UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND DESKTOP SEARCH SYSTEM

• US 20100030734A1
• Filed: 07/18/2006
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OnePatont Software Limited
• Original Assignee: Rathod Yogesh Chunilal
• Inventors: Chunilal, Rathod Yogesh
• Granted Patent: US 7,991,764 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1837 Management specially adapted to peer-to-peer storage networks topology management mechanisms of peer-to-peer networks H04L67/1042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2428 Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms G06F16/2423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/384 : using social networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/386 : using messaging services or messaging apps using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS G06Q20/3255
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 : Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0243 : Comparative campaigns
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0249 : based upon budgets or funds
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 : Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 : based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 : based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 : Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 : Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 : Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 : for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 : Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 : Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 : using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 : Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 : Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 : for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 : Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/061 : for key exchange, e.g. in peer-to-peer networks cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key agreement H04L9/0838
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 : in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 : Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1074 : for supporting data block transmission mechanisms file transfer H04L67/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 : User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 : involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 : Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 : Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 : Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module.

Claims

1-457. -457. (canceled)

458. A method for facilitating information searching and sharing across a network, the method comprising the steps of:

implementing an application for searching and sharing on a plurality of distributed user devices, each user device having a local database and an application for communication, collaboration, searching and sharing desktop resources, services, user generated data structures and contents;

a plurality of distributed application servers for delivering expert services including human services and applications on the user devices that are registered to said application servers;

providing a central controller for controlling a plurality of processes involved in said information searching and sharing;

registering the user devices to the central controller and also to a plurality of distributed application servers for receiving service applications on the user devices;

registering one or more application servers to the remaining application servers for carrying out the processes involved in said information searching and sharing comprising human services federation and collaboration;

allowing a user to send his/her queries across the network for;

retrieving information from a plurality of sources including local databases and desktop resources across the network,

receiving subject specific and categorized human services comprising federated human services and the service applications, and

sharing information stored on the local database of his/her user-device;

updating data related to said processes in a central database;

wherein the information and the application services being delivered to the users are based upon knowledge of relevant experts.

459. The method as in claim 458 wherein the central controller controls processes of registrations and maintains metadata of each user device and each application server.

460. The method as in claim 458 wherein the processes of registrations are based on a search, the search result of which is a list of other user devices and application servers to which any user device and application server want to register.

461. The method as in claim 458 wherein the application servers include developers, experts (Human Agents), service providers, artificial intelligent (AI) agents, and brokers.

462. The method as in claim 458 wherein each of the user devices and application servers communicate and share information in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment.

463. The method as in claim 462 wherein the central controller discovers a peer user device and coordinates between the user devices during peer-to-peer communication.

464. The method as in claim 458 wherein any user-device searching for one or more application services downloads the required application service from a nearest peer user device that had previously downloaded the said application service.

465. The method as in claim 458 wherein the processes involved in said information searching and sharing include synchronization of information and knowledge of relevant experts.

466. The method as in claim 458, wherein the processes involved in said information searching and sharing include monitoring and keeping track of multiple queries from the users.

467. The method as in claim 458, wherein the processes involved in said information searching and sharing include administrative settings such as locking, unlocking, reporting and analyzing the events of searching and sharing.

468. The method as in claim 458, wherein the queries include requests, complaints, feedbacks and any of the user-device malfunctioning information.

469. The method as in claim 458, wherein the updated data of the central database includes taxonomy classification, shared ontologies, semantic syntax, metadata syntax, structures and standards.

470. The method as in claim 458, wherein the central database is synchronized with each of user device either partially or in full and each user device downloads required information from said central database.

471. The method as in claim 458, wherein the distributed controllers devise a plurality of ontology and taxonomies directories related to URL, queries, answers, massages, emails, contents, structures of the system, survey forms, advertisements, social network, federated human services, software products, AI agents, web services, publications etcetera.

472. The method as in claim 458, wherein each of the user devices downloads one or more taxonomies from the taxonomy directory and searches using one or more keywords from said directory.

473. The method as in claim 458, wherein process involved in the searching and sharing includes search parsing schemes that involve attaching recipient'"'"'s address, one or more networks, wide area networks, World Wide Web.

474. The method as in claim 458, wherein the user devices are provided with facilities including emailing, chatting, messaging, faxing, telephoning, VOIP.

475. The method as in claim 458, wherein the process of searching and sharing includes displaying a list of required application servers and user devices alongwith service or product parameters thereof including rank, grade, namespace, no of hits, packages payment terms, metadata, location, associated taxonomy, service name, description, and service usage details.

476. The method as in claim 458 further comprising the steps of:

allowing a user to send his/her search related queries to the central controller;

enabling the central controller to select one or more user devices and/or application servers as the source of information and send queries to matched user devices for searching desktop resources;

search and match all desktop resources with searcher'"'"'s keywords;

seeking permission from the selected sources to share their own desktop resources information;

allowing the user to retrieve information from the selected source that grants permission.

477. The method as in claim 458 further comprising the steps of:

creating a taxonomy wise universal database structure having a plurality of universal fields and attributes;

allowing a user to create local database structure having a plurality of domain or subject specific fields and attributes;

allowing the user to federate his/her local database structure with the universal database structure;

updating the universal database structure by the central controller;

inputting data to structured and relational local databases;

sharing local database information data with other local database users.

478. The method as in claim 458 further comprising the steps of:

allowing a user to generate one or more keyword or subject specific search macros comprising federated search macros;

allowing the user to retrieve a search result based on the search macros;

allowing the user to analyze the search-result based on his/her knowledge and expertise to create a re-usable search result;

allowing other users and application servers to retrieve one or more re-usable search results of the corresponding search macros.

479. A system for facilitating information searching and sharing across a communication network, the system comprising:

a plurality of distributed user devices, each user device having a local database and an application for searching and sharing desktop resources, services, user generated data structures and contents;

a plurality of distributed application servers for expert services including human services and applications on the user devices that are registered to said application servers;

a central controller for allowing the user devices and the application servers to register with said central controller for controlling a plurality of processes involved in said information searching and sharing;

registering one or more application servers to the remaining application servers for carrying out the processes involved in said information searching and sharing comprising human services federation and collaboration;

a central database containing updated data related to said processes;

wherein upon sending queries from the user devices across the network, a user;

retrieves information from a plurality of sources including local databases and desktop resources across the network,

receives subject specific and categorized human services comprising federated human services and the service applications, and

shares information stored on the local database of his/her user-device,

and wherein the information and the application services being delivered to the users are based upon knowledge of relevant experts.

480. A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium for facilitating information searching and sharing across a network, the computer program product comprising computer instructions for:

implementing an application for searching and sharing on a plurality of distributed user devices, each user device having a local database and an application for communication, collaboration, searching and sharing desktop resources, services, user generated data structures and contents;

a plurality of distributed application servers for delivering expert services including human services and applications on the user devices that are registered to said application servers;

providing a central controller for controlling a plurality of processes involved in said information searching and sharing;

registering the user devices to the central controller and also to a plurality of distributed application servers for receiving service applications on the user devices;

registering one or more application servers to the remaining application servers for carrying out the processes involved in said information searching and sharing comprising human service federation and collaboration;

allowing a user to send his/her queries across the network for;

retrieving information from a plurality of sources including local databases and desktop resources across the network,

receiving the distributed domain or subject specific categorized human services comprising federated human services and the service applications, and

sharing information stored on the local database of his/her user-device;

updating data related to said processes in a central database;

wherein the information and the application services being delivered to the users are based upon knowledge of relevant experts.