Portals and doors for the semantic web and grid

• US 7,792,836 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Issued: 09/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brain Health Alliance Inc.
• Original Assignee: Global Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Taswell, Carl
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen; Syling
• Application Number:
  US11/859,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20080313229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• Field of Search: 707/706, 707/713, 707/722, 707/737, 707/736, 707/758, 707/781, 707/791, 707/802, 707/822, 707/827, 707/999.002, 707/999.003, 707/999.01, 707/999.107, 709/217, 709/218, 709/202, 709/203, 709/219, 705/23, 705/26
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

A Domain Ontology Oriented Resource System (DOORS) and a Problem Oriented Registry of Tags And Labels (PORTAL) are infrastructure systems for resource metadata within a paradigm serving as a bridge between the original web and the semantic web. IRIS registers domain names while DNS publishes domain addresses with mapping of names to addresses for the original web. Analogously, PORTAL registers resource labels and tags while DOORS publishes resource locations and descriptions with mapping of labels to locations for the semantic web. They provide an analogous resource label system, semantic search applications, and the benefits of collaborative semantic networks. Advertising is supported in several ways. Businesses purchase the right to display their products or services in association with searches. Also, content providers accept placement of advertising. Ads are then selected for display based on the content displayed utilizing the invention to match service providers with advertisers.

Claims

1. A method for operating a distributed network system of internet client-server devices for resource metadata management, comprising:

providing a metadata representation for each of a plurality of resources, wherein said each of the resources is an entity including an item comprising a unique uniform resource identifier (URI), a person, an organization, a publication, a product, an event, or an activity;

registering said each of the resource entities at one of a plurality of registries, wherein said each of the registered resource entities is identified by a globally unique URI;

publishing said each of the resource entities at one of a plurality of directories, wherein said each of the registered and identified resource entities is specified with a location and description;

receiving two or more queries by a query parser,

determining, by the query parser, at least one of the two or more queries is a non-semantic query and at least one of the remaining of queries is a semantic query;

forwarding, by the query parser, the at least one non-semantic query to the registries, wherein the registries are configured to manage and publish non-semantic metadata;

forwarding, by the query parser, the at least one remaining semantic query only to the directories, wherein the directories are configured to manage and publish semantic metadata, wherein the semantic metadata is in resource description framework (RDF) or web ontology language (OWL) format;

identifying a metadata record within the metadata of the one of the registries for a selected resource entity of the resource entities in response to the at least non-semantic query;

identifying a metadata record within the metadata of the one of the directories for the selected resource entity of the resource entities in response to the remaining semantic query;

performing searching for the at least one non-semantic query for one or more of the resource entities across at least one of the registries to at least one of the directories;

performing searching for the at least one remaining semantic query for one or more of the resource entities across at least one of the directories to at least one of the registries.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the semantic metadata is in a triple format equivalent to the RDF format via a mapping.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the non-semantic metadata is in free text, hypertext markup language (HTML), extensible markup language (XML), or non-triple format.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

performing cross-linking between the resource entities via a mapping.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing control of the distribution of the metadata records under a hierarchy of authoritative and non-authoritative servers in response to the at least non-semantic query or the remaining semantic query.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the hierarchy is configured to enable the administrator of each of the registries to maintain local control based on the policies and rules defined by the administrator.

7. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

selecting an advertisement in response to a search performed at any of the registries or directories of said resource metadata management system;

displaying the advertisement to a user;

billing an advertiser associated with the advertisement.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

selecting an advertisement by analyzing a content from a content provider in order to identify a set of one or more resources registered in said system that are most relevant to the advertisement;

displaying the selected advertisement in proximity to the content from the content provider;

billing an advertiser associated with the advertisement.