System and method for modeling, fuzzy concept mapping, crowd sourced supervision, ensembling, and technology prediction

Abstract

The invention provides a system and method for providing ttx-based categorization services and a categorized commonplace of shared information. Currency of the contents is improved by a process called conjuring/concretizing wherein users' thoughts are rapidly infused into the Map from user entry or movement of ttxs; or pre-entry of fxxts of text, transform relationships, associations among ttxs, commonalities, or ttxs. A Map is generated based upon use of selected sets of relationships between ttxs, allowing for construction of subjective, compartmentalized, or objective depictions and organizations. The Map provides for modeling where ttx nodes are objects. The Map ttxs also serve as binding points to other modeling paradigms similar to how equations are bound to spreadsheet cells, but using the extended information of a graph rather than a rectangle of cells. As a new idea is sought, a goal is created for a search. After the goal idea is found, a ttx is concretized and categorized. The needs met by such a Map are prior art searching, competitive environmental scanning, competitive analysis study repository management and reuse, innovation gap analysis indication, novelty checking, technology value prediction, investment area indication and planning, and product technology comparison and feature planning.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method to make available a commonplace of information, comprising:
 a. providing a computer storage to hold information added to the commonplace of information comprising at least one phrase, a plurality of cnxpts representing concepts, and at least one syntax deconstruction or interpretation rule or heuristic that if applied to an at least one phrase would cause a syntactically suggested association relationship to result between at least two of the plurality of cnxpts representing concepts;   b. defining a knowledge model comprising a set of zero or more fxxts based on the information stored regarding the zero or more cnxpts and the at least one syntax deconstruction or interpretation rule or heuristic, fulfilling at least one condition selected from the group of: no association is marked with a fxxt, no cnxpt is marked with a fxxt, at least one cnxpt is marked with at least one fxxt, at least one cnxpt participates in one or more associations marked with at least one fxxt, and the at least one phrase and the at least one syntax deconstruction or interpretation rule or heuristic that if applied to the at least one phrase would cause a syntactically suggested association relationship to result between at least two of the plurality of cnxpts representing concepts;   c. generating, using a map definition referencing the set of zero or more fxxts, a derived ontology for one or more domains of wisdom by extracting references to zero or more associations and zero or more cnxpts into the derived ontology;   d. generating, using said map definition referencing the set of zero or more fxxts, a skeletal structure for a map instance for said one or more domains of wisdom from the extracted derived ontology;   e. generating, using said map definition referencing the set of zero or more fxxts, one or more organizations of knowledge to structure a map instance for said one or more domains of wisdom from the extracted derived ontology wherein the resulting map structure of said map instance is based upon a manner of map assembly selected from the group of: a spanning forest manner, a hierarchical manner, an enhanced descendent forest manner, an enhanced ascendant forest manner, a vertical manner, a directed graph manner, a graph manner, a horizontal manner, a depth augmented manner, a time augmented manner, a purlieu augmented manner, and a structure comprising a combination thereof, wherein vertical and horizontal are mere duals for labeling in combinations;   and   f. providing to the user said one or more domains of wisdom for utilization;   whereby one or more domains of wisdom are formed by collections of references to cnxpts and references to zero or more associations among cnxpts.