Interactive and Social Knowledge Discovery Sessions

Abstract

There are provided methods and systems to assist interactively a knowledge user/contributor to obtain a straight answer to his/her request for knowledge about one or more subject matters, to mediates a large group of unknown inquirers and present them with distilled stage of knowledge related to a subject matter, or to guide and assist by providing knowledge graphs of bodies of knowledge and navigation tools, individually or socially, to find or discover credible and value significant knowledge based on value significance aspects and measures, at much faster rate than the current traditional method of using search engine directories, social networking, blogging, and bookmarking websites. Generally the presented systems, methods, formulations and algorithms, provide intelligent and knowledgeable agents which learn from bodies of knowledge and assist, converse, measuring the merit of users' input, mediate and participate in a group discussions, provide and compose high value content in demand to users of such systems. The methods, systems and services of the presented disclosure significantly increases productivity of knowledge-based users, the quality of their work, and accelerating the rate of knowledge discoveries.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of interactive and social knowledge discovery service comprising:
 receiving one or more inputs from one or more users;   providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, an interactive session interface for the one or more users to interact with a computer program comprising instructions executable by one or more data processing or computing devices, configured, when executed using one or more data processing or computing devices, to:
 provide an answer or a response respective of the one or more users' input, wherein the answer is composed using one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of a body of knowledge having scored a predefined range of value significance according to at least one value significance measure; and 
   providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, an environment for interaction between said computer program and said one or more users respective of one or more inputs from the one or more users so as to have an interactive and social knowledge discovery session.   
     
     
         2 . The method  claim 1 , wherein the environment for interaction is further configured to represent a user in the interactive environment by a visual object visible on the display or screening device of at least one of the user. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the environment for interaction is visually displayed on a display device or screen as a virtual roundtable conveying a group discussion environment. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more inputs from the one or more users are added to the body of knowledge. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein said answer is composed using association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects or partitions of the body of knowledge. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein said computer program further provides a score of value significance for a user's input using a body of knowledge comprising one or more inputs from the one or more users and at least one of the partitions of the body of knowledge of the interactive and social knowledge discovery session. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: providing an option to another user, with interest in similar or associated subject matters to the ontological subjects of the body of knowledge of the interactive and social knowledge discovery session, to join in the interactive and social knowledge discovery session based on their input. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein said computer program is further configured to provide a plurality of options to a user to obtain one or more content related to the body of knowledge of the interactive and social knowledge discovery session. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: enabling the one or more users to edit or compose a composition and/or add compositions to the body of knowledge of the interactive and social knowledge discovery session. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: providing a reward to at least one user whose input has scored a predefined level of value significance, said value significance is a function of one or more value significance measures, in the body of knowledge of the interactive and social knowledge discovery session. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: measuring impact value of a user's contribution to the body of knowledge as a function of the variations in the value significances of one or more partitions or one or more ontological subjects of the body of knowledge after a predefined number of the one or more users' input from one or more user and/or a predetermined time interval. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: interactively exploring details of the body of knowledge wherein a user input further specific query and obtain at least one respective piece of content in response to the query. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , further comprising: finding a preferred research trajectory to a user based on interaction tracks or one or more past inputs of the one or more users. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: providing a mediating environment by scoring a user's input, based on at least one value significance measure, and demonstrating the significance of the user's input to other users of the interactive and social knowledge exploration session. 
     
     
         15 . A method of social search and/or social interactive knowledge discovery comprising:
 providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a searching utility environment wherein a participant can input a query or content;   creating, using one or more data processing or computing devices, an interactive session related to a body of knowledge in response to a participant's input to the searching utility;   providing, using one or more data processing or computing devices, a social and interactive environment for one or more participants wherein at least one participant can input content, and   providing or composing a content, using one or more data processing or computing devices, useable by one or more participants based on one or more input from one or more participants in the session, wherein the content is composed using partitions or ontological subjects of a body of knowledge based on their value significances according to at least one value significance measure.   
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein one of the participants is an intelligent agent that provides dynamic contents in response to a participant's input. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein the agent is a computer program module having instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer system, said computer system having at least one processing device and one or more data communication interfaces, will perform:
 a. identifying a body of knowledge related to a participant's input,   b. analyzing the participant's input and providing a respective answer wherein the answer is composed using partitions or ontological subjects of a body of knowledge having scored a predefined range of value significance, said value significance is a function of at least one value significance measure, and having at last one predefined type of relationship with the participant's input.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the agent further scores value significance of the user's input, based on at least one value significance measure, using data of the body of knowledge. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein said content is composed using association strengths between a plurality of ontological subjects or partitions of the body of knowledge. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the content is shared and/or published by one or more of the participants in a predetermined medium. 
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 15 , further configured to provide platforms to one or more participants to establish an online journal and the agent provides assistance to evaluate value of the inputs in respect to the knowledge existed in the body of knowledge. 
     
     
         22 . A system of providing at least one service over a data network comprising:
 at least one computer program comprising programming codes which, when executed by one or more data processing or computing devices, cause to create an interactive session environment for obtaining an input from a user;   at least one first computer program comprising programing codes configured, when executed by one or more data processing or computing devices, to access at least one content, said at least one content is output of at least one second computer program comprising programing codes which, when executed by one or more data processing or computing devices, configured to perform:
 i. accessing at least one body of knowledge, 
 ii. composing an output using the ontological subjects or partitions of body of the knowledge according to the user's input and value of at least one measure of value significance of the ontological subjects or the partitions of the body of knowledge; and 
   at least one server, comprising one or more information processing or computing device and programing codes imbedded in one or more no-transitory computing readable media, to respond to the user's input or send the output over a network.   
     
     
         23 . The system of  claim 22 , wherein the body of knowledge is accessed based on the user's input or is provided by the user.