Knowledge gathering system based on user's affinity

• US 9,159,048 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2003
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Company Limited (ByteDance Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Goodwin, James P., Kraenzel, Carl J., Schirmer, Andrew L., Reagen, Jeff, Newbold, David L.
• Primary Examiner(s): PYO, MONICA M
• Application Number:
  US10/341,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20030163485A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,655 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709/229, 707/104.1, 707/1, 707/200, 707/3, 707/749, 707999003-999005, 707/999.104, 707/999.2, 707769-770, 700/200
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/00 Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models
• 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: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A system, method, and processor readable medium for processing data in a knowledge management system gathers information content and transmits a work request for the information content gathered. The information content may be registered with a K-map and assigned a unique document identifier. A work queue processes the work requests. The processed information may then be transmitted to another work queue for further processing. Further processing may include categorization, full-text indexing, metrics extraction or other process. Control messages may be transmitted to one or more users providing a status of the work request. The information may be analyzed and further indexed. A progress statistics report may be generated for each of the processes performed on the document. The progress statistics may be provided in a record. A shared access to a central data structure representing the metrics history and taxonomy may be provided for all work queues via a CORBA service.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of knowledge processing, comprising:

periodically monitoring, using a computer hardware system, contents of documents stored in one or more data repositories;

identifying, using the computer hardware system, a match between;

(i) a content of a document stored within the one or more data repositories, and

(ii) an affinity of a user;

gathering, based upon the identified match and from the one or more data repositories, one or more documents with contents that match the affinity of the user; and

notifying the user that the one or more documents with contents that match the affinity of the user have been gathered, wherein

the identifying is performed automatically and contemporaneously with the periodic monitoring;

the identified match is used to modify a knowledge map; and

the gathering, based upon the identified match, uses the knowledge map.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

organizing the one or more gathered documents into categories.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the one or more data repositories are non-web based data repositories.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

the periodically monitoring is performed on a predetermined schedule.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein

the predetermined schedule is based upon a selection by the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

at least one of the one or more data repositories is selected by the user.

7. A computer hardware system configured for knowledge processing, comprising:

at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to initiate and/or perform;

periodically monitoring, using a computer hardware system, contents of documents stored in one or more data repositories;

identifying, using the computer hardware system, a match between;

(i) a content of a document stored within the one or more data repositories, and

(ii) an affinity of a user;

gathering, based upon the identified match and from the one or more data repositories, one or more documents with contents that match the affinity of the user; and

notifying the user that the one or more documents with contents that match the affinity of the user have been gathered, wherein

the identifying is performed automatically and contemporaneously with the periodic monitoring;

the identified match is used to modify a knowledge map; and

the gathering, based upon the identified match, uses the knowledge map.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to initiate and/or perform:

organizing the one or more gathered documents into categories.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein

the one or more data repositories are non-web based data repositories.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein

the periodically monitoring is performed on a predetermined schedule.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the predetermined schedule is based upon a selection by the user.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein

at least one of the one or more data repositories is selected by the user.