# US 10,872,122 B2 · Knowledge management system and process for managing knowledge > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,872,122 B2 - Document ID: US10872122B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/883,449 - Filed: 2018-01-30 - Published: 2019-08-01 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2018-01-30 - Assignees: Government of the United States of America, AS Represented By the Secretary of Commerce - Applicants: Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce - Inventors: John Elliott; Talapady N. Bhat; Ursula R. Kattner; Carelyn E. Campbell; Ram D. Sriram; Eswaran Subrahmanian; Jacob Collard; Ira Monarch - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10872122B2 ## CPC - G06F 16/93: Document management systems - G06F 16/212: {with details for data modelling support} - G06F 16/313: {Selection or weighting of terms for indexing} - G06F 16/3344: {using natural language analysis} - G06F 40/117: Tagging; Marking up (details of markup languages G06F40/143); Designating a block; Setting of attributes (style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154) - G06F 40/169: Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes - G06F 40/211: Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars - G06N 5/00: Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS ## Abstract A knowledge management system includes: a default knowledge system including: a knowledge system and a knowledge database in communication with the knowledge system; and a knowledge store in communication with the default knowledge system and including: a taxonomy amendment, an annotation amendment, a canonicalization amendment, an ecosystem amendment, a term amendment, and a phrase amendment. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A process for managing knowledge, the process comprising: requesting a document by a knowledge manager; communicating the documents to the knowledge manager from a knowledge database; requesting a taxonomy by the knowledge manager; communicating the taxonomy to the knowledge manager from a taxonomy manager; requesting an ecosystem by the knowledge manager; communicating the ecosystem to the knowledge manager from an ecosystem manager; requesting an annotation by the knowledge manager; communicating the annotation to the knowledge manager from an annotation manager with the annotation comprising an algebraic data type for a phrase such that the algebraic data type comprises a leaf that contains a string representing a lexical item; a left subtree; a right subtree; a head field that indicates whether the left subtree or right subtree contains a syntactic head of the phrase, and elements in the algebraic date type contain features that represent linguistic structure including syntactic category, dependency type, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing features; and communicating a knowledge management data to a knowledge warehouse from the knowledge manager to manage knowledge, wherein the knowledge management data comprises the documents, the taxonomy, the ecosystem, and the annotation. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The process of claim 1, further comprising: requesting a taxonomy creation by the taxonomy manager; communicating the taxonomy creation to the taxonomy manager from a taxonomy builder; requesting a taxonomy scheme by the taxonomy builder; communicating the taxonomy scheme to the taxonomy builder from a taxonomy framework; requesting a taxonomy amendment by the taxonomy framework; and communicating the taxonomy amendment to the taxonomy framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The process of claim 1, further comprising: requesting an ecosystem snippet by the ecosystem manager; communicating the ecosystem snippet to the ecosystem manager from an ecosystem generator; requesting an ecosystem scheme by the ecosystem generator; communicating the ecosystem scheme to the ecosystem generator from an ecosystem framework; requesting an ecosystem amendment by the ecosystem framework; and communicating the ecosystem amendment to the ecosystem framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The process of claim 1, further comprising: requesting an annotation scheme by the annotation manager; communicating the annotation scheme to the annotation manager from an annotation framework; requesting an annotation amendment by the annotation framework; and communicating the annotation amendment to the annotation framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The process of claim 1, further comprising: requesting a term snippet by the annotation manager; communicating the term snippet to the annotation manager from a term generator; requesting a term scheme by the term generator; communicating the term scheme to the term generator from a term framework; requesting a term amendment by the teen framework; and communicating the term amendment to the term framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The process of claim 1, further comprising: requesting a phrase snippet by the annotation manager; communicating the phrase snippet to the annotation manager from a phrase generator; requesting a phrase generation scheme by the phrase generator; communicating the phrase generation scheme to the phrase generator from a phrase generation framework; requesting a phrase generation amendment by the phrase generation framework; communicating the phrase generation amendment to the phrase generation framework from a knowledge store; requesting a canonicalized phrase by the phrase generator; communicating the canonicalized phrase to the phrase generator from a phrase canonicalizer; requesting a phrase canonicalizing scheme by the phrase canonicalizer; communicating the phrase canonicalizing scheme to the phrase canonicalizer from a canonicalization framework; requesting a canonicalization amendment by the canonicalization framework; and communicating the canonicalization amendment to the canonicalization framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 7 A computer-implemented method, comprising: requesting a document by a knowledge manager; communicating the documents to the knowledge manager from a knowledge database; requesting a taxonomy by the knowledge manager; communicating the taxonomy to the knowledge manager from a taxonomy