Abstract: A system and method to control the review and publication of affinities. The system and method can be tailored to provide flexibility in the ways that affinity publication is controlled, thereby accommodating different cultural and legal constraints on information access. In one aspect, the system and method allows a person who is the subject of a proposed affinities to review the affinity and then approve or deny publication of the affinity before the affinity is made known to others, thus avoiding inappropriate publication. Advantageously, the system and method enable the person to review the affinity in a context that increases the likelihood that only accurate affinities will be published.

Abstract: A system, method, and processor readable medium for processing data in a knowledge management system gathers information content and transmits a work request for the information content gathered. The information content may be registered with a content map and assigned a unique document identifier. A work queue processes the work requests. The processed information may then be transmitted to another work queue for further processing. Further processing may include categorization, full-text indexing, metrics extraction or other process. Control messages may be transmitted to one or more users providing a status of the work request. The information may be analyzed and further indexed. A progress statistics report may be generated for each of the processes performed on the document. The progress statistics may be provided in a record. A shared access to a central data structure representing the metrics history and taxonomy may be provided for all work queues via a CORBA service.

Abstract: The present invention enables a flexible system for representing relationships among computing resources, assigning them strengths, and versioning them over time. One advantage is that all of the various ways that these entities are named in the real world can be normalized into a common model of identifiers (IDs) and types such that universal manipulations by class are possible without losing the capability to present the resulting information back with the original entity names or even with multiple equivalent names.

Abstract: The present invention enables a flexible system for representing relationships among computing resources, assigning them strengths, and versioning them over time. One advantage is that all of the various ways that these entities are named in the real world can be normalized into a common model of identifiers (IDs) and types such that universal manipulations by class are possible without losing the capability to present the resulting information back with the original entity names or even with multiple equivalent names.

Abstract: A system and method to control the review and publication of affinities. The system and method can be tailored to provide flexibility in the ways that affinity publication is controlled, thereby accommodating different cultural and legal constraints on information access. In one aspect, the system and method allows a person who is the subject of a proposed affinities to review the affinity and then approve or deny publication of the affinity before the affinity is made known to others, thus avoiding inappropriate publication. Advantageously, the system and method enable the person to review the affinity in a context that increases the likelihood that only accurate affinities will be published.

Abstract: A system, method, and processor readable medium for processing data in a knowledge management system gathers information content and transmits a work request for the information content gathered. The information content may be registered with a content map and assigned a unique document identifier. A work queue processes the work requests. The processed information may then be transmitted to another work queue for further processing. Further processing may include categorization, full-text indexing, metrics extraction or other process. Control messages may be transmitted to one or more users providing a status of the work request. The information may be analyzed and further indexed. A progress statistics report may be generated for each of the processes performed on the document. The progress statistics may be provided in a record. A shared access to a central data structure representing the metrics history and taxonomy may be provided for all work queues via a CORBA service.

Abstract: A system and method for mining a user's e-mail and for generating a list of categories based on the e-mail content. The generated category list is compared to a master category list and those categories included in the generated category list that are not included in the master category list are removed from the generated category list. For each category remaining in the generated category list, the system and method calculates an affinity value, which represents the strength of the user's relationship to the category. The affinity (i.e., the concept plus the affinity value) may be submitted to an affinity publisher module that uses an affinity publication policy in determining whether or not to publish the affinity.

Abstract: An affinity generation system according to the present invention analyzes a profiled user's authorship and document usage within an ‘intranet’ to create a set of affinities between documents and topical classifications used in a hierarchical content catalog. These affinities are weighted depending on the system usage and amount of collected evidence. Once a certain threshold has been reached, the threshold being fixed or dynamically set to achieve a desired policy, the affinities are published into the content catalog. The user looking for specific expertise can then search or browse the content catalog and find both documents and people with strong affinities to the selected content area.