Methods and systems for enabling identification and/or evaluation of resources for purposeful computing

• US 10,491,536 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2018
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• 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:
  US16/004,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20180367466A1
• Time in Patent Office: 535 Days
• Field of Search: 709224, 709226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3329 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• 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

Abstract

Systems and methods for purposeful computing that, among other things, facilitate identification and evaluation of resources based, at least in part, on the use of purpose expressions.

Claims

1. A system for enabling identification and/or evaluation of resources for user computing activity purpose fulfillment, such system comprising:

a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, at least one memory, and at least one communications means, for establishing a computing activity, computing resource identification and evaluation platform, such platform comprising, at least in part, specifications and/or resources that enable;

specifying, using hardware and software computing arrangements, at least in part standardized, interoperably interpretable, contextual purpose expressions, such specifying operating in compliance with such platform'"'"'s specifications, and/or employing at least a portion of such platform'"'"'s resources, wherein such specifying;

(1) enables users, using their respective computing arrangements, to express and/or select respective computing activity purpose concept approximations, expressed as contextual purpose expressions, that at least in part represent such users'"'"' respective user computing activity purposes, and

(2) enables resource stakeholders, using their respective computing arrangements, independently to at least one of (a) respectively express and/or select contextual purpose expressions, and (b) respectively select classes and/or other neighborhoods based upon one or more of such classes'"'"' and/or other neighborhoods'"'"' respective associated one or more contextual purpose expressions, where such contextual purpose expressions respectively describe stakeholders'"'"' contextual purpose concept approximations regarding purposeful use of their respective resources,

wherein expression of each such contextual purpose expression is performed using, at least in part, one or more verbs selected from one or more constrained verb, contextual purpose lexicons, and one or more domain categories selected from one or more domain category arrangements, wherein such one or more selected verbs and one or more selected domain categories are associated to form a verb and domain combination contextual purpose expression;

organizing, using at least one hardware and software computing arrangement, resources into groups for user and/or user computing arrangement at least one of resource identification, evaluation, and selection, such organizing into groups comprising at least in part grouping resource instances as group members based upon such resources'"'"' respective shared contextual purpose expression information, wherein such groups comprise resource purpose classes and/or other purpose neighborhoods, and where class and/or other neighborhood member sets respectively comprise resources sharing, at least in part, one or more operatively same usage purpose concept approximations expressed at least in part through use of respective contextual purpose expressions; and

associating, using hardware and software computing arrangements, resources with effective facts, based upon effective facts'"'"' respective parties stipulating one or more facts pertaining to such one or more facts'"'"' respective resources and/or resource stakeholders, wherein;

(a) such effective facts are resource attribute information sets employed in evaluations of suitability of resources for respective user purposes,

(b) such effective facts have respective secure test methods for validating their respective stipulated fact information sets, and

(c) one or more portions of such effective facts are processed in respective secure rules governance, hardware tamper resistant, processing spaces.

4. A system as in claim 1, wherein such platform enables specifying a user as a human set, and/or an entity acting for itself as an organization, group, or other entity.

6. A system as in claim 1, wherein such platform enables specifying a neighborhood that is a multi-dimensional space whose dimensions are comprised of specified purpose concept parameters,

wherein a concept approximation contextual purpose expression is comprised, at least in part, of a verb from a purpose expression, constrained in number of verbs, lexicon and at least one domain category.

7. A system as in claim 1, wherein such platform enables specifying effective fact test methods that are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

9. A system as in claim 1, wherein such platform enables specifying effective fact stipulated facts that are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

11. A system as in claim 1, wherein such platform enables stipulating effective fact stipulated facts, wherein such stipulated facts respectively comprise at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships information.

13. A system as in any one of claims 11 and 12, wherein users are enabled to respectively validate effective fact at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships as valid stipulated facts, at least in part, through secure communicating with facts'"'"' respective at least one of credentialing and membership organizations'"'"' web service arrangements, where such organizations maintain one or more web service accessible information sets'"'"' stipulated fact validation information, and where such validation information can be accessed using test procedure sets comprising, at least in part, trusted authority rules based web service information verification arrangements.

14. A system as in any one of claims 11 and 12, wherein users can validate effective fact stipulated fact at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships as valid stipulated fact information, at least in part, through the use of encrypted, secure certificates provided by trusted authorities.

15. A system as in any one of claims 11 and 12, wherein users are enabled to respectively perform effective fact stipulated fact validation of at least one of effective fact expertise credentials and organization memberships, at least in part, through the use of encrypted, secure certificates provided by trusted authorities.

16. A system as in claim 13, wherein users are enabled to respectively perform effective fact stipulated fact validation of at least one of effective fact expertise credentials and organization memberships, at least in part, through the use of encrypted, secure certificates provided by trusted authorities.

