Methods and systems for purposeful computing

• US 9,904,579 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2014
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Shear, Victor Henry, Williams, Peter Robert, Rho, Jaisook, Redmond, Timothy St. John, Horning, James Jay
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US14/776,180
• Publication Number:
  US 20160034305A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 709226, 706 47, 707767, 707999009
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227

Abstract

A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to facilitate user purpose in a computing architecture.

Claims

1. A method for establishing and maintaining an at least in part standardized and interoperable resource identification and evaluation environment, such method comprising:

providing, through use of a first computing arrangement, at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, to enable, at least in part such identification and evaluation environment,

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, employing, with a second computing arrangement, a standardized, interoperably interpretable, contextual purpose approximation expression language for characterizing resource, and user, purpose multi-dimensional spaces,

wherein such language includes a verb set lexicon comprising a constrained set of verbs from human language, functioning as a simplified and standardized verb expression arrangement, for at least in part specifying, when used in combination with a standardized domain category arrangement, both user prescriptive, and stakeholder resource descriptive, contextual purpose approximation expressions,

wherein resource stakeholders comprise resource providers and resource quality to purpose asserters;

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, with such second computing arrangement, configuring a standardized and interoperable quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement for providing standardized and interoperably interpretable, resource characterizing, quality to purpose assertions,

wherein each such quality to purpose assertion comprises, at least in part, at least one such stakeholder resource descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression and at least one corresponding standardized and interoperably interpretable contextual purpose approximation expression associated value, and where such quality to purpose assertions represent asserter specifications of the suitability of respective subject matter resource sets in fulfilling respective user purposes as specified by user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions, and

wherein such quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement is configured to enable assertion stakeholders creating, independently and using their respective computing arrangements, respective resource characterizing standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information sets, wherein one or more stakeholders for each such assertion information set;

a. explicitly identify a subject matter resource set of such assertion information set,

b. at least one of express and select, at least one of directly and by association, an at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression enabling, at least in part, potential resource users to at least one of identify, and evaluate use of, one or more subject matter resources in support of such users'"'"' respective purpose fulfillments and in response to such users specifying their respective prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

c. at least one of express and select at least one quality to purpose assertion value, expressed in standardized form, by associating such descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression with such subject matter resource set and an associated such at least one corresponding value, enabling forming a quality to purpose assertion information set for evaluating suitability of such subject matter resource set in service of purpose fulfillment of one or more user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

d. identify, uniquely and at least in part biometrically using at least one computing arrangement sensor, at least one stakeholder human asserter of such assertion information set, and

e. provide such standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information set for use by other parties for at least one of identifying, evaluating, and selecting, one or more quality to purpose assertion information set corresponding one or more resources for user purpose fulfillment; and

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (i) resources and (ii) specifications, enables at least in part, with a second computing arrangement, configuring an effective fact stipulation computing arrangement for providing resource attribute effective fact stipulations, wherein each such stipulation comprises, at least in part, one or more of each of (a) stipulated effective facts and (b) stipulated effective facts'"'"' respective fact validation rule sets for algorithmically validating respective resource associated stipulated facts,

wherein each stipulated effective fact represents a declared effective fact characteristic regarding such assertion information set'"'"'s one or more stakeholder human asserters, and

wherein such effective fact stipulation computing arrangement employs hardware tamper resistant computer processing and memory spaces for secure effective fact information validation rules processing.

4. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables providing at least one resource that is responsive to at least one user contextual purpose expression, and wherein at least one of such at least one provided resource is monitored as an operating resource during a user computing session for compliance with a specification comprising at least one user contextual purpose expression.

5. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables organizing (a) such quality to purpose assertion information sets, and (b) computing resources, at least in part in accordance with contextual purpose expression resource classes where such classes constitute logical resource neighborhood spaces, and where such identification and evaluation environment employs such quality to purpose assertion information sets to at least one of filter and rank, resource members of such contextual purpose expression resource classes.

6. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of such at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables organizing (a) effective fact information sets regarding attributes of quality to purpose assertion stakeholder publishers, and (b) computing resources, at least in part in accordance with contextual purpose expression resource classes, and where such identification and evaluation environment employs such effective fact information regarding attributes of quality to purpose assertion stakeholder publishers to at least one of filter and rank, resource members of such contextual purpose expression resource classes.

7. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables automatically verifying as true or not true a stipulated effective fact that has been entered in response to a standardized format question or form list.

8. A method as in claim 7, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables specification of a stipulated effective fact that comprises at least one of (a) professional, (b) accreditation, (c) employer, (d) employment history, (e) health status, (f) marital status, (g) other family status, (h) credit history, and (i) criminal history, information of at least one of a quality to purpose asserter and an effective fact stipulator.

9. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables at least one of (a) quality to purpose approximation expressions, and (b) effective fact stipulations, to employ standardized trust level at least one schema expressed at least in part through the use of trust level values, wherein such at least one schema further provides one or more associated trust level test procedures.

10. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables performing resource identification and evaluation, at least in part by at least one of similarity matching and other evaluation processing, between user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions and corresponding one or more such stakeholder descriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions.

11. A method as in any of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables specification of a stipulated effective fact regarding such resource quality to purpose asserter that comprises at least one of (a) professional, (b) accreditation, (c) employer, (d) employment history, (e) health status, (f) marital status, (g) other family status, (h) credit history, and (i) criminal history, information.

12. A method as in any one of claims 1 and 3, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables a stipulated effective fact to comprise any specifiable characteristic validatable by employing a fact validation rule set.

2. A system for establishing and maintaining an at least in part standardized and interoperable resource identification and evaluation environment, such system comprising:

a computing arrangement for use in providing at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications,

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, processing elements of a standardized, interoperably interpretable, contextual purpose approximation expression language for characterizing resource, and user, purpose multi-dimensional spaces,

wherein such language includes a verb set lexicon comprising a constrained set of verbs from human language,

wherein such constrained verb set functions as a simplified and standardized verb expression arrangement for at least in part specifying, when used in combination with a standardized domain category arrangement, both user prescriptive, and stakeholder resource descriptive, contextual purpose approximation expressions, and

wherein resource stakeholders comprise resource providers and resource quality to purpose asserters;

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, configuring a standardized and interoperable quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement for providing standardized and interoperably interpretable resource characterizing, quality to purpose assertions, wherein each such quality to purpose assertion comprises, at least in part, at least one such stakeholder resource descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression and at least one corresponding standardized and interoperably interpretable contextual purpose approximation expression associated value, and where such quality to purpose assertions represent asserter specifications of the suitability of respective subject matter resource sets in fulfilling respective user purposes as specified by user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

wherein such quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement is configured to enable assertion stakeholders creating, independently and using their respective computing arrangements, respective resource characterizing standardizing and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information sets, wherein one or more stakeholders for each such assertion information set;

a. explicitly identify a subject matter resource set of such assertion information set,

b. at least one of express and select, at least one of directly and by association, an at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression, enabling, at least in part, potential resource users to at least one of identify, and evaluate use of, one or more subject matter resources in support of such users'"'"' respective purpose fulfillments and in response to such users specifying their respective prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

c. at least one of express and select at least one quality to purpose assertion value, expressed in standardized form, by associating such descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression with such subject matter resource set and an associated such at least one corresponding value, enabling forming a quality to purpose assertion information set for evaluating suitability of such subject matter resource set in service of purpose fulfillment of one or more user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

d. identify, uniquely and at least in part biometrically using at least one computing arrangement sensor, at least one stakeholder human asserter of such assertion information set, and

e. provide such standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information set for use by other parties for at least one of identifying, evaluating, and selecting, one or more quality to purpose assertion information set corresponding one or more resources for user purpose fulfillment; and

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, configuring an effective fact stipulation computing arrangement for providing resource attribute effective fact stipulations, wherein each such stipulation comprises, at least in part, one or more of each of (a) stipulated effective facts and (b) stipulated effective facts'"'"' respective fact validation rule sets for algorithmically validating their respective resource associated stipulated facts,

wherein each stipulated effective fact represents a declared effective fact characteristic regarding such assertion information set'"'"'s one or more stakeholder human asserters, and

wherein such asserter is at least in part identified based upon at least one of biometric information and information derived therefrom, and wherein such effective fact stipulation computing arrangement employs hardware tamper resistant computer processing and memory spaces for secure effective fact information validation rules processing.

