Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-09
2003-02-18
Breene, John (Department: 2177)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000, C709S201000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06523044
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, and particularly relates to such a method and a memory medium directed to the collecting, storing, and retrieving of express knowledge utilized in business corporations.
In detail, the present invention relates to such a method of and a memory medium storing programs for registering knowledge in a computerized library and providing retrieved knowledge to one who requested a retrieval of particular knowledge.
2. Description of the Related Art
When there is a need for collecting knowledge such as regarding research and development, marketing, managerial works, or the like, a research and development department, a marketing department, a managerial-work department, or the like collects knowledge by contacting people who have relevant knowledge. Such knowledge may be obtained via a personal interview after an appropriate person to contact is referenced by each responsible department. Alternatively, knowledge may be obtained in a document format after contacting an appropriate source of information to provide such knowledge.
If an appropriate person who was in charge of a relevant work is no longer available because of reassignment, retirement, relocation, etc., record files may be accessed to obtain knowledge.
When collecting information from a computerized library located in a different department, a personal visit may be made to that department to obtain the information. Alternatively, such information stored in a computerized library in a different department may be printed out and faxed over to a department which requested the information.
Knowledge involved in business operations of a corporation is by no means in the possession of each individual as memory-retained personal knowledge. This gives a rise to the following problems:
knowledge of an individual will be lost when this individual leaves because of retirement, relocation, etc.;
it is difficult to find a correct person when others try to obtain relevant knowledge; and
even when a correct person is identified, relevant knowledge is not readily obtained if this person is in a remote location such as in a foreign country or taking a long vacation.
Also, a computerized library is usually not managed as a company-wide resource, but each department responsible for its own information manages its own computerized library. This makes it harder for other departments to access a computerized library that belongs to another department. Further, there is a problem in that storing knowledge in a computerized library takes a lengthy time.
Accordingly, there is a need for a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can reduce a manual labor involved in storing knowledge in a computerized library so as to save time and labor, and can make knowledge of each individual readily available to other people which knowledge would be otherwise buried as individual's personal possession.
Further, there is a need for a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can make search based on an agent function with respect to computerized libraries distributed within a corporation, and can allow users to retrieve knowledge without paying attention to a physical location of such knowledge.
Moreover, there is a need for a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can determine attributes of knowledge stored in a computerized library based on characteristic information of the library, and can allow users to retrieve knowledge only relevant to a desired attribute.
Also, there is a need for a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can automatically extract frequently-accessed information, useful information, or the like for use by experts in relevant fields, and can allows such information to be refined into more usable or more accurate information and to be restored in the computerized library.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to provide a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can satisfy the needs described above.
It is another and more specific object of the present invention to provide a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can reduce a manual labor involved in storing knowledge in a computerized library so as to save time and labor, and can make knowledge of each individual readily available to other people which knowledge would be otherwise buried as individual's personal possession.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can make search based on an agent function with respect to computerized libraries distributed within a corporation, and can allow users to retrieve knowledge without paying attention to a physical location of such knowledge.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can determine attributes of knowledge stored in a computerized library based on characteristic information of the library, and can allow users to retrieve knowledge only relevant to a desired attribute.
It is further another object of the present invention to provide a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge and a memory medium storing programs for collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge, wherein the method and the programs can automatically extract frequently-accessed information, useful information, or the like for use by experts in relevant fields, and can allows such information to be refined into more usable or more accurate information and to be restored in the computerized library.
In order to achieve the above objects according to the present invention, a method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge includes the steps of collecting knowledge information from information-source terminals via a network, the knowledge information including information regarding research and development, problems, and solutions of the problems, storing the collected knowledge information in libraries by classifying the collected knowledge information based on a type and an attribute of the collected knowledge information, organizing the stored knowledge information based on importance and frequency of use thereof. storing the organized knowledge information in the libraries after standardizing the organized knowledge information so as to be usable by others, and retrieving the standardized knowledge information from a library in response to a retrieval request so as to provide the retrieved information for a requesting party which made the retrieval request.
According to one aspect of the present invention, the method as described above is such that the standardized knowledge information stored in the libraries is grouped according to the type, the attribute, an area, and a group to which the library belongs is identified based on content
Kikuchi Masayoshi
Kitajima Hironobu
Masuoka Ryusuke
Muramoto Tetsuya
Yugami Nobuhiro
Breene John
Lewis Cheryl
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