Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Joshua Rogers Tyler

Rajan Mathew Lukose

Eytan Adar

Caesar Sengupta

Stephen Phillip Sorkin

Bernardo A Huberman

Norman Paul Jouppi

Mark David Lillibridge

Nelson Liang An Chang

I-Jong Lin

Erwin Oertli

Patrick M Goddi

Dennis Matthews Wilkinson

Andrew Dahley

Rich Gossweiler

A privacy-preserving system and method is disclosed for profiling clients within a system for knowledge management. The method of the present invention discloses steps for generating a client profile in support of receiving and processing messages using scoring techniques and/or filtering techniques. The method of the present invention further includes steps for generating a client profile in support of a method for generating and obtaining responses to messages using scoring techniques and/or filtering techniques. The system of the present invention, includes all means for implementing the method.

System and method for profiling clients within a system for harvesting community knowledge

One embodiment of the method discloses: identifying an information resource accessed by a client computer; generating an information resource pointer including an address for the information resource; and transmitting a pointer message including the information resource pointer over a network. A second embodiment of the method discloses: generating a client profile; storing the profile; receiving a pointer message containing an information resource pointer; scoring the pointer message with respect to the profile; totaling a number of times that the information resource pointer is received, over a predetermined time period; initializing a timeliness score to a maximum value; decrementing the timeliness score by a predetermined percentage each time a predetermined time period elapses after transmission by a sending client computer; generating an aggregate score; and displaying the pointer message and the aggregate score. The system of the present invention, includes all means for implementing the method.

System and method for anonymously sharing and scoring information pointers, within a system for harvesting community knowledge

A method and system for interfacing a digital device with an interactive display surface (IDS) is presented. The IDS detects the digital device when it is brought into proximity, and attempts to identify the device. The IDS communicates with the device, and displays interactive representations of information stored on the device.

Method and system for interfacing a digital device with an interactive display surface

A system and method for knowledge management is disclosed. The method discloses: monitoring messages transmitted over a peer-to-peer network; profiling the messages; receiving a messages report request; identifying message profiles corresponding to the message report request; selecting messages corresponding to the identified message profiles; and generating the requested messages report from the selected messages. The system discloses means for implementing the method.

System and method for message traffic analysis, categorization, and reporting, within a system for harvesting community knowledge

A system and method for image sharing is disclosed. The method of the present invention discloses: receiving a set of images and a transmit images command in response to the transmit images command; selecting a subset of the images in response to the transmit images command; formatting the subset of images in response to the transmit images command; and transmitting the formatted images to a recipient in response to the transmit images command. The system of the present invention discloses means for performing the method.

System and method for image sharing

A first communication device ('FCD') is adapted to communicate with a second communication device. The FCD obtains a first key, encodes an attribute in the FCD with the first key to produce a first encoded value, and transmits the first encoded value to the second communication device. The FCD also receives a second encoded value from the second communication device. The second encoded value comprises an attribute stored in the second communication device that has been encoded with a second key. Further, the FCD encodes the second encoded value with the first key to produce a third encoded value, transmits the third encoded value to the second communication device, and receives a fourth encoded value from the second communication device. The fourth encoded value comprises the first encoded value after being encoded by the second key. The FCD determines whether the third encoded value matches the fourth encoded value.

Encoded attribute matching on communication devices

A system and method for offsetting printing costs. Specifically, the method includes collecting user information about a user and generating a user profile based on the user information. The user profile is stored such that the user profile is used to achieve delivery of data that is targeted to the user based on the user profile without requiring a release of user information in the user profile. At least one offer for the delivery of data is presented to the user. The data is targeted to the user based on the user profile. Thereafter, the method determines that an item of the data presented to the user has been printed. An incentive is received for printing the item.

Method and system for offsetting printing costs in a system for targeted data delivery

A method and system retaining offers for delivering targeted data in a system for targeted data delivery. According to one embodiment, selection criteria for determining whether to present the offer for the targeted data to a user is accessed. The offer is retained even if a user profile does not satisfy the selection criteria.

Method and system for retaining offers for delivering targeted data in a system for targeted data delivery

A method and system for improving targeted data delivery. One method accesses a user profile based on information about a user from at least one electronic device from a set of electronic devices that is associated with the user. A targeted data offer is received, wherein the targeted data offer defines selection criteria for targeted user profiles. A determination is made as to whether the user profile satisfies the selection criteria. A non-user selected relevancy criteria based on the user profile is then utilized to characterize the targeted data offer.

Method and system for improving targeted data delivery

A method and system for utilizing user information to provide a network address. The method collects user information about a user from at least one electronic device that is associated with the user. In addition, a network address activity pattern is identified based on a combination of a network browsing activity and the user information. A list of network addresses that have been viewed in context of the activity pattern is then accessed. At least one network address on the list of network addresses is scored. Then, the at least one network address having a highest score is provided to the user.

Method and system for utilizing user information to provide a network address

A system and method for privacy-preserving knowledge management is disclosed. The method of the present invention discloses: generating a client computer profile from a set of data items on a client computer; generating a set of message response profiles from a corresponding set of message responses; generating a set of new message profiles from a corresponding set of new messages; storing the profiles on the client computer; and scoring a new message with respect to the client and message response profiles. The system of the present invention, discloses means for implementing the method.

System and method for scoring new messages based on previous responses within a system for harvesting community knowledge

Acquired data about communication interactions is used to form constructs which are indicative of an entity and communities-of-practice within the entity. A construction may be derived from the addressing data associated with the interactions to depict a communication network construct of the organization over time. The construction is selectively decomposed to smaller communications networks indicative of said communities-of-practice.

Discovering communities-of-practice

A system and method is disclosed for knowledge management. The method discloses the elements of: generating a client profile on a client computer connected to a network; storing the profile on the computer; receiving a new message; scoring the new message with respect to the client profile; counting a number of message responses to the new message; and re-transmitting the new message to a first sub-set of client computers on the network, based on the response count. The system discloses means for implementing the method.

System and method for modifying new message retransmission within a system for harvesting community knowledge

A system and method for automated message response within a system for knowledge management is disclosed. The method discloses the steps of: identifying a set of information resources; profiling the information resources; monitoring a transmitted message; scoring the monitored message with respect to the information resource profiles; querying an information resource with content from the monitored message, if that information resource's score exceeds a predetermined threshold; receiving a set of query responses from the information resources; generating a response to the monitored message from the query responses; and responding to the monitored message with the message response. The system of the present invention, discloses means for implementing the method.

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Stanford, CA, United States of America

Joshua Rogers Tyler