3. A method for establishing and maintaining an at least in part standardized and interoperable resource identification and evaluation environment, wherein such environment is established and maintained by providing at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, such method comprising:

providing through use of a first computing arrangement, such at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, to enable, at least in part such identification and evaluation environment,

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, a second computing arrangement to process elements of a standardized, interoperably interpretable, contextual purpose approximation expression language for characterizing resource, and user, purpose multi-dimensional spaces,

wherein such language includes a verb set lexicon comprising a constrained set of verbs from human language, functioning as a simplified and standardized verb expression arrangement for at least in part specifying, when used in combination with a standardized domain category arrangement, both user prescriptive, and stakeholder resource descriptive, contextual purpose approximation expressions,

wherein resource stakeholders comprise resource providers and resource quality to purpose asserters;

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, the second computing arrangement to process standardized and interoperably interpretable resource characterizing quality to purpose assertions, wherein each such quality to purpose assertion comprises, at least in part, at least one such stakeholder resource descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression and at least one corresponding standardized and interoperably interpretable contextual purpose approximation expression associated value, and where such quality to purpose assertions represent asserter specifications of the suitability of respective subject matter resource sets in fulfilling respective user purposes as specified by user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

wherein the second computing arrangement is configured in part to operate as a standardized and interoperable quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement to enable assertion stakeholders creating, independently and using their respective computing arrangements, respective resource characterizing standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information sets, wherein one or more stakeholders for each such assertion information set;

a. explicitly identify a subject matter resource set of such assertion information set,

b. at least one of express and select, at least one of directly and by association, an at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression enabling, at least in part, potential resource users to at least one of identify, and evaluate use of, one or more subject matter resources in support of such users'"'"' respective purpose fulfillments and in response to such users specifying their respective prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

c. at least one of express and select at least one quality to purpose assertion value, expressed in standardized form, by associating such descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression with such subject matter resource set and an associated such at least one corresponding value, enabling forming a quality to purpose assertion information set for evaluating suitability of such subject matter resource set in service of purpose fulfillment of one or more user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

d. identify, uniquely and at least in part biometrically using at least one computing arrangement sensor, at least one stakeholder human asserter of such assertion information set, and

e. provide such standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information set for use by other parties for at least one of identifying, evaluating, and selecting, one or more quality to purpose assertion information set corresponding one or more resources for user purpose fulfillment; and

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, configuring the second computing arrangement in part to operate as an effective fact stipulation computing arrangement for providing resource attribute effective fact stipulations, wherein each such stipulation comprises, at least in part, (a) a stipulated effective fact, and (b) an effective fact validation rule set for algorithmically testing the validity of resource one or more related characteristics to validate such stipulated effective fact,

wherein the second computing arrangement processes effective fact stipulations wherein each stipulated effective fact represents a declared effective fact characteristic regarding such assertion information set'"'"'s one or more stakeholder human asserters, and

wherein the second computing arrangement employs hardware tamper resistant computer processing and memory spaces for secure effective fact information validation rules processing.

13. A system for establishing and maintaining an at least in part standardized and interoperable resource identification and evaluation environment, wherein such environment is established and maintained by providing at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, such system comprising:

a computing arrangement for use in providing such at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications,

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, providing a standardized, interoperably interpretable, contextual purpose approximation expression language for characterizing resource, and user, purpose multi-dimensional spaces,

wherein such language includes a verb set lexicon comprising a constrained set of verbs from human language, functioning as a simplified and standardized verb expression arrangement for at least in part specifying, when used in combination with a standardized domain category arrangement, both user prescriptive, and stakeholder resource descriptive, contextual purpose approximation expressions,

wherein such resource stakeholders comprise resource providers and resource quality to purpose asserters;

