Method and system for constructing a knowledge profile of a user having unrestricted and restricted access portions according to respective levels of confidence of content of the portions

A data processing system for constructing a user knowledge profile, the system comprising:

• confidence logic to examine an electronic document, associated with a first user, and to assign a confidence level to content within the electronic document, the content being potentially indicative of a user knowledge base of the first user;
• and
• a profiler to store the content in either the first or second portion of the user knowledge profile of the first user according to the assigned confidence level,
• wherein the first and the second portions of the user knowledge profile of the first user have different access restrictions with respect to a second user.

A data processing system for constructing a user knowledge profile, the system comprising:

• confidence means for examining an electronic document, associated with a first user, and for assigning a confidence level to content within the electronic document, the content being potentially indicative of a user knowledge base of the first user;
• and
• profiling means for storing the content in either the first or the second portion of the user knowledge profile of the first user according to the assigned confidence level,
• wherein the first and the second portions of the user knowledge profile of the first user have different access restrictions with respect to a second user.

A computer-readable medium for use by a computer for constructing a user knowledge profile storing a sequence of instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps of:

• automatically assigning a confidence level to content within an electronic document associated with a first user, the content being potentially indicative of a user knowledge base of the first user;
• and
• storing the content in either the first or second portion of a user knowledge profile of the first user according to the assigned confidence level,
• wherein the first and the second portions of the user knowledge profile of the first user have different access restrictions with respect to a second user.