Withdrawal of requests of target number of requests responses received

• US 7,203,725 B1
• Filed: 11/01/2000
• Issued: 04/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Tacit Software, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Wang, Eric, Epelman-Wang, Hernan, Gilmour, David, Sanders, Richard Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn; William
• Assistant Examiner(s): MESFIN, YEMANE
• Application Number:
  US09/704,374
• Time in Patent Office: 2,351 Days
• Field of Search: 707/2, 707/3, 707/6, 707/9, 707/10, 709/206, 709/245, 709/203, 709/246
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/00 Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

A method of querying a user profile commences with a first access to a public portion of a knowledge profile for each of a plurality of potential targets of the electronic document, the public portion of each knowledge profile including public knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target of the electronic document. The first access is responsive to a first query received from an originator. A first matching operation is performed between a document term within the electronic document and public knowledge terms within the public portion of each knowledge profile to identify a first set of targets for which a match exists between the document term and at least one public knowledge term. The first set of targets is published to the originator. Responsive to a second query from the originator, the private portion of a knowledge profile for each of the plurality of potential targets of the electronic document is accessed, the private portion of each knowledge profile including private knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target of the electronic document. A second matching operation between the document term within the electronic document and the private knowledge terms within the private portion of each knowledge profile is performed to identify a second set of targets for which a match exists between the document term and at least one private knowledge term. Each target of the second set of targets is then prompted for authorization to be published to the originator.

Claims

1. A method of querying a knowledge profile, comprising:

responsive to a first query, including a query term, from an originator, accessing a public portion of a knowledge profile for each of a plurality of potential targets, the public portion of each knowledge profile including public knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target;

performing a first matching operation between the query term and public knowledge terms within the public portion of each knowledge profile to identify a first set of potential targets for which a match exists between the query term and at least one public knowledge term;

publishing the first set of potential targets to the originator;

responsive to a second query from the originator, accessing a private portion of a knowledge profile for each of the plurality of potential targets, the private portion of each knowledge profile including private knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target;

performing a second matching operation between the query term and the private knowledge terms within the private portion of each knowledge profile to identify a second set of potential targets for which a match exists between the query term and at least one private knowledge term;

prompting each potential target of the second set of potential targets for authorization to be published to the originator; and

using a query expiration parameter to control expiration of the second query.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said query expiration parameter specifies a query expiration interval for the second query.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said query expiration parameter specifies a maximum number of matches with respect to the second query.

4. A machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a process comprising:

responsive to a first query, including a query term, from an originator, accessing a public portion of a knowledge profile for each of a plurality of potential targets, the public portion of each knowledge profile including public knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target;

performing a first matching operation between the query term and public knowledge terms within the public portion of each knowledge profile to identify a first set of potential targets for which a match exists between the query term at least one public knowledge term;

publishing the first set of potential targets to the originator;

responsive to a second query from the originator, accessing a private portion of a knowledge profile for each of the plurality of potential targets, the private portion of each knowledge profile including private knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target;

performing a second matching operation between the query term and the private knowledge terms within the private portion of each knowledge profile to identify a second set of potential targets for which a match exists between the query term and at least one private knowledge term;

prompting each potential target of the second set of potential targets for authorization to be published to the originator; and

using a query expiration parameter to control expiration of the second query.

5. The storage medium of claim 4, wherein said query expiration parameter determines a query expiration interval.

6. The storage medium of claim 4, wherein said query expiration parameter determines a maximum number of matches with respect to the second query.

7. A system for querying a knowledge profile, comprising;

one or more clients to send queries from originators; and

a knowledge server to;

receive queries from any of the clients;

responsive to a first query from one of the clients, including a query term, from an originator, access a public portion of a knowledge profile for each of a plurality of potential targets, the public portion of each knowledge profile including public knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target;

perform a first matching operation between the query term and public knowledge terms within the public portion of each knowledge profile to identify a first set of potential targets for which a match exists between the query term and at least one public knowledge term;

publish the first set of potential targets to the originator;

responsive to a second query from the originator, access a private portion of a knowledge profile for each of the plurality of potential targets of the electronic document, the private portion of each knowledge profile including private knowledge terms indicative of a knowledge base of a potential target;

perform a second matching operation between the query term and the private knowledge terms within the private portion of each knowledge profile to identify a second set of potential targets for which a match exists between the query term and at least one private knowledge term;

prompt each potential target of the second set of potential targets for authorization to be published to the originator; and

using a query expiration parameter to control expiration of the second query.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the query expiration parameter represents a query expiration interval.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the query expiration parameter represents a maximum number of matches with respect to the second query.