Owner-brokered knowledge sharing machine
AssigneePandesa Corporation
InventorRichard Park ANDERSEN
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Abstract
The invention discloses a system and method for promoting information or knowledge sharing among users registered to a computer network by allowing an information or knowledge owner to locate or directly access private information, to publish information for direct access by knowledge requestors, or to broker information or knowledge with an information or knowledge requestor. This invention also discloses a system and method which allow an organization to develop and manage a reward system based on the frequency of an information or knowledge owner's contribution to information or knowledge sharing and the frequency of an information or knowledge requestor's use of shared knowledge.
Claims21
In a computer network that includes at least two computers communicatively coupled to each other, a system for sharing knowledge objects among the registered users of the computer network comprising:
- a means for managing a collection of private knowledge objects managed by users, wherein each individual user can access any of the private knowledge objects directly;
- and
- a means for managing a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the users can access any of the published knowledge objects by entering a unique user identification;
- and
- a means for managing a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the listed knowledge objects can be identified but cannot be accessed by any of the users other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access.
In a computer network that includes at least two computers communicatively coupled to each other, a method for sharing knowledge objects among the registered users of the computer network, the method comprising the steps of:
- managing a collection of private knowledge objects managed by users, wherein each individual user can access any of the private knowledge objects directly;
- and
- managing a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the users can access any of the published knowledge objects by entering a unique user identification;
- and
- managing a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the listed knowledge objects can be identified but cannot be accessed by any of the users other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access.
9-36. (canceled)
A system for sharing knowledge objects among registered users of a computer network, the system comprising:
- a processor;
- and a computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions for:
- managing a collection of private knowledge objects managed by users, wherein each individual user can access any of the private knowledge objects directly;
- managing access to a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the users can access any of the published knowledge objects;
- and
- managing access to a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the listed knowledge objects can be identified but cannot be accessed by any of the users other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access.
A computer-implemented method for sharing knowledge objects among registered users of a computer network, the method comprising:
- managing a collection of private knowledge objects controlled by users, wherein each individual user can access any of the private knowledge objects directly;
- and
- managing a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the users can access any of the published knowledge objects by entering a unique user identification;
- and
- managing a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the listed knowledge objects can be identified but cannot be accessed by any of the users other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access.
A computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions for sharing knowledge objects among registered users of a computer network, the instructions for:
- managing a collection of private knowledge objects controlled by users, wherein each individual user can access any of the individual user's private knowledge objects directly;
- managing access to a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the users can access any of the published knowledge objects;
- and
- managing access to a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by the users, wherein any of the listed knowledge objects can be identified but cannot be accessed by any of the users other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.