Knowledge Management System also known as Computer Machinery for Knowledge Management

• US 20170344886A1
• Filed: 05/25/2016
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Tse-Kin Tong
• Original Assignee: Tse-Kin Tong
• Inventors: Tong, Tse-Kin
• Application Number:
  US15/163,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20170344886A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes

Abstract

This Knowledge Management (hereafter referred as KM) System provides a unified portal and platform for the following purposes:

• A. Capture, organize, maintain and retrieve knowledge.
• B. Provide features and functions for knowledge specification, authentication, classification, storage, validation, version control, date and time stamping, linkage and attachment etc.
• C. Enable authors to publish their knowledge on Internet, Intranet, or other similar platform.
• D. Provide functions to extract knowledge from, or simply link to, articles or other forms of documentation.
• E. Open to the targeted user groups to add on their knowledge.
• F. Enable appointed librarian to catalogue knowledge.
• G. Allow knowledge seeker to find and learn knowledge.

Basic designed functions include the following:

• Document various relationships (both natural and artificial) among Subjects, Perspective, and Knowledge. In this aspect, this KM System functions as an organizational tool.
• Document brief presentation to promote preliminary or high level understanding of each piece of knowledge. Such documentation will be Subject and Perspective oriented, including brief explanation, similarities, alternatives, analogies, contraries, oppositions etc. In this aspect, this KM System functions as an abstraction tool.
• Include linkages to more detailed information for in-depth appreciation and understanding of each piece of knowledge. In this aspect, this KM System functions as an integration tool.

There will be three different versions of this KM System. One version is open to the public to manage public knowledge. Another version is for organizations and business sectors to manage organizational or professional knowledge. The third version is for education/training institutes to store and transfer knowledge.

In general, this KM System is designed to bring the following benefits to the users and stakeholders:

• Capture, catalogue, and integrate information to form knowledge
• Provide a platform for easy knowledge publication and research
• Provide an integration point for all information providers
• Enhance collaboration that is knowledge based
• Provide a background and platform for Knowledge Extension and ultimately Intelligence Management

This KM System ultimately functions as a universal and unified portal to all knowledge documented in the hosting network and connected inter-networks. The overall design is to ensure that such a portal is efficient for both knowledge authors and seekers. Applications will be developed based on this KM System and some are included in this document.

Claims

1. The embodiments of a Knowledge Management (KM) System of Computer Application in which exclusive property or privilege claims are described in this patent application and summarized below.

Claim on Subject and Object Structure with the following characteristics or features:

Multi-level and multi-dimensional Subject Space with many-to-many relationships among Subjects,

Categorization of Subjects with specific meaning for each category leading to different knowledge interpretations and usages,

Presentation of Subject Structure in various graphical formats selectable by users.

Positioning of Information Objects in the Subject Space with many-to-many relationships between Subjects and Objects,

Inclusion of Knowledge Objects with information used by humans or machineries, and driving interactions between humans and machineries,

Store precise and concise information as Knowledge Objects, that may be broken down into multiple levels, with multiple components in each level,

Objects may include sub-typing by specialization and/or component parts,

Objects may have Attribute Values of Attribute Types that represent internal Subject Space of similar Objects,

Different Object Types may lead to different interpretations/presentations of Object contents,

Structure Knowledge Objects with various levels of details, to provide high level abstraction or summary that link to lower level details,

Use the described system to store, maintain, and retrieve various types of knowledge in multi-media, and to interact with users in various forms, formats, and languages,

Grow and expand the information encapsulated in Knowledge Objects, through linkages to other information sites.

Claim on Relationship between Subjects and Objects with the following characteristics or features;

Position every Knowledge Object in the Subject Space, by relating Objects to Subjects,

Dual rules, as Object and Subject, of a piece of information represented by a Subject/Object Name that can be a word or a phrase,

The same Name of the above may mean different Knowledge Object, or contain different information when position at a different location of the Subject Space (by relationships with different sets of Subjects),

Data Base Management Software that is based on Subject and Object orientation,

Subjects and Objects together can record intelligence in Decision Models for Decision Support in the future.

Claims on Applications and Usages with the following characteristics or features;

Setup and operate a unified KM System that functions as e-library,

Described machineries and processes that develop, implement, promote, operate and finance a unified KM System in the Internet domain to be used by the general public,

Operate this KM System in organizational setting, for any aspect of management in both the public sector and the private sector,

Use this KM System for professional/vocational training and academic education,

Turn existing tagging into multi-dimensional Subject Structure described in this document,

Convert existing large piece of information into a preliminary version of new and smaller Knowledge Objects and improve on its content, structure and relationships gradually,

Machineries and processes to integrate existing pieces of information and knowledge to form a unified KM System,

Use this KM System as knowledge publication tool for authors, general public, and organizations,

Design of this KM System for editors or librarians to do their jobs in editing both Knowledge Objects Structures and Subject Structures,

Design to document fictional knowledge as a separate Subject, and to write interactive and multi-media novels based on this multi-dimensional KM System,

Building of applications or implied processing functions on this KM System and driven by knowledge captured in the System (some examples are described in this patent application),

Run application software on this KM System by adding training materials, user information, processing menu, date/time scheduling, and procedures, to guide the users through related knowledge,

Use this KM System to perform various business activities including advertising, publishing knowledge, e-business, training and support services.

Note;

This KM System makes no claim to include or rely on any particular existing technology as a necessary condition to implement this KM System. Actually, a good implementation of this KM System should allow proper interfaces to work with any set of selected technologies. This KM System should also be structured in a way so that it can evolve over time and work with future technologies.