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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2009
James E. Christensen, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Daniel M. Gruen, Newton, MA (US);
Susanne Hupfer, Lexington, MA (US);
Stephen E. Levy, Honolulu, HI (US);
John F. Patterson, Carlisle, MA (US);
Jamie C. Rasmussen, Somerville, MA (US);
Steven I. Ross, South Hamilton, MA (US);
James E. Christensen, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Daniel M. Gruen, Newton, MA (US);
Susanne Hupfer, Lexington, MA (US);
Stephen E. Levy, Honolulu, HI (US);
John F. Patterson, Carlisle, MA (US);
Jamie C. Rasmussen, Somerville, MA (US);
Steven I. Ross, South Hamilton, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An expertise locator enables user defined correspondences between experts and respective certain objects. Each object inherits from classes in a hierarchy. Using the correspondences, a locator processor routine finds a candidate expert about a particular subject area. The candidate expert may be in a correspondence with a certain object whose class is a subclass of the particular subject area. Output may display an indication of the candidate expert, relevant expertise per candidate and/or a list of experts per certain object. In the case of the certain objects being topics, the hierarchy is an ontology of the topics.