Patent ID: 7065532
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for evaluating information aggregates to enable visualization of relationships behind a process of knowledge creation and maintenance and to infer context specific knowledge trends and dynamics to evaluate organizational change initiatives and to implement training programs to facilitate communication of key topics, comprising: collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate; partitioning a visualization portfolio into people, community, system and category domains for enabling visualization of said context specific knowledge trends and dynamics including identification of individuals creating and receiving knowledge, individuals targeted as field experts, group communication dynamics, and categories of information that are thriving and those lacking activity; identifying through analysis of document content a set of categories associated with said documents; visualizing said categories, including selectively determining and visualizing how said category spreads through space over time, how said category spreads through conceptual space over time, and how said category spreads through physical space over time; displaying for said aggregate a frequency distribution of categories and a visualization of changes of said frequency distribution over time; and responsive to said visualizing and displaying steps, selectively evaluating organizational change initiatives and implementing training programs to facilitate communication of key topics among said individuals and within said group.