SEMANTICALLY REPRESENTING A TARGET ENTITY USING A SEMANTIC OBJECT

• US 20150304400A1
• Filed: 04/22/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fiver LLC
• Original Assignee: VCVC III LLC (Vulcan, Inc.)
• Inventors: Spivack, Nova T., Thorisson, Kristinn R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,033,799 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/048 Fuzzy inferencing
• 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: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99946 Object-oriented database structure network

Abstract

A data construct called a semcard is a semantic (meaning-based) software object including semantic meta-tags and meta-data that describes a target object or thing. A target object can be any type of digital or physical entity or identifier, or it can be tacit knowledge, such as ideas, concepts, processes or other data existing in a user'"'"'s mind, provided that the user represents this knowledge in the semcard. A semcard embodies information about its own structure-rules, history, state, policies and goals regarding automation, display, access permissions, sharing and other operations of the semcard and any optional target object. It can also represent a semantic link between two semcards, or a semantically typed link or a standard Web hyperlink between a semcard and its referent target. A collection of semcards represents a knowledge network; single semcards, and knowledge networks, can be browsed, shared, searched, disseminated, manipulated, displayed, organized, and stored.

Claims

1. A system for semantically representing a digital object using a semantic object, comprising,

a network component,

wherein the network component manages data received by and transmitted from the system;

an identity manager coupled to the network component,

wherein the identity manager manages identities of a set of users and user groups of the system, and

wherein the identity manager further specifies an author of the semantic object, the author of the semantic object being associated with a first metadata entry of the semantic object;

an automation component coupled to the identity manager,

wherein the automation component determines an access policy that specifies how the semantic object is shared over a network, the access policy being associated with a second metadata entry of the semantic object; and

a router module coupled to the automation component,

wherein the routing module routes the semantic object over the network to another user in accordance with the access policy.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a fuzzy matching engine for estimating a conception distance between semantic objects.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a test post facility for testing semantic objects before the semantic objects are posted on the web.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the automation component determines how to interact with one of the users or user groups based on a knowledge base of user-interaction methods.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising

a relationship component coupled to the identity manager,

wherein the relationship component manages data relating to all relationships between the users and user groups and data necessary to communicate securely among the users and user groups.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising

a user interface component,

wherein the user interface component provides a user interface to the system having a hierarchical list of entry points.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein each of the entry points corresponds to a specific type data feeds, a hardware element of a computer system, or a semantic context.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the semantic object represents a streaming medium, an advertisement, or a website.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising

a modification manager,

wherein the modification manager tracks a subset of the users who have modified the semantic object, the subset of the users being associated with a third metadata entry of the semantic object.

10. A method performed by a system having a processor and memory of semantically representing a digital object using a semantic object, comprising,

managing data received and transmitted by the system over a network;

managing identities of a set of users and user groups of the system;

associating an author of the semantic object with a first metadata entry of the semantic object;

associating an access policy that determines how the semantic object is shared over the network with a second metadata entry of the semantic object; and

routing the semantic object over the network to another user in accordance with the access policy.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising estimating a conception distance between semantic objects.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising testing the semantic object before posting the semantic object on the web.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising determining how to interact with one of the users or user groups based on a knowledge base of user-interaction methods.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising managing data relating to all relationships between the users and user groups and data necessary to communicate securely among the users and user groups.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing a user interface to the system having a hierarchical list of entry points.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each of the entry points corresponds to a specific type data feeds, a hardware element of a computer system, or a semantic context.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the semantic object represents a streaming medium, an advertisement, or a website.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising associating a subset of the users who have modified the semantic object with a third metadata entry of the semantic object.

19. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying a computer program performing a method of semantically representing a digital object using a semantic object, the method comprising:

managing data received by and transmitted from the system over a network;

managing identities of a set of users and user groups of the system;

specifying an author of the semantic object as a first metadata entry of the semantic object;

designating an access policy related to sharing the semantic object over the network as a second metadata entry of the semantic object; and

sending the semantic object over the network to another user in accordance with the access policy.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, the method further comprising providing a user interface to the system having a hierarchical list of entry points.