REPRESENTATION OF TIME-SENSITIVE AND SPACE-SENSITIVE PROFILE INFORMATION

摘要

A method and associated systems for a multidimensional information repository for managing dynamic time-sensitive and space-sensitive user profiles. A profile-management system receives an incoming event that identifies a user profile and is associated with a location, a time period, and a subject. The system searches the repository for records that identify the profile, location, time period, and subject and creates any such records that do not already exist. The system then creates time-sensitive and space-sensitive linkages that link the user profile record to the location, time-period, and subject records. The system dynamically updates these linkages in response to changes to the user profile and uses the linkages to assign context to queries submitted to a main database. In another embodiment, the system recommends additional linkages based on patterns identified in the newly created linkages.

主权项

1. A profile-management system comprising a computer processor, a memory coupled to the processor, a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, and a multidimensional information repository that comprises a profile set of user-profile records that each identifies a user profile of a plurality of user profiles, a geospatial-map set of location records that each identifies a location of a plurality of locations, a time-graph set of time-period records that each identifies a time period of a plurality of time periods, and a subject-dictionary set of subject-matter records that each identifies a subject of a plurality of subjects, wherein the storage device stores program code configured to be run by said processor via the memory to implement a method for managing dynamic time-sensitive and space-sensitive user characteristics, the method comprising:
the system receiving an inbound event that is associated with a first user profile, a first location, a first time period, and a first subject; the system searching the profile set for a user-profile record associated with the first user profile and adding such a record to the profile set if none already exists; the system searching the geospatial map for a location record associated with the first location and adding such a record to the geospatial map if none already exists; the system searching the time graph for a time-period record associated with the first time period and adding such a record to the time graph if none already exists; the system searching the subject dictionary for a subject-matter record associated with the first subject and adding such a record to the subject dictionary if none already exists; and the system creating a set of space-sensitive and time-sensitive linkages, wherein the linkages link the record associated with the first user profile to the record associated with the first location, the record associated with the first time period, and the record associated with the first subject.