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, enables at least in part, configuring a standardized and interoperable quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement for providing resource characterizing quality to purpose assertions, wherein each such quality to purpose assertion comprises, at least in part, at least one such stakeholder resource descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression and at least one corresponding standardized and interoperably interpretable contextual purpose approximation expression associated value, and where such quality to purpose assertions represent asserter specifications of the suitability of respective subject matter resource sets in fulfilling respective user purposes as specified by user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

wherein such quality to purpose assertion computing arrangement is configured to enable assertion stakeholders creating, independently and using their respective computing arrangements, respective resource characterizing standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information sets, wherein one or more stakeholders for each such assertion information set;

a. explicitly identify a subject matter resource set of such assertion information set,

b. at least one of express and select, at least one of directly and by association, an at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression enabling, at least in part, potential resource users to at least one of identify, and evaluate use of, one or more subject matter resources in support of such users'"'"' respective purpose fulfillments and in response to such users specifying their respective prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

c. at least one of express and select at least one quality to purpose assertion value, expressed in standardized form, by associating such descriptive contextual purpose approximation expression with such subject matter resource set and an associated such at least one corresponding value, enabling forming a quality to purpose assertion information set for evaluating suitability of such subject matter resource set in service of purpose fulfillment of one or more user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions,

d. identify, uniquely and at least in part biometrically using at least one computing arrangement sensor, at least one stakeholder human asserter of such assertion information set, and

e. provide such standardized and interoperably interpretable quality to purpose assertion information set for use by other parties for at least one of identifying, evaluating, and selecting, one or more quality to purpose assertion information set corresponding one or more resources for user purpose fulfillment; and

wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (i) resources and (ii) specifications, enables at least in part, configuring an effective fact stipulation computing arrangement for providing resource attribute effective fact stipulations, wherein each such stipulation comprises, at least in part, one or more of each of (a) stipulated effective facts and (b) stipulated effective facts'"'"' respective fact validation rule sets for algorithmically validating respective resource associated stipulated facts,

wherein each stipulated effective fact represents a declared effective fact characteristic regarding such assertion information set'"'"'s one or more stakeholder human asserters, and

wherein such effective fact computing arrangement employs hardware tamper resistant computer processing and memory spaces for secure effective fact information validation rules processing.

14. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables providing at least one resource that is responsive to at least one user contextual purpose expression, wherein at least one of such at least one provided resource is monitored as an operating resource during a user computing session for compliance with a specification comprising at least one user contextual purpose expression.

15. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables organizing (i) such quality to purpose assertion information sets, and (ii) computing resources, at least in part, in accordance with contextual purpose expression resource classes, wherein such classes constitute logical resource neighborhood spaces, and wherein such identification and evaluation environment employs such quality to purpose assertion information sets to at least one of filter and rank, resource members of such contextual purpose expression resource classes.

16. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables organizing (a) effective fact information sets regarding attributes of quality to purpose assertion stakeholder publishers, and (b) computing resources, at least in part in accordance with contextual purpose expression resource classes, and where such identification and evaluation environment employs such effective fact information regarding attributes of quality to purpose assertion stakeholder publishers to at least one of filter and rank, resource members of such contextual purpose expression resource classes.

17. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least part, enables automatically verifying as true or not true a stipulated effective fact that has been entered in response to a standardized format question or form list.

18. A system as in claim 17, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least part, enables, a stipulated effective fact regarding such resource quality to purpose asserter comprises at least one of (a) professional, (b) accreditation, (c) employer, (d) employment history, (e) health status, (f) marital status, (g) other family status, (h) credit history, and (i) criminal history, information.

19. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables at least one of (a) quality to purpose approximation expressions, and (b) effective fact stipulations, to employ standardized trust level at least one schema expressed at least in part through the use of trust level values, wherein such at least one schema further provides one or more associated trust level test procedures.

20. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables performing resource identification and evaluation, at least in part by at least one of similarity matching, and other evaluation processing, between user prescriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions, and corresponding one or more such stakeholder descriptive contextual purpose approximation expressions.

21. A system as in any of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables, a stipulated effective fact regarding such resource quality to purpose asserter to comprise at least one of (a) professional, (b) accreditation, (c) employer, (d) employment history, (e) health status, (f) marital status, (g) other family status, (h) credit history, and (i) criminal history, information.

22. A system as in any one of claims 2 and 13, wherein such providing of at least one of one or more standardized (a) resources and (b) specifications, at least in part, enables, a stipulated effective fact to comprise any specifiable characteristic validatable by employing a fact validation rule set.