New Patent for Ontology

October 21, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on New Patent for Ontology

IBM has received a federal patent for “ontology-based network search engine.” Four co-inventors were named.

Interactive Intelligence brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Wisconsin.” According to the abstract, the patent was for a method and apparatus for searching for a documents residing on a network comprises receiving a search request comprising of one or more search terms of an ontology.

Ontology is a view of a domain hierarchy, the similarity of relationships and their interaction among concepts. It illustrates the concepts and their relationships so that the user more easily understands its coverage. Having a solid ontology for findability within search is key.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.