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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2010
Sanjay Dhall, Canton, MI (US);
Sanjay Dhall, Canton, MI (US);
Emergent Systems Corporation, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for ranking experts in a knowledge management system. A plurality of data elements are stored in a database, the data elements having substantive technical data and bibliographic information encoded therein. A result set is produced from the database in response to a user query, the result set including data elements having technical data encoded therein that corresponds to the query. An expert list is produced based on the bibliographic information for the data elements contained in the result set. Each expert in the expert list is ranked based on criteria associated with the result set to produce a ranked expert list.