Knowledge management across distributed entity

US8706683B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• EMC Corporation · US

Inventors

• Stephen J. Todd · Shrewsbury, US
• Ivan Gumenyuk · Saint Petersburg, RU
• Pavel Egorov · Saint Petersburg, RU
• Inga Petryaevskaya · Saint Petersburg, RU
• Padraig D. Murphy · Glanmire, IE
• Shareef Muhammad Mahmoud Bassiouny · Giza, EG
• Karthikeyan Srinivasan · Fremont, US
• Yael Villa · Nes Ziona, IL
• Jidong Chen · Beijing, CN
• Qiyan Chen · Shanghai, CN
• Sudhir Vijendra · Westborough, US
• Calvin Donahue Smith · Framingham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 28, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Information processing techniques are disclosed for managing knowledge across a distributed entity. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A database of information is maintained representing knowledge attributable to at least one distributed entity. An interface is provided for presenting at least a portion of the information maintained in the database and for presenting one or more responses to one or more queries to the database. At least a portion of the one or more responses is indicative of at least one of an expansion, a transfer and a leveraging of the knowledge attributable to the at least one distributed entity.