Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods

• US 8,010,553 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2007
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AppliedE, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AppliedE, Inc.
• Inventors: Eagan, George, Singh, Prabhdeep
• Primary Examiner(s): LIN, SHEW FEN
• Application Number:
  US11/927,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20080059444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,401 Days
• Field of Search: 707722-780, 707999002-999005, 707/661, 707/723, 707/769
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2272 Management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/242 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A method of extracting knowledge from a knowledge archival and recollection system, comprising the steps of: recognizing a user actuation; initiating a search application; displaying a user search interface; receiving input parameters via the search interface; identifying a query type based on the received input parameters; formulating a database query based on the received input parameters; transmitting the database query to a database; obtaining database query results from the database; providing the database query results to a result analyzer module; and displaying search result analyzer module results to a user.

Claims

1. A method of extracting knowledge from a knowledge archival and recollection system, said method comprising:

recognizing a user actuation on a computer;

initiating a search application;

displaying a user search interface;

receiving input parameters via said search interface, the input parameters including keyword, date range, user activity data, file enhancement, criteria and graph options from the user, the user activity data including data of activity of the user accessing online data, being provided to the computer from a network, and offline data, being locally available on the computer, said file enhancement including annotation and file insertion;

identifying a query type based on said received input parameters;

formulating a database query based on the received input parameters;

transmitting said database query to a database, the database being in communication with a file archive indexer for indexing a file archive for storing files and data regarding said files, the file archive indexer including a front-end indexer for processing queries and a background indexer for generating and updating indexes;

formulating a keyword query based on the keyword;

transmitting the keyword query to the file archive indexer;

obtaining database query results from said database and keyword query results from the file archive indexer, the database storing the user activity data and the file archive storing actual content accessed by the user;

providing result of intersection of said database query results and the keyword query results to a result analyzer module, the result analyzer module generating a rank for each database query result and obtaining a click stream for the each database query result; and

displaying search result analyzer module results to the user, the search result analyzer module results including a customizable user activity report based on the input parameters and the user activity data.

2. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

displaying said click stream visualization module results to a user.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein said actuation is selected from the group consisting of toolbar selection, hot key activation, and context menu selection.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein said input parameters are related to user activity, file content, system information, environment information and file enhancement.

5. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying the intersection as at least one of thumbnails, click stream visualization, archived web-pages, actual online content and file enhancement.

6. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting said database query results, said keyword query results, and said input parameters to a report module; and

providing a report to said user from information obtained from said report module.

7. The method as in claim 1, wherein said query is transmitted to said database server via a database connectivity module according to a protocol selected from the group consisting of ODBC, JDBC and HTTP/PHP.

8. The method as in claim 1, wherein a database connectivity module transmits the query according to a protocol selected from the group consisting of ODBC, JDBC, and HTTP/PHP.

9. The method as in claim 1, further comprising at least one of the steps of:

dynamically modifying said report;

saving a report in memory on a local computer; and

saving said report on a file archive.

10. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of transmitting said report to a mail server.

11. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of dynamically modifying said report.

12. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of saving said report in memory on a local computer.

13. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of saving said report on a file archive.

14. A method of extracting knowledge from an enterprise-wide web knowledge recollection and archival system, said method comprising the steps of:

recognizing a user actuation on a computer;

launching a reporting engine;

receiving report parameters, the report parameters including keyword, date range, user activity data, file enhancement, criteria and graph options from the user, the user activity data including data of activity of the user accessing online data, being provided to the computer from a network, and offline data, being locally available on the computer, said file enhancement including annotation and file insertion;

formulating a database query based on the received report parameters;

configuring a report generator according to the report parameters;

transmitting said database query to a database server, the database server being in communication with a file archive indexer for indexing a file archive for storing files and data regarding said files, the file archive indexer including a front-end indexer for processing queries and a background indexer for generating and updating indexes;

formulating a keyword query based on the keyword;

transmitting the keyword query to the file archive indexer;

obtaining database query results from said database server according to said database query, the database storing the user activity data;

obtaining keyword query results from the file archive indexer, the file archive storing actual content accessed by the user;

providing intersection results obtained from an intersection of the database query results and the keyword query results to a result analyzer module, the result analyzer module generating a rank for each database query result and obtaining a click stream for the each database query result;

loading said intersection results into a report generator;

generating a report; and

displaying said report on a graphical user interface.

15. The method as in claim 14, further comprising:

searching the file archive for a report according to said report parameters; and

returning said report according to said report parameters.

16. The method as in claim 14, wherein said actuation is selected from the group consisting of:

toolbar selection, hot key activation, and context menu selection.

17. The method as in claim 14, further comprising the step of saving said report in memory on a local computer.

18. The method as in claim 14, further comprising saving said report in the file archive.

19. The method as in claim 14, further comprising obtaining the file enhancements associated with documents described in said report.