[topicmapmail] New U.S. Patent on classification schemes

[Jack Park]

This one is a doozy. From [1]
<quote>
Kanisa Inc., the leading provider of knowledge-empowered customer 
service applications, announced today it has been issued U.S. Patent # 
6,711,585 entitled "System and method for implementing a knowledge 
management system" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The patent, awarded to Kanisa for its knowledge management technology, 
protects its multi-dimensional representation of knowledge, enabling 
effective searching for knowledge within a complex information space.

The newly patented technique classifies knowledge objects such as 
documents, web pages, products, people, organizations, products, and 
links to applications into multiple distinct taxonomies. This allows for 
a rich multi-dimensional search and enables the full context of the 
query to affect the relevancy of results.
</quote>
The patent is found at [2].
To reconstruct that enormous URL, go to http://www.uspto.gov/ and search 
under patents for 6711585

It's a pretty amazing read. Sure makes you wonder...

Jack

[1] http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Jul/1053990.htm
[2] 
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=6711585&OS=6711585&RS=6711585