System and method for managing knowledge

A system for facilitating meta-analysis of data captured for intelligence purposes within a computer network, which is implemented as an unconstrained system, the system comprising:

• a distributed acquisition server architecture within the computer network responsive to a data-flow driven environment;
• a plurality of streams of unstructured data which are sampled by said distributed acquisition server architecture;
• a dedicated mining language tied to a current system ontology for converting said plurality of streams of unstructured data into a well described normalized form of binary data;
• a memory system tied to said current system ontology within said computer network for storing said converted binary data, wherein said memory system defines a plurality of persistent storage containers required to contain said converted binary data;
• a memory management system for splitting and directing said converted binary data into an appropriate one of said plurality of persistent storage containers;
• one or more control and/or data-flow based programs, called widgets, each said widget having at least one input data-flow pin and at least one output data-flow pin, wherein said one or more widgets are executed on said converted binary data stored in said plurality of persistent storage containers when a matching set of data objects or tokens from said converted binary data appear on said at least one input data-flow pin of said one or more widgets;
• a set of resultant data tokens produced on said output data-flow pins of said one or more widgets, wherein said set of resultant data tokens become part of said data-flow driven environment in said persistent storage containers or in a memory of a computer within the computer network;
• a user interface having a lower querying layer and an upper querying layer, wherein said lower querying layer queries one or more registered search capability for each of said plurality of persistent storage containers which produces a list of hits, and further wherein said upper querying layer queries said list of hits with Boolean and other operators to specify logical combinations of said list of hits;
• a display device within the computer network for displaying and interacting with said plurality of streams of unstructured data, said list of hits, and said logical combinations of said list of hits through said user interface;
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• a memory collections system that forms collections of datums from said logical combinations of said list of hits and enables manipulation and exchange of said collections of datums both within a local computer as well as across the computer network, wherein a user accesses through said user interface said collections of datums for meta-analysis, and based upon said meta-analysis by said user, said user can revise said queries to refine said collections of datums.