Content delivery system for delivering content relevant to a profile and profiling model tool for personal or organizational development

• US 9,143,578 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2007
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gaiasoft IP Limited
• Original Assignee: Gaiasoft IP Limited
• Inventors: Fourman, Clive Morel
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woo, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US12/298,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20100161709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,070 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 707748-749, 705 10- 11
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A content delivery system is provided for delivering content relevant to a profile. The system comprises a server (106) arranged to store a plurality of data elements (114) having a plurality of respective profiles associated therewith. The server (106) is further arranged to mine the plurality of data elements relative to another data element having another profile associated therewith. The server (106) is consequently able to identify at least one of the plurality of data elements having as great a relevance as possible to the another profile. The plurality of respective profiles constitute respective meta-data, and the another data element and at least one of the plurality of data elements comprise data relating to a profiling model. The server (106) is capable of delivering the identified at least one of the plurality of data element to a recipient terminal (102).

Claims

1. A content delivery system for delivering content relevant to a profile that characterises a user of the system, the system comprising:

a memory arranged to store software and a plurality of data elements having a plurality of respective profiles associated therewith including a profile that characterises the user, the plurality of respective profiles constituting respective meta-data; and

a processor executing instructions of the software to;

obtain information from the user via a user interface;

access the plurality of data elements; and

mine the plurality of data elements by reference to another data element having another profile associated therewith using a relevance methodology to identify at least one of the plurality of data elements having relevance to the profile associated with the another data element and the profile that characterises the user;

wherein the relevance methodology calculates characteristic values based upon at least two of the plurality of data elements or at least two of the plurality of respective profiles;

wherein the another data element and at least one of the plurality of data elements comprise data relating to a profiling model; and

wherein the processor executes the instructions to deliver the identified at least one of the plurality of data elements or at least one of the plurality of respective profiles based on the calculated characteristic values to a recipient terminal.

2. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the processor executes the instructions to communicate the identified at least one of the plurality of data elements to a recipient terminal so that the retrieved data element is presented graphically in accordance with the profiling model.

3. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profiling model is an evolutionary, psychological or cultural development of consciousness model for an individual, organisation, group or community.

4. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profiling model may be a model that characterises an individual, an organisation, a group or a community into a number of discrete categories, transition between the number of categories lacking a defined or predictable evolutionary sequence.

5. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profiling model may be a model relating to a repeatable lifecycle.

6. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein a data element is a resource comprising one or more of:

a simple number, a performance measure, a document, a complex data structure, an organisation “

strategy map”

, a strategy, an objective, Key Performance Indicator (KPI), a scorecard, a Hierarchy of Intent, an expertise, a learning, a recommendation, a risk, an issue, a case study, an action, a corrective action, a discussion, a web blog, a web link, a wiki, a reference, a legal entity, a department, a team, a reference to a standard, a tool, a publication, or a description of a method or a process.

7. The content delivery system according to claim 1,

wherein a data element corresponds to one or more of:

a person, a customer, an organisation, an organisational system or a particular issue confronting a person, a customer, an organisation or organisational system.

8. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profile is obtained in response to an assessment, the assessment being performed using a computer program based upon results of a survey.

9. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profiling model is arranged to model an aspect of a state of an entity or data element, or a progression of the state of the entity or data element.

10. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profiling model comprises a plurality of categories, the profiling model comprising at least nine elements.

11. The content delivery system according to claim 10, wherein the at least nine elements are arranged as a matrix, at least three columns of the matrix being attributed to or entitled “

leadership”

, “

transformation”

, and “

performance”

, respectively, or “

be”

, “

do” and

“

have”

, respectively.

12. The content delivery system according to claim 10, wherein the at least nine elements are arranged as a matrix, at least three rows of the matrix being attributed to or entitled “

individual”

, “

organisational” and

“

global”

, respectively, or “

individual”

, “

organisation”

, and “

whole system”

.

13. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of profiles respectively associated with at least one of the plurality of data elements indicates that the at least one of the plurality of data elements relates to one or more levels of a corporate consciousness or corporate culture model.

14. The content delivery system according to claim 1, further comprising a further store arranged to store a further data element having at least one of the plurality of respective profiles associated therewith, access to the further data element being restricted.

15. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the processor executes the instructions to:

receive communication from at least one networked computer to facilitate input of at least one of;

different goals, measures related to goals, or other data to the processor, wherein the different goals and other data constitute respective data elements.

16. The content delivery system according to claim 15, wherein the processor further executes the instructions to enable at least one of processing or visualisation at a networked computer based on the communication from the at least one networked computer.

17. The content delivery system as claimed in claim 15, wherein:

the processor further executes the instructions to enable at least one of processing or visualisation at a networked computer based on the communication from the at least one networked computer;

the profile of the another data element represents a complex system containing human components and structural processes, the complex system being a part of a hierarchy of holons with a plurality of hierarchical levels;

the profiling model and visualisation include profiling and visualisation according to at least two dimensions comprising;

hierarchical level within the hierarchy of holons in a first dimension, resulting in visualisation in one or more display regions according to the one or more hierarchical levels of the hierarchy of holons; and

an internal-active-results state in a second dimension comprising at least three attributes of the state of the entity, an internal state being based on a profile according to an evolutionary, psychological or cultural development of consciousness model, an active state relating to progression of the state, and a result state relating to the physical reality and results;

the display regions intersect so that data elements are visualised as a set of display regions representing both the hierarchical level and at least the internal-active-result state to which each data element relates; and

a plurality of said data elements are updated resulting in content delivery and visualisation corresponding to the current state of the complex system.

18. The content delivery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the another profile comprises multiple profiles.

19. The content delivery system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the another profile element is changeable.

20. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein a data element is a resource comprising one or more of:

a document, an organisation “

strategy map”

, an expertise, a learning, a recommendation, a risk, an issue, a case study, an action, a corrective action, a discussion, a web blog, a web link, a wiki, a reference, a legal entity, a department, a team, a reference to a standard, a publication, a film, a book, a magazine, or a person.

21. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profile comprises an identification of the user of the system.

22. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the profile comprises an identification of the user of the system, a categorization of the user, and information obtained implicitly and explicitly from the user.

23. The content delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the identified at least one of the plurality of data element is user-selectable.

24. A content delivery system for delivering content relevant to a profile that characterises an entity, the system comprising:

a memory arranged to store software and a plurality of data elements having a plurality of respective profiles associated therewith including a profile that characterises the entity, the plurality of respective profiles constituting respective meta-data; and

a processor executing instructions of the software to;

obtain information associated with the entity from a user via a user interface;

access the plurality of data elements; and

mine the plurality of data elements by reference to another data element having another profile associated therewith using a relevance methodology to identify at least one of the plurality of data elements having relevance to the profile associated with the another data element and the profile that characterises the entity;

wherein

the relevance methodology calculates characteristic values based upon at least two of the plurality of data elements or at least two of the plurality of respective profiles;

the another data element and at least one of the plurality of data elements comprise data relating to a profiling model; and

the processor executes the instructions to deliver the identified at least one of the plurality of data elements or at least one of the plurality of respective profiles based on the calculated characteristic values to a recipient terminal.