SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING AUDIBLE, VISUAL AND TEXTUAL DATA WITH ALTERNATIVE COMBINABLE MULTIMEDIA FORMS OF PRESENTING INFORMATION FOR REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE USE BY MULTIPLE USERS IN DIFFERENT REMOTE ENVIRONMENTS

• US 6,883,008 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2001
• Issued: 04/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur R. Crivella
• Original Assignee: Ase Edge, Inc.
• Inventors: West, Wayne Jacob, Crivella, Arthur Ray
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Shahid
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLEURANTIN, JEAN B
• Application Number:
  US09/919,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20030028534A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,358 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707100-1041, 707200-206, 704/1, 705/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A system is provided for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with multimedia forms of presenting information for real-time interactive use by multiple users in different remote environments. Library science concepts are utilized to uniformly categorize the information managed by the system, and linguistics concepts are implemented for defining information acquisition, exchange and workflow to permit categorization of the managed information using the library science concept. Managed information is stored in a database according to a unique schema which implements this categorization. Computer technology is combined with the science of media production for presentation of the managed information in various multimedia audible, visual and textual digital forms and formats, and computer software allows the system to work over a computer network to permit interactive, multidirectional, multimedia digital data communications originated from and made instantaneously available anywhere in the world to or from any number of different locations simultaneously.

Claims

1. A system for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with alternative combinable multimedia forms of presenting information to provide real-time interactive knowledge management in support of activities conducted simultaneously by multiple users in different remote locations, comprising receiving, accessing, processing, storing, retrieving, transmitting and utilizing said data to provide said knowledge management over a distributed network of computers, further comprising:

(a) library science means for categorizing said data wherein said categorizing creates a classification profile for at least one element of said data, said profile containing fields of information describing and classifying said element;

(b) linguistics means for defining information acquisition, exchange and workflow to permit said categorization;

(c) database means for storing said data elements according to a schema which implements said categorization;

(d) media production means for representing said data elements in multimedia audible, visual and textual data in digital forms; and

(e) computer software means for implementing said system over a computer network to permit interactive, multidirectional, multimedia digital data communications originated by a user from at least one first location and made available to at least one second location.

3. The system of claim 1 or 2 wherein said database schema provides multiple levels of restricted access to said managed information.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein at least some of said elements are included within at least one category, wherein said category has at least one subcategory implementing said database schema such that said category includes all of the information included in each subcategory associated with said category.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein an element in each category or subcategory is retrievable independent of the information in any other category or subcategory.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein elements containing a common characteristic are retrievable from at least two different categories or subcategories.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the user accesses said categories or subcategories of information from an internet web page having access through a web server to said database.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein said web page contains at least one user executable feature for:

(a) providing access to the most common or most recent information used within a category or subcategory;

(b) retrieval and processing of said data for presentation in each form in which said data is used;

(c) storing the information most commonly used by said user according to a categorization established by said user;

(d) selecting an audible, visual and/or textual broadcast of a designated element of said data according to a selected multimedia format;

(e) combining an element with at least one other element for presentation in at least one broadcast;

(f) searching each category or subcategory for at least one said element;

or

(g) combinations thereof.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said element of subpart (d) or elements of subpart (e) are presented in a combination of audible, visual and/or textual multimedia forms in said broadcast.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein said elements of subpart (e) are combinable into different audible, visual and/or textual multimedia forms in said broadcast.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein said search of subpart (f) is conducted by a match of:

(a) data contained within said item;

(b) identification information for said item;

(c) classification information for said item;

(d) natural language terms;

(e) Boolean operators;

(f) one or more keywords;

or

(g) combinations thereof.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein said search of subpart (f) accommodates inaccuracies created by the search request or digitization of said item.

13. The system of claim 1 or 2 wherein a single element of said data is stored in at least two different locations of said database when said element has been altered from its original form such that each different form of said element is stored in a different location.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein a single element of said data is referred to by more than one designation such that each said designation enables a reference to at least one other designation for said element.

15. The system of claim 1 or 2 wherein said data is continuously and dynamically added or updated by one or multiple said users.

2. A method of using a system for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with alternative combinable multimedia forms of presenting information to provide real-time interactive knowledge management in support of activities conducted simultaneously by multiple users in different remote locations, comprising receiving, accessing, processing, storing, retrieving, transmitting and utilizing said data to provide said knowledge management over a distributed network of computers, wherein said method comprises:

(a) categorizing said data wherein said categorizing creates a classification profile for at least one element of said data, said profile containing fields of information describing and classifying said element utilizing library science techniques;

(b) defining information acquisition, exchange and workflow to permit said categorization utilizing linguistics techniques;

(c) storing said data elements in a database according to a schema which implements said categorization;

(d) representing said data elements in multimedia audible, visual and textual data in digital forms utilizing media production methods; and

(e) implementing said system over a computer network using computer software which permits interactive, multidirectional, multimedia digital data communications originated by a user from at least one first location and made available to at least one second location.