PERSONALIZED SCREENING OF CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT CONTENT

• US 20090254546A1
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PointCross, Inc.
• Original Assignee: PointCross, Inc.
• Inventors: Madhavan, Suresh
• Application Number:
  US12/418,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90 Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types

Abstract

A system and method store and locate objects within a business organization. Objects created by individuals are stored in association with a context for which they are created. Security can be used to prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing objects without permission.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a business ontology repository including a taxonomies tree, a contexts tree, and an objects tree;

an index repository, including a taxonomy index and an objects index;

a business ontology agent coupled to the business ontology repository and the index repository;

wherein, in operation,

the business ontology agent receives search criteria from a search engine, identifies a context using the business ontology repository and the index repository for the search criteria, generates context keywords relating the search criteria to the context, generates additional keywords from the taxonomy index, and provides keywords including the context keywords and additional keywords to the search engine;

the search engine searches the objects index for the keywords to generate initial search results including the objects stored in the business ontology repository and stores the initial search results to facilitate generation of pertinent objects associated with the search criteria.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a permission analyzer, wherein in operation the permission analyzer screens the search results for objects that an entity associated with the user device has permission to see and excludes objects that the entity does not have permission to see.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a permission analyzer, wherein in operation, the permission analyzer provides blind search results to an entity having an need to know level of security to view the blind search results.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a roles index is used by the business ontology agent to derive a subset of the additional keywords for searching the objects index.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the context is associated with an individual as a personal context, and the search results include objects pertinent to the individual.

6. A method comprising:

receiving search criteria,

generating context keywords from a business ontology repository using the search criteria;

generating additional keywords from an index repository using the context keywords;

providing the context keywords and additional keywords to a search engine;

screening search results from the search engine for permission to view pertinent objects found by the search engine;

making the pertinent objects available.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a business ontology agent facilitates the generation of context keywords and additional keywords.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the index repository is generated by the business ontology agent using the business ontology repository.

9. A system comprising:

a business ontology repository including a contexts tree and an objects tree;

a business ontology agent coupled to the business ontology repository;

wherein, in operation, the business ontology agent receives a new object, identifies context keywords in the contexts tree for the new object, contextualizes the new object by associating the new object with the context keywords, and stores a reference to the contextualized object within the objects tree;

wherein the context keywords are provided in response to search criteria submitted to the business ontology agent and used to find the contextualized object.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising, searching the taxonomies tree for roles associated with an individual that created the new object.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the object is stored with access to the object restricted to entities having permission to view the object.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the business ontology agent updates an index from the business ontology to reflect the contextualized object.

13. The system of claim 9 wherein permission to view the object is granted to one or more entities having a need to know level of permission associated with the object.

14. A method comprising:

receiving a new object;

contextualizing the new object within a context of a business ontology repository;

storing the contextualized object within the business ontology repository, wherein the contextualized object is integrated into the business ontology;

updating index files to reflect the contextualized object.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising identifying the contextualized object as associated with an entity playing a role in the context.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising identifying a role for the entity by searching a taxonomy tree.

17. The system of claim 14 wherein access to the object is restricted to entities having permission to view the object.

18. The method of claim 14 wherein a business ontology agent stores the object within the business ontology repository.

19. The method of claim 14 wherein a business ontology agent updates an index to reflect the contextualized object.

20. The method of claim 14 further comprising searching for the new object within the index file.