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Automatic management of terms in a user profile in a knowledge management system
Assignee: Oracle International Corp
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Filing: 2000-10-25
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Granted: 2003-10-28
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Expires: 2020-10-25
Abstract
Abstract An agent in a knowledge management system automatically manages profile terms in a user profile by selecting certain terms in a private portion of the user profile and moving the selected terms to a public portion of the profile. Additionally, the selected terms can be further filtered to determine which will be moved. The owner of the user profile also may specify whether a particular term is always moved, never moved, or moved only when the user is alerted that the term is selected and the owner chooses to move the term.
Inventors
- 👤 David L. Gilmour
- 👤 Hernan Epelman-Wang
- 👤 Jonathan M. Goldberg
- 👤 Richard Sanders
- 👤 Eric Wang
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 12:14
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/30; G06F16/33; G06F16/335; G06F16/337; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99939; Y10S707/99941; Y10S707/99943
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
61 words
A method of automatically managing profile terms within a private portion and a public portion of a user profile in a knowledge management system, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of profile terms allocated to the private portion of the user profile according to first pre-determined criterion; and moving the selected profile terms to the public portion of the user profile.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
61 words
A method of automatically managing profile terms within a private portion and a public portion of a user profile in a knowledge management system, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of profile terms allocated to the private portion of the user profile according to first pre-determined criterion; and moving the selected profile terms to the public portion of the user profile.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the profile terms are moved in accordance with second pre-determined criterion.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
49 words
The method of claim 2 , wherein the profile terms allocated to the private portion of the user profile have a confidence value based on a contextual characteristic of the profile terms within an electronic document and the second pre-determined criterion is a threshold level for the confidence value.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
50 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the profile terms allocated to the private portion of the user profile have a confidence value based on a contextual characteristic of the first profile term within an electronic document and the first pre-determined criterion is a threshold level for the confidence value.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 4 further comprising: selecting a pre-determined profile term without reference to its confidence value.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the profile terms is repeated on a periodic basis.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 6 , wherein a profile term is not selected if it has been previously selected.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
40 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising: associating a treatment option for a profile term allocated to the private portion of the user profile to determine when the profile term is moved to the public portion of the user profile.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 8 , wherein the treatment option is chosen from the group consisting of never, always, and watch.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 9 further comprising: requesting permission from an owner of the user profile to move the selected profile terms when the treatment option is watch.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
111 words
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method to automatically allocate profile terms between a public and private profile of a user, the computer-executable instructions comprising: applying a pre-determined selection criterion to the profile terms stored within the private profile for a user to select a set of profile terms; and performing an operation on each profile term in the set, the operation chosen from the group consisting of: moving a profile term in the set to the public profile of the user, blocking a profile term in the set from further selection, and alerting the user of the selection of a profile term for the set.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
111 words
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method to automatically allocate profile terms between a public and private profile of a user, the computer-executable instructions comprising: applying a pre-determined selection criterion to the profile terms stored within the private profile for a user to select a set of profile terms; and performing an operation on each profile term in the set, the operation chosen from the group consisting of: moving a profile term in the set to the public profile of the user, blocking a profile term in the set from further selection, and alerting the user of the selection of a profile term for the set.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
46 words
The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the profile terms stored within the private profile have a confidence value based on a contextual characteristic of a profile term within an electronic document and the predetermined selection criterion is a threshold level for the confidence value.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
41 words
The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein profile terms are retained within the private profile for a pre-determined time period and the pre-determined selection criterion comprises a time period window of equal or less duration than the pre-determined time period.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
43 words
The computer-readable medium of claim 11 having further computer-executable instructions comprising: moving the profile term to a public profile of the user when the operation performed on the profile term alerts the user of the selection of the profile term for the set.
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