17. A system as in claim 11, wherein such platform enables validating an effective fact stipulated fact through use of an encrypted certificate provided by a trusted authority and/or test procedure set operated with an authority that maintains a compliant information verification arrangement.

18. A system as in claim 14, where users may validate an effective fact stipulated fact through use of an encrypted certificate provided by a trusted authority and/or test procedure set operated with an authority that maintains a compliant information verification arrangement.

2. A system for enhancing identification and evaluation of resources, based at least in part on the use of at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable contextual purpose expressions, such system comprising:

a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, at least one memory, and at least one communications means, for providing specifications and/or resources for enhancing computing resource identification and evaluation for user purpose fulfillment, such providing specifications and/or resources enabling;

specifying and/or selecting approximations of users'"'"' respective purposes, by users using their respective hardware and software computing arrangements, such users'"'"' approximations respectively expressed as user computing activity prescriptive contextual purpose expressions, at least in part to at least one of identify and evaluate one or more computing resources based at least in part on such one or more resources'"'"' suitability for users'"'"' respective computing arrangement one or more computing activity set purposes,

wherein such user computing activity prescriptive contextual purpose expressions are each specified, at least in part, through the use of at least one contextually inferred, or explicitly selected, verb from a standardized, constrained, purposeful computing verb lexicon, and at least one associated standardized domain category instance;

specifying and/or selecting approximations of independent stakeholders'"'"' respective purposes, by independent resource stakeholders using their respective hardware and software computing arrangements, such stakeholders'"'"' approximations respectively expressed as one or more computing activity descriptive contextual purpose expressions, wherein such descriptive contextual purpose expressions respectively describe stakeholders'"'"' one or more attribute representations of user computing activity set purpose fulfillment concept approximations for such stakeholders'"'"' respective resources,

wherein such stakeholder computer activity descriptive contextual purpose expressions are each specified, at least in part, through the use of at least one contextually inferred, or explicitly selected, verb from such standardized, constrained, purposeful computing verb lexicon, and at least one associated standardized domain category instance; and

at least one of identifying and evaluating such stakeholders'"'"' respective resources based, at least in part, upon their respective suitabilities for satisfying anticipated user purposes through the use, at least in part, of similarity matching of user and stakeholder contextual purpose expressions,

wherein evaluating (a) users'"'"' expressed and/or selected prescriptive contextual purpose expressions for their respective computing activities, and (b) descriptive contextual purpose expressions of stakeholders for their respective resources, includes at least in part comparing user prescriptive contextual purpose expressions to respective stakeholder descriptive resource contextual purpose expressions, wherein such evaluating is at least in part performed using a tamper-resistant computing arrangement, and wherein such evaluating includes;

identifying similarities between standardized portions of plural such contextual purpose expressions,

identifying inconsistencies between users'"'"' respective prescriptive contextual purpose expressions and similarity matched stakeholders'"'"' respective descriptive contextual purpose expressions, and

enabling providing users'"'"' respective computing activity purpose fulfillment resource result sets at least in part based on such evaluation of standardized portions of such plural contextual purpose expressions.

5. A system as in claim 2, wherein providing such specifications and/or resources enables at least in part, specifying a user as a human set, and/or an entity acting for itself as an organization, group, or other entity.

3. A system for enabling a resource stakeholder to enhance identification and evaluation of resources based at least in part on the use of at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable core purpose contextual purpose expressions, such system comprising:

a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, and at least one memory, for at least one of specifying, selecting, and storing, by a stakeholder party for at least one of such stakeholder party'"'"'s one or more resource sets, a contextual purpose expression representing at least in part a core purpose expression specifying an approximation of an anticipated core purpose usage of such stakeholder party'"'"'s resource set, wherein such core purpose expression comprises an information set that includes, at least in part, a verb from a constrained verb lexicon, and at least one domain category;

a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, and at least one memory, for at least one of specifying, selecting, and storing, by at least one of such resource set'"'"'s at least one stakeholder party, an effective fact information set, such effective fact information set including a stipulated fact describing at least one of such resource set'"'"'s at least one of publisher'"'"'s, author'"'"'s, creator'"'"'s, distributor'"'"'s, and retailer'"'"'s one or more descriptive attributes, wherein such effective fact information set further includes at least one securely associated computing test method to validate a stipulated fact of such effective fact, and wherein such effective fact at least one of specifying, selecting, and storing is at least in part processed using a hardware tamper resistant processing and memory arrangement; and

a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, at least one memory, and at least one communications means, for publishing such at least one of specified, selected, and stored such core purpose and effective fact information sets as an at least in part, resource identification information set.

8. A system as in claim 3, wherein effective fact test methods are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

10. A system as in claim 3, wherein effective fact stipulated facts are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

12. A system as in claim 3, wherein stipulated facts stipulate respective at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships.

19. A computing method for enabling identification and/or evaluation of resources for user computing activity purpose fulfillment, such method comprising:

establishing a computing activity, computing resource identification and evaluation platform, using a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, at least one memory, and at least one communications means, such platform comprising, at least in part, specifications and/or resources that enable;

specifying, using hardware and software computing arrangements, at least in part standardized, interoperably interpretable, contextual purpose expressions, such specifying operating in compliance with such platform'"'"'s specifications, and/or employing at least a portion of such platform'"'"'s resources, wherein such specifying;

(1) enables users, using their respective computing arrangements, to express and/or select respective computing activity purpose concept approximations, expressed as contextual purpose expressions, that at least in part represent such users'"'"' respective user computing activity purposes, and

(2) enables resource stakeholders, using their respective computing arrangements, independently to at least one of (a) respectively express and/or select contextual purpose expressions, and (b) respectively select classes or other neighborhoods based upon one or more of such classes'"'"' and/or other neighborhoods'"'"' respective associated one or more contextual purpose expressions, where such contextual purpose expressions respectively describe stakeholders'"'"' contextual purpose concept approximations regarding purposeful use of their respective resources,

wherein expression of each such contextual purpose expression is performed using, at least in part, one or more verbs selected from one or more constrained verb, contextual purpose lexicons, and one or more domain categories selected from one or more domain category arrangements, wherein such one or more selected verbs and one or more selected domain categories are associated to form a verb and domain combination contextual purpose expression;

organizing, using at least one hardware and software computing arrangement, resources into groups for user and/or user computing arrangement at least one of resource identification, evaluation, and selection, such organizing into groups comprising at least in part grouping resource instances as group members based upon such resources'"'"' respective shared contextual purpose expression information, wherein such groups comprise resource purpose classes and/or other purpose neighborhoods, and where class and/or other neighborhood member sets respectively comprise resources sharing, at least in part, one or more operatively same usage purpose concept approximations expressed at least in part through use of respective contextual purpose expressions; and

associating, using hardware and software computing arrangements, resources with effective facts, based upon effective facts'"'"' respective parties stipulating one or more facts pertaining to such one or more facts'"'"' respective resources and/or resource stakeholders, wherein;

(a) such effective facts are resource attribute information sets employed in evaluations of suitability of resources for respective user purposes,

(b) such effective facts have respective secure test methods for validating their respective stipulated fact information sets, and

(c) one or more portions of such effective facts are processed in respective secure rules governance, hardware tamper resistant, processing spaces.

22. A method as in claim 19, wherein such platform enables specifying a user as a human set, and/or an entity acting for itself as an organization, group, or other entity.

24. A method as in claim 19, wherein such platform enables specifying a neighborhood that is a multi-dimensional space whose dimensions are comprised of specified purpose concept parameters,

wherein a concept approximation contextual purpose expression is comprised, at least in part, of a verb from a purpose expression, constrained in number of verbs, lexicon and at least one domain category.

25. A method as in claim 19, wherein such platform enables specifying effective fact test methods that are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

27. A method as in claim 19, wherein such platform enables specifying effective fact stipulated facts that are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

29. A method as in claim 19, wherein such platform enables stipulating effective fact stipulated facts, wherein such stipulated facts respectively comprise at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships information.

31. A method as in any one of claims 29 and 30, wherein users are enabled to respectively validate effective fact at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships as valid stipulated facts, at least in part, through secure communicating with facts'"'"' respective at least one of credentialing and membership organizations'"'"' web service arrangements, where such organizations maintain one or more web service accessible information sets'"'"' stipulated fact validation information, and where such validation information can be accessed using test procedure sets comprising, at least in part, trusted authority rules based web service information verification arrangements.

32. A method as in any one of claims 29 and 30, wherein users can validate effective fact stipulated fact at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships as valid stipulated fact information, at least in part, through the use of encrypted, secure certificates provided by trusted authorities.

33. A method as in any one of claims 29 and 30, wherein users are enabled to respectively perform effective fact stipulated fact validation of at least one of effective fact expertise credentials and organization memberships, at least in part, through the use of encrypted, secure certificates provided by trusted authorities.

34. A method as in claim 31, wherein users are enabled to respectively perform effective fact stipulated fact validation of at least one of effective fact expertise credentials and organization memberships, at least in part, through the use of encrypted, secure certificates provided by trusted authorities.

35. A method as in claim 29, wherein such platform enables validating an effective fact stipulated fact through use of an encrypted certificate provided by a trusted authority and/or test procedure set operated with an authority that maintains a compliant information verification arrangement.

36. A method as in claim 32, where users may validate an effective fact stipulated fact through use of an encrypted certificate provided by a trusted authority and/or test procedure set operated with an authority that maintains a compliant information verification arrangement.

20. A computing method for enhancing identification and evaluation of resources, based at least in part on the use of at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable contextual purpose expressions, such method comprising:

providing, using a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, at least one memory, and at least one communications means, specifications and/or resources for enhancing computing resource identification and evaluation for user purpose fulfillment, such providing specifications and/or resources enabling;

specifying and/or selecting approximations of users'"'"' respective purposes, by users using their respective hardware and software computing arrangements, such users'"'"' approximations respectively expressed as, user computing activity prescriptive contextual purpose expressions, at least in part to at least one of identify and evaluate one or more computing resources based at least in part on such one or more resources'"'"' suitability for users'"'"' respective computing arrangement one or more computing activity set purposes,

wherein such user computing activity prescriptive contextual purpose expressions are each specified, at least in part, through the use of at least one contextually inferred, or explicitly selected, verb from a standardized, constrained, purposeful computing verb lexicon, and at least one associated standardized domain category instance;

specifying and/or selecting approximations of independent stakeholders'"'"' respective purposes, by independent resource stakeholders using their respective hardware and software computing arrangements, such stakeholders'"'"' approximations respectively expressed as one or more computing activity descriptive contextual purpose expressions, wherein such descriptive contextual purpose expressions respectively describe stakeholders'"'"' one or more attribute representations of user computing activity set purpose fulfillment concept approximations for such stakeholders'"'"' respective resources,

wherein such stakeholder computer activity descriptive contextual purpose expressions are each specified, at least in part, through the use of at least one contextually inferred, or explicitly selected, verb from such standardized, constrained, purposeful computing verb lexicon, and at least one associated standardized domain category instance; and

at least one of identifying and evaluating such stakeholders'"'"' respective resources based, at least in part, upon their respective suitabilities for satisfying anticipated user purposes through the use, at least in part, of similarity matching of user and stakeholder contextual purpose expressions,

wherein evaluating (a) users'"'"' expressed and/or selected prescriptive contextual purpose expressions for their respective computing activities, and (b) descriptive contextual purpose expressions of stakeholders for their respective resources, includes at least in part comparing user prescriptive contextual purpose expressions to respective stakeholder descriptive resource contextual purpose expressions, wherein such evaluating is at least in part performed using a tamper-resistant computing arrangement, and wherein such evaluating includes;

identifying similarities between standardized portions of plural such contextual purpose expressions,

identifying inconsistencies between users'"'"' respective prescriptive contextual purpose expressions and similarity matched stakeholders'"'"' respective descriptive contextual purpose expressions, and

enabling providing users'"'"' respective computing activity purpose fulfillment resource result sets at least in part based on such evaluation of standardized portions of such plural contextual purpose expressions.

23. A method as in claim 20, wherein providing such specifications and/or resources enables at least in part, specifying a user as a human set, and/or an entity acting for itself as an organization, group, or other entity.

21. A method for enhancing identification and evaluation of resources by a resource stakeholder based at least in part on the use of at least in part standardized and interoperably interpretable core purpose contextual purpose expressions, such method comprising:

at least one of specifying, selecting, and storing, by a stakeholder party for at least one of such stakeholder party'"'"'s one or more resource sets, using a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, and at least one memory, a contextual purpose expression representing at least in part a core purpose expression specifying an approximation of an anticipated core purpose usage of such stakeholder party'"'"'s resource set, wherein such core purpose expression comprises an information set that includes, at least in part, a verb from a constrained verb lexicon, and at least one domain category;

at least one of specifying, selecting, and storing, by at least one of such resource set'"'"'s at least one stakeholder party, using a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, and at least one memory, an effective fact information set, such effective fact information set including a stipulated fact describing at least one of such resource set'"'"'s at least one of publisher'"'"'s, author'"'"'s, creator'"'"'s, distributor'"'"'s, and retailer'"'"'s one or more descriptive attributes, wherein such effective fact information set further includes at least one securely associated computing test method to validate a stipulated fact of such effective fact, and wherein such effective fact at least one of specifying, selecting, and storing is at least in part processed using a hardware tamper resistant processing and memory arrangement; and

publishing, using a hardware and software computing arrangement, comprising at least in part at least one hardware processor, at least one memory, and at least one communications means, such at least one of specified, selected, and stored such core purpose and effective fact information sets as an at least in part, resource identification information set.

26. A method as in claim 21, wherein effective fact test methods are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

28. A method as in claim 21, wherein effective fact stipulated facts are at least in part standardized and interoperable.

30. A method as in claim 21, wherein stipulated facts stipulate respective at least one of expertise credentials and organization memberships.