FREE ASSOCIATION ENGINE TO GENERATE AND OPERATE ON DYNAMIC VIEWS OF STORED ENTITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS DERIVED FROM RECORDS OF USER ENCOUNTERS WITH PHYSICAL OBJECTS AND OTHER INPUT DATA SOURCES

摘要

The embodiments described herein comprise a free association engine running on a server for capturing input data and recorded observations received from one or more electronic devices or other sources, optionally during user encounters with physical objects associated to the input data and observations; deriving underlying entities and associations of the input data using rules applied to the input data and observations; storing the derived entities and associations in a graph or triplestore database; executing dynamic operations based on the derived entities and associations; and generating visualizations concerning the express and inferred entities and associations. The embodiments allow a user to create rules that are applied to input data and observations to generate entities and associations. The embodiments provide the ability to generate dynamic views of the derived entities and associations based upon a user's selection of sources of the input data and observations and use these views to visualize the data in different ways to different users under different circumstances and power semantically precise user searches and automated recommendations.

主权项

1. A method of operating a free association engine on a server, comprising:
establishing, in response to a user command, a rule; receiving, by the server, input data from a computing device; deriving, by the free association engine, entities from the input data; (rules drive both the entities and association derivation) applying, by the free association engine, the rule to the input data to generate one or more associations between the entities; and storing, by a graph database, the input data, entities and associations.