Knowledge Routing Embeddings for Context-Aware Annotation Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing collaboration systems like SharePointâ„¢ require significant human management and domain-specific grouping to remain useful, leading to inefficiencies in knowledge retrieval and dissemination within organizations.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing a neural networks model and persistence knowledge store to analyze user annotations and metadata, creating embeddings that are proactively shared based on user roles, tasks, and subject matter, with feedback mechanisms to refine the understanding of these embeddings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual tagