Link clouds and user/community-driven dynamic interlinking of resources

US8683344B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Matthias Falkenberg · Stuttgart, DE
• Hendrik Haddorp · Holzgerlingen, DE
• Stephan Laertz · Herrenberg, DE
• Andreas Nauerz · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 8, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Jul 3, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A network-based communication and information discovery solution that pertains to network-accessible resources and the use of interlinks among resources. In one embodiment, dynamic interlinking of resources is proposed, wherein the resources reside in a web-based system and are accessible via web-clients. The resources can be representable by an administrator in a graph-like structure interlinking the resources with each other and thus defining a navigation model. An extended navigation model can be implemented by a user-generated, personal or collaborative interlinking functionality.