Patent ID: 6694329
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for organizing information into a concept network, creating an explicit model of the thinking processes of a person or community of people that facilitates the creation and sharing knowledge, including the steps of:categorizing ideas and thoughts into concepts; creating links between concepts; assigning link attributes to each link between concepts, each attribute having a direction; categorizing information into objects; categorizing objects into concepts; assigning object attributes to each object; creating links between objects; and assigning link attributes to each link between objects, the direction value of the attribute being inherited from the link between corresponding concepts; and providing personal agents associated with people, with each personal agent functioning to serve the knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and decision making needs of its associated person wherein the concept network includes accountable objects, which are directly or indirectly accountable for other objects, and wherein an action priority rating for an accountable object is calculated by evaluating some or all of the following: the importance of each object for which the accountable object is accountable; the degree of accountability between the accountable object and each object; the extent to which the accountable object has addressed all issues and actions associate with each object; the time which has elapsed since the accountable object last considered each object; a review cycle duration; and risk and success values associated with each object.