manager; requesting an ecosystem by the knowledge manager; communicating the ecosystem to the knowledge manager from an ecosystem manager; requesting an annotation by the knowledge manager; communicating the annotation to the knowledge manager from an annotation manager with the annotation comprising an algebraic data type for a phrase such that the algebraic data type comprises a leaf that contains a string representing a lexical item: a left subtree; a right subtree; a head field that indicates whether the left subtree or right subtree contains a syntactic head of the phrase, and elements in the algebraic date type contain features that represent linguistic structure including syntactic category, dependency type, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing features; and communicating a knowledge management data to a knowledge warehouse from the knowledge manager to manage knowledge, wherein the knowledge management data comprises the documents, the taxonomy, the ecosystem, and the annotation. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising: requesting a taxonomy creation by the taxonomy manager; communicating the taxonomy creation to the taxonomy manager from a taxonomy builder; requesting a taxonomy scheme by the taxonomy builder; communicating the taxonomy scheme to the taxonomy builder from a taxonomy framework; requesting a taxonomy amendment by the taxonomy framework; and communicating the taxonomy amendment to the taxonomy framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising: requesting an annotation scheme by the annotation manager; communicating the annotation scheme to the annotation manager from an annotation framework; requesting an annotation amendment by the annotation framework; and communicating the annotation amendment to the annotation framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 10 A system comprising: one or more computers configured to perform operations, the operations comprising: requesting a document by a knowledge manager; communicating the documents to the knowledge manager from a knowledge database; requesting a taxonomy by the knowledge manager; communicating the taxonomy to the knowledge manager from a taxonomy manager; requesting an ecosystem by the knowledge manager; communicating the ecosystem to the knowledge manager from an ecosystem manager; requesting an annotation by the knowledge manager; communicating the annotation to the knowledge manager from an annotation manager with the annotation comprising an algebraic data type for a phrase such that the algebraic data type comprises a leaf that contains a string representing a lexical item: a left subtree; a right subtree; a head field that indicates whether the left subtree or right subtree contains a syntactic head of the phrase, and elements in the algebraic date type contain features that represent linguistic structure including syntactic category, dependency type, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing features; and communicating a knowledge management data to a knowledge warehouse from the knowledge manager to manage knowledge, wherein the knowledge management data comprises the documents, the taxonomy, the ecosystem, and the annotation. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, further comprising: requesting a taxonomy creation by the taxonomy manager; communicating the taxonomy creation to the taxonomy manager from a taxonomy builder; requesting a taxonomy scheme by the taxonomy builder; communicating the taxonomy scheme to the taxonomy builder from a taxonomy framework; requesting a taxonomy amendment by the taxonomy framework; and communicating the taxonomy amendment to the taxonomy framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, further comprising: requesting an annotation scheme by the annotation manager; communicating the annotation scheme to the annotation manager from an annotation framework; requesting an annotation amendment by the annotation framework; and communicating the annotation amendment to the annotation framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 13 A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: requesting a document by a knowledge manager; communicating the documents to the knowledge manager from a knowledge database; requesting a taxonomy by the knowledge manager; communicating the taxonomy to the knowledge manager from a taxonomy manager; requesting an ecosystem by the knowledge manager; communicating the ecosystem to the knowledge manager from an ecosystem manager; requesting an annotation by the knowledge manager; communicating the annotation to the knowledge manager from an annotation manager with the annotation comprising an algebraic data type for a phrase such that the algebraic data type comprises a leaf that contains a string representing a lexical item; a left subtree; a right subtree; a head field that indicates whether the left subtree or right subtree contains a syntactic head of the phrase, and elements in the algebraic date type contain features that represent linguistic structure including syntactic category, dependency type, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing features; and communicating a knowledge management data to a knowledge warehouse from the knowledge manager to manage knowledge, wherein the knowledge management data comprises the documents, the taxonomy, the ecosystem, and the annotation. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 in which the operations further comprise: requesting a taxonomy creation by the taxonomy manager; communicating the taxonomy creation to the taxonomy manager from a taxonomy builder; requesting a taxonomy scheme by the taxonomy builder; communicating the taxonomy scheme to the taxonomy builder from a taxonomy framework; requesting a taxonomy amendment by the taxonomy framework; and communicating the taxonomy amendment to the taxonomy framework from a knowledge store. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 in which the operations further comprise: requesting an annotation scheme by the annotation manager; communicating the annotation scheme to the annotation manager from an annotation framework; requesting an annotation amendment by the annotation framework; and communicating the annotation amendment to the annotation framework from a knowledge store.