Patent ID: 9171258
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: G06N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: gathering, by a computing device, information about a first subject from the Internet, the first subject related to an educational project assigned to a user; generating, by the computing device, a knowledge database for storing the information gathered; receiving, by the computing device, a geographical query of locations of people who have published information related to the first subject; transmitting, by the computing device to a user for display, a map showing different clusters of people who have published information related to the first subject; receiving, by the computing device from the user, a selection of a cluster to find out additional information about the first subject from that cluster; after the generating, improving, by the computing device, the knowledge database by incorporating inputs related to the information from one or more users, the improving comprising organizing ratings about content data in the knowledge database in accordance with a predefined ranking method, organizing comments about the content data in the knowledge database, and categorizing content data in the knowledge database in accordance with a plurality of predetermined categories; publishing, by the computing device, the knowledge database on the Internet; performing, by the computing device, a search of the first subject against the knowledge database; and continuously improving, by the computing device, the knowledge database in an iterative fashion using results of the search of the first subject.