Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110320396 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND SYNTHESIZING COMPLEX KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including both an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to analyze an input complex KR to deconstruct its complex concepts and/or concept relationships to elemental concepts and/or concept relationships to be included in the elemental data structure. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to synthesize an output complex KR from the stored elemental data structure in accordance with an input context. Multiple input complex KRs of various types may be analyzed and deconstructed to populate the elemental data structure, and input complex KRs may be transformed through the elemental data structure to output complex KRs of different types, providing semantic interoperability to KRs of different types and/or KR models. | 12-29-2011 |
20120150874 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO ONE OR MORE USERS - Methods and system for providing information selected from a large set of digital content to at least one user. One such method comprises receiving user context information associated with the at least one user and identifying or generating, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a first concept in a semantic network, the first concept representing at least a portion of the user context information. The method further comprises obtaining at least one concept, including a second concept, semantically relevant to the first concept at least in part, by synthesizing the second concept based on the first concept and at least one other concept in the semantic network; and providing information to the at least one user, wherein the information is selected by using the first concept and the at least one obtained concept semantically relevant to the first concept, wherein the first concept in a semantic network is represented by a data structure storing any data associated with a node in the semantic network. | 06-14-2012 |
20120166371 | KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING DATA CONSUMER MODELS AND PREFERENCES - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including both an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to analyze an input complex KR to deconstruct its complex concepts and/or concept relationships to elemental concepts and/or concept relationships to be included in the elemental data structure. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to synthesize an output complex KR from the stored elemental data structure in accordance with context information. Methods of populating an elemental data structure and methods of synthesizing complex KRs from the elemental data structure may depend on user models, context information, preference information, and/or preference models. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING STATISTICAL INFERENCE TECHNIQUES TO KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including both an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to analyze an input complex KR to deconstruct its complex concepts and/or concept relationships to elemental concepts and/or concept relationships to be included in the elemental data structure. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to synthesize an output complex KR from the stored elemental data structure in accordance with context information. Methods of populating an elemental data structure and methods of synthesizing a complex KR from the elemental data structure may rely on statistical inference techniques. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166373 | KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING INFERENCE RULES - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including both an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to analyze an input complex KR to deconstruct its complex concepts and/or concept relationships to elemental concepts and/or concept relationships to be included in the elemental data structure. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to synthesize an output complex KR from the stored elemental data structure in accordance with context information. Methods of populating an elemental data structure and methods of synthesizing complex KRs from the elemental data structure may rely on linguistic inference rules and/or elemental inference rules. | 06-28-2012 |
20120323899 | PREFERENCE-GUIDED SEMANTIC PROCESSING - Techniques for specifying user preferences in a semantic network. The techniques include receiving, using at least one processor, a plurality of first-order user preferences for at least one concept in a semantic network, wherein the plurality of first-order user preferences are indicative of a user's preferences among children of attributes of the at least one concept in the semantic network; receiving, using the at least one processor, at least one second-order user preference for the at least one concept in the semantic network, wherein the at least one second-order user preference is indicative of the user's preferences among attributes of the at least one concept; and performing at least one semantic processing act by using the semantic network, the plurality of first-order user preferences, and the at least one second-order user preference. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323910 | IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF INTEREST BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - Techniques for calculating a ranking of at least one item in a plurality of items. The techniques include receiving user preferences comprising a plurality of first-order user preferences indicative of a user's preferences for items in the plurality of items, and at least one second-order user preference indicative of the user's preferences among first-order user preferences in the plurality of first-order user preferences; calculating, with at least one processor, a ranking of the at least one item in the plurality of items based, at least in part on, at least one data structure encoding a preference graph that represents the received user preferences; and identifying and outputting at least a subset of the plurality of items to a user, in accordance with the ranking. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING PREFERENCES WITH A USER INTERFACE - Techniques for obtaining user preferences. The techniques include receiving user context information associated with at least one user; identifying, based at least in part on the received user context information, a plurality of attributes of items in a plurality of items; obtaining, using at least one processor, at least one first-order user preference based at least in part on a first input provided by the at least one user, wherein the plurality of first-order user preferences comprises a preference for a first attribute in the plurality of attributes; and obtaining, using the at least one processor, at least one second-order user preference based at least in part on a second input provided by the at least one user, wherein the at least one second-order user preference comprises a preference among attributes in the plurality of attributes. | 12-20-2012 |
20130007124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SEMANTIC OPERATION ON A DIGITAL SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed is a system and method for performing a semantic operation on a social network. In an embodiment, the method comprises receiving a social network user context associated with a user of the social network; generating, through a semantic operation, an interest network based on the user context information; and filtering, ranking or augmenting, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a retrieval of information related to the social network based on the interest network; wherein the interest network comprises concepts represented by a data structure associated with the concepts in the interest network. In another embodiment, the method further comprises representing the interest network as an interest graph. In yet another embodiment, the semantic operation is a synthesis operation or retrieval operation performed on a knowledge representation. | 01-03-2013 |
20130046723 | KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING CUSTOMIZATION - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules that are machine-readable. The elemental data structure may include a universal kernel and customized modules, which may represent knowledge that is generally applicable to a population and knowledge that is specifically applicable to individual data consumers, respectively. | 02-21-2013 |
20130060785 | KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING CUSTOMIZATION - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. The elemental data structure may include a universal kernel and one or more customized modules. The universal kernel may represent knowledge that is generally applicable to a population, and the customized modules may represent knowledge that is specifically applicable to individual data consumers. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066823 | KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING CUSTOMIZATION - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules that are machine-readable. The elemental data structure may include a universal kernel and customized modules, which may represent knowledge that is generally applicable to a population and knowledge that is specifically applicable to individual data consumers, respectively. | 03-14-2013 |
20130246328 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CUSTOMIZING KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS - Techniques for customizing knowledge representation systems including identifying, based on a plurality of concepts in a knowledge representation (KR), a group of one or more concepts relevant to user context information, and providing the identified group of one more concepts to a user. The KR may include a combination of modules. The modules may include a kernel and a customized module customized for the user. The kernel may accessible via a second KR. | 09-19-2013 |