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US 8,712,988 B2Granted
Owner-brokered knowledge sharing machine
AssigneePandesa Corporation
InventorRichard P. 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.
Claims15
A system for sharing knowledge objects among registered users of a computer network, the system comprising:
- a means for managing a collection of private knowledge objects, wherein a user has access to any of the user's private knowledge objects directly;
- a means for managing a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein any user has access to any of the published knowledge objects;
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- a means for managing a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein the collection of listed knowledge objects is searchable, but wherein a listed knowledge object is inaccessible to any user other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access;
- a means for changing a private knowledge object into a listed knowledge object, wherein said private knowledge object is neither identified nor accessed by any of the users other than the user who possesses the private knowledge object;
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- a means for publishing a private knowledge object or a listed knowledge object as a published, directly accessible knowledge object;
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- wherein a search further returns a list of users ranked based on the likelihood of possession of knowledge relevant to the search.
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A method for sharing knowledge objects among registered users of a computer network, the method comprising the steps of:
- managing a collection of private knowledge objects, wherein a user has access to any of the user's private knowledge objects directly;
- managing a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein any user having been granted permission has access to any of the published knowledge objects;
- managing a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein the collection of listed knowledge objects is searchable, but wherein a listed knowledge object is inaccessible to any user other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access;
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- returning, in response to a search, a list of users ranked based on the likelihood of having contributed a listed knowledge object relevant to the search;
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- changing a private knowledge object into a listed knowledge object, wherein said private knowledge object is neither identified nor accessed by any of the users other than the user who possesses the private knowledge object;
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- publishing a private knowledge object or a listed knowledge object as a published knowledge object.
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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, wherein a user has access to any of the user's private knowledge objects directly;
- managing access to a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein any user having been granted permission has access to any of the published knowledge objects;
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- managing access to a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein the collection of listed knowledge objects is searchable, but wherein a listed knowledge object is inaccessible to any user other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access;
- changing a private knowledge object into a listed knowledge object, wherein said private knowledge object is neither identified nor accessed by any of the users other than the user who possesses the private knowledge object;
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- publishing a private knowledge object or a listed knowledge object as a published, directly accessible knowledge object;
- and
- wherein a search further returns a list of users ranked based on the likelihood of possession of knowledge relevant to the search.
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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, wherein a user has access to any of the user's private knowledge objects directly;
- managing a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein any user having been granted permission has access to any of the published knowledge objects;
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- managing a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein the collection of listed knowledge objects is searchable, but wherein a listed knowledge object is inaccessible to any user other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access;
- changing a private knowledge object into a listed knowledge object, wherein said private knowledge object is neither identified nor accessed by any of the users other than the user who possesses the private knowledge object;
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- publishing a private knowledge object or a listed knowledge object as a published knowledge object;
- and
- wherein a search further returns a list of users ranked based on the likelihood of possession of knowledge relevant to the search.
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A non-transitory 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, wherein a user has access to any of the user's private knowledge objects directly;
- managing access to a collection of published knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein any user has access to any of the published knowledge objects;
- and
- managing access to a collection of listed knowledge objects contributed by one or more users, wherein the collection of listed knowledge objects is searchable, but wherein a listed knowledge object is inaccessible to any user other than the user who contributed the listed knowledge object unless the user who contributed the listed knowledge object authorizes the proposed access;
- changing a private knowledge object into a listed knowledge object, wherein said private knowledge object is neither identified nor accessed by any of the users other than the user who possesses the private knowledge object;
- and
- publishing a private knowledge object or a listed knowledge object as a published, directly accessible knowledge object;
- and
- wherein a search further returns a list of users ranked based on the likelihood of possession of knowledge relevant to the search.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.