This has also come on the radar screen within the
KM Research Group at George
Washington Univ (which includes some folks from MITRE). In those
conversations, Dr. Rudy Garrity has suggested that, "Published KM
authors, educational institutions, and leading KM using firms should send
official letters of protest to the Patent Office ASAP." Dr.
Garrity has also pointed out the US Government has hundreds of portal
based, facilitated COPs spanning a wide range of departments and
communities.
Bo Newman
KM-Forum.org
At 10:57 AM 11/3/2006 -0500, you wrote:
There has been a lively discussion
on this (I was the instigator) at
MITRE the past couple of days. No real drawn conclusions - more
questions than answers.
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Antoinette Arsic , Information Scientist, M.S.
The MITRE Corporation
703-983-5286 (office)
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Yim
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] [cwe-talk] Patent Issued for Community
ofPractice method
Thank you very much, Bo. ... Very interesting, indeed.
(Can't do the attachment for the open lists, but) The
online version of this "Knowledge management system and
method" patent (US Patent 7,127,440 - Jeanblanc et
al., October 24, 2006) is available at:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PAL
L&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,127,440.PN.&O
S=PN/7,127,440&RS=PN/7,127,440
It is well documented. I like the comprehensive lists
of references cited too. In particular,
o application US2002/0073080 - " Method and
apparatus for an information server" where the use of
metadata in RDF and various agent processes are used -
see:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2
Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=2002007308
0.PGNR.&OS=DN/20020073080&RS=DN/20020073080
&
o appllication US2002/0138590- " System method and
article of manufacture for creating a virtual
university experience" - see:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG
01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%222002013859
0%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20020138590&RS=DN/20020138590
Well, at least someone has pull all the pieces together
and wrote it up very nicely. In my opinion, it would
have been a good book, rather than a patent. I am
surprised, though, that a patent like this could still
be granted in October 2006 (despite that fact that they
applied for it as early as Nov. 2001)! I am almost
certain a few of us here (Bo yourself, at the least;
myself too) have been practising these things for a
long time ... not to mention, Doug Engelbart, who has
evolved these ideas for at least four decades, wrote
about them, and had both research results and
implementations to show us throughout the years.
Thanks & regards. =ppy
--
Brian (Bo) Newman wrote Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:29:01 -0500:
>
> This hit the street last night -- Thought our COP might find it
of
interest
>
> United States Patent
> Patent NO.: US 7,127,440 B2
> Date of Patent: Oct. 24,2006
>
> Inventors: Anne H. Jeanblanc, Galva, IL (US);
> James M. Coffey, Peoria, IL (US)
> Assignee: Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US)
>
> A method is provided for establishing a community of practice
including
> a plurality of users, one or more experts, and one or more
community
of
> practice managers. A need for a community of practice is
identified.
The
> roles and responsibilities of participants in the community of
practice
> are identified. One or more goals are identified for the community
of
> practice based on the identified need. A plurality of the
participants
> in the community of practice collaborate to achieve the
identified
goals.
>
>
>
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