second object.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an interface, coupled to the role-context manager, that includes a module that interprets a command structure for transmitting and receiving the object.

11. A method comprising:

receiving an object associated with an entity at a personal computing system associated with the entity;

identifying a role for the entity;

identifying a context in which the entity has the role;

contextualizing the object;

storing the contextualized object on the personal computing system;

transmitting the contextualized object from the personal computing system to a common computing system.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising indexing the contextualized object.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising verifying the entity has a sufficient level of security access to the object before transmitting the object to the common computing system.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising waiting while the personal computing system is offline, wherein the transmitting occurs when the personal computing system is online.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the contextualizing the object at the personal computing system is in lieu of contextualizing the object, at least for the identified context, at the common computing system.

16. A system comprising:

a common business ontology system including;

an organization database;

an objects database;

an agent engine coupled to the organization database and objects database;

a pertinence engine coupled to the agent engine;

an object provider coupled to the pertinence engine;

wherein, in operation,

the agent engine uses an entity identifier, associated with an entity, from a personal computing system to find a context and a role of the entity in the context in the organization database;

the agent identifies objects associated with the role and the context in the objects database;

the pertinence engine identifies a subset of the objects as pertinent objects;

the object provider provides the pertinent objects to the personal computing system.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising a resource-constrained personal system associated with the entity.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the pertinence engine identifies an object as pertinent because the object is relevant within a time interval for which an entity will be disconnected from the common computing system.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the pertinence engine identifies the pertinent objects using, at least in part, a preference associated with the entity.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the pertinence engine identifies the pertinent objects using, at least in part, a configuration by a human or software agent.