Document data processor for an object-oriented knowledge management system containing a personal database in communication with a packet processor

• US 5,806,068 A
• Filed: 12/13/1996
• Issued: 09/08/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Steven M Shaw, Venson M. Shaw
• Original Assignee: Steven M Shaw, Venson M. Shaw
• Inventors: Shaw, Venson M., Shaw, Steven M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Corrielus, Jean M.
• Application Number:
  US08/766,280
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 395/614, 395/605, 395/200.09, 395/800
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4887 involving deadlines, e.g. rate based, periodic
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/60 Memory management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32502 in systems having a plurality of input or output devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/42 characterised by implementation details or hardware specially adapted for video compression or decompression, e.g. dedicated software implementation H04N19/635 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0086 Image transceiver H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 : Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 : Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

A document data processor for an object-oriented knowledge management system including a packet processor in communication with a personal database. The packet processor includes an object interface in communication with an external user, an application programming interface and a coprocessor. The packet processor includes a means for establishing a behavioral model as well as a means for stack operation of the personal database.

Claims

1. A document data processor for an object-oriented knowledge management system comprising:

personal database for storing, updating and retrieving personal knowledge content;

packet processor in communication with said personal database, said packet processor including an object interface for receiving said personal knowledge content from an external user, an application programming interface and/or a coprocessor, said packet processor further including a means for establishing a behavioral model of said personal knowledge content, including a class-net list organized at a sequence of class-descriptors with associated pointers to a prior source descriptor and to a next hierarchical descriptor of said personal knowledge content, said packet processor further including a means for stack operation of said personal database including a single or plurality of a class-library for storing said class descriptors and said pointers, said packet processor further including an object correlator for performing correlation in said database, said packet processor further including a means for assigning each class-library element to a unique object-identifier, said packet processor further provided with a means for selecting the appropriate set of object-identifiers in said personal database.

2. A system for a distributed document communication comprising:

external environment means for sensitizing/receiving user and/or application requirements;

personal database means for continuously acquiring and updating personal knowledge content, said personal database connected to said external environment means for selecting/identifying a suitable list of the subject of interest from said personal database means for conforming with said user and/or application requirement;

query/search means connected to said personal database means for converting said suitable list of subject of interest to a hierarchical subject procedure, said query/search means embedded within a communications protocol procedure, an operating system procedure, and/or a database query procedure to perform remote query and to search for the proper document conforming with said suitable list of subject of interest;

document input and evaluation means for receiving or retrieving the document segment by segment, said document input and evaluation means further evaluating each segment of the document to conform with a subject of interest; and

bandwidth control means connected to said document input and evaluation means for determining/adjusting the internal format, compression ratio, frame rate, and display resolution for each segment of said document, whenever the shortage of transmission, processing, and/or storage bandwidth occurs.

3. A system in accordance with claim 2, further comprising:

packet processor;

runtime environment means connected to said packet processor for acquiring a plurality of run time user and/or application requirement, for determining a change in said run time environment;

subject means connected to said run time environment means and said personal database means for acknowledging said run time user and/or application requirement and identifying a suitable list of subjects to correspond with said run time environment, said subject means further producing an alternative list of subjects to correspond with each of said change of said runtime environment, wherein said list of subjects can be organized hierarchically such that each subject becomes logically related to the subjects at its upper/lower level; and

classification means connected to said subject means for identifying a local variable as representing an individual user/application'"'"'s subject of interest, and a global variable as representing a common user/applications'"'"'s subject of interest.