Patent ID: 9361269
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising the steps of: maintaining a database of information representing knowledge attributable to at least one distributed entity in a plurality of elements, wherein at least a portion of the information is indicative of at least one of a previous expansion, a previous transfer and a previous leveraging of the knowledge attributable to the at least one distributed entity; performing a predictive analysis for an interval of time specified by a user on at least a portion of the information to selectively generate one or more recommendations for a future expansion, a future transfer and a future leveraging of the knowledge attributable to the at least one distributed entity for the user-specified interval of time, wherein the predictive analysis comprises: providing an interface for presenting the one or more recommendations in the form of a user-controllable display to provide the user with a visualization of the one or more recommendations; wherein calculating the one or more metrics comprises: receiving user selection of one or more context and constraint parameters for the visualization; and dynamically calculating the metrics based on the user-selected context and constraint parameters; wherein presenting the one or more recommendations comprises: displaying the dynamically calculated metrics in a dashboard of the user-controllable display; and providing the visualization based on the dynamically calculated metrics; and wherein the steps are performed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.