Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods

• US 8,219,531 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2007
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• 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:
  US11/927,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109486A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,716 Days
• Field of Search: 707722-780, 707999002-999005, 707/603, 707/667, 707/672, 707/673, 705/32, 709/223, 709/224, 715/738
• US Class Current: 707/667
• 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 timing and recording user activity in a knowledge archival and recollection system, the method comprising: configuring an activity tracking module; logging into the knowledge archival and recollection system; prompting the user with a task identifier input interface upon opening an application user interface; initiating a timer upon input into the input interface; stopping the timer upon inactive application interface; and storing timer data into a database server.

Claims

1. A computer implemented knowledge archival and recollection method accessible by a user for gathering, saving, and presenting user activity data, the method comprising:

gathering and storing the user activity data, the user activity data including actual content accessed by the user;

collecting file enhancement data, associating the file enhancement data with a file being currently accessed by the user, and transmitting the file enhancement for being stored, wherein the file enhancement data includes annotations and file insertions;

storing the actual content accessed by the user and the file enhancement data as stored material;

indexing the stored material using a front-end indexer and a background indexer, wherein the front-end indexer processes queries and the background indexer generates and updates indexes;

receiving a command, including input parameters, for conducting a search of the stored material, the input parameters including keyword, date range, the user activity, the file enhancement data, criteria and graph options from the user;

generating a customizable user activity report based on the input parameters and the user activity data; and

presenting the report to the user,

wherein the user activity data includes data of activity of the user on the computer including online data, being provided to the computer from a network, and offline data, being locally available on the computer,

wherein the offline data includes files stored locally on the computer, and wherein the user activity data includes operations performed on the offline data, and

wherein the method further comprises;

configuring an activity tracking module;

prompting said user with a task identifier input interface upon opening an application user interface;

initiating a timer upon input into said input interface;

stopping said timer upon user deactivation of said timer;

stopping said timer upon inactive application interface; and

storing timer data into a database server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of stopping said timer upon user logout from said knowledge archival and recollection system.