Personalized semantic controls

Abstract

A method, machine readable storage medium, and system for providing personalized semantic controls for semantic systems. A semantic network may be set up with initial configuration. A business application user interface, including semantic controls, may be coupled to the semantic network to interact with the semantic network. Semantic objects and relations may be defined in the semantic network for business terminology. A user request for business data may be received. The semantic network may update the objects and relations for business terminology based on the request. The business application user interface may provide for personalized semantic controls based on the updated objects and relations.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A method for providing personalized semantic controls for a semantic system, comprising:
 setting up, by a computer processor, an initial configuration for a semantic network;   defining, by the processor, business terms using semantic objects and semantic relations in the semantic network;   providing, by the processor, a user interface for accessing the semantic network;   receiving, by the processor, a user request for business data, the request including business terms;   assessing, by the processor, the context of the business terms within the user request;   updating, by the processor, the semantic objects and relations for the business terms based on the context; and   updating, by the processor, controls of the user interface based on the updated semantic objects and relations.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , the providing further comprising:
 providing, by the processor, a client application having a controller to control display of information to the user interface and to interact with a semantic controller.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the initial configuration for the semantic network is imported from a predetermined set of business objects. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the semantic network is local to the user interface. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the semantic network is remote from the user interface. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the semantic network is a learnable contextual network remote from the user interface. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the semantic objects and relations include at least one of: user preference information based on user roles; knowledge domains for the business terms; indicators indicating importance of business terms based on user roles; contextual relationships for business terms. 
     
     
         8 . A non-transitory machine readable storage medium embodied with computer instructions for causing a processor to execute a process for providing personalized semantic controls for a semantic system, the process comprising:
 setting up an initial configuration for a semantic network;   defining business terms using semantic objects and semantic relations in the semantic network;   providing a user interface to access the semantic network;   receiving a user request for business data, the request including business terms;   assessing the context of the business terms within the user request;   updating the semantic objects and relations for the business terms based on the context; and   updating controls of the user interface based on the updated semantic objects and relations.   
     
     
         9 . The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of  claim 8 , wherein the process further comprising:
 providing a client application to control display of the controls to the user interface.   
     
     
         10 . The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of  claim 8 , wherein the semantic network is co-located with the user interface. 
     
     
         11 . The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of  claim 8 , wherein the semantic network is remote from the user interface. 
     
     
         12 . The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of  claim 11 , wherein the process further comprising:
 dispatching the user request to the remote semantic network remote from the user interface to assess the semantic objects and relations;   
     
     
         13 . The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of  claim 8 , wherein the initial configuration for the semantic network is extracted from a predetermined set of business objects. 
     
     
         14 . The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of  claim 8 , wherein the semantic objects and relations include at least one of: user preferences information based on user roles; knowledge domains for the business terms; indicators indicating importance of business terms based on user roles; contextual relationships for business terms. 
     
     
         15 . A system for providing a personalized semantic controls, the system comprising:
 a database for storing business data related to an enterprise;   a user input-output device coupled to the database;   a processor responsive to inputs from the user input device and coupled to the database, the processor configured to:
 set up an initial configuration for a semantic network; 
 build objects and relations in the semantic network; 
 receive a user request for business data; 
 access the semantic network via a semantic dispatcher; 
 update the indexes and semantic indexes; and 
 update controls of the user input-output device based on the updated indexes and semantic indexes. 
   
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
 retrieving a document from the semantic network that matches the user request;   receiving markups or bookmarks for the document; and   update indexes and semantic indexes with the user markups or bookmarks.   
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the semantic network is co-located with the user interface. 
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the semantic network is remote from the user interface. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the semantic network is a learnable contextual network remote from the user interface. 
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the semantic indexes includes at least one of: user preference information based on user roles; knowledge domains for business terms; indicators indicating importance of business terms based on user roles; contextual relationships for business terms. 
     
     
         21 . A system to provide personalized semantic controls for a user interface, comprising:
 a database for storing business data related to an enterprise, wherein the user interface is coupled to the database;   a processor responsive to inputs from the user interface and coupled to the database, the processor configured to:
 set up an initial configuration for a semantic network, 
 build semantic objects and relations for a plurality of business terms in the semantic network, wherein the semantic objects and relations include at least one of: user preference information based on one or more user roles, knowledge domains for business terms, indicators indicating importance of business terms based on the one or more user roles, contextual relationships for business terms; 
 receive a user request to the user interface for business data, the request to include one or more business terms; 
 assess the one or more business terms within the user request, wherein the assessment is to determine a knowledge domain, context, concept, and term type for the one or more business terms based on user roles of the user request; 
 update the semantic objects and relations in the semantic network for the one or more business terms based on the user request assessment; and 
 update the controls of the user interface based on the updated semantic objects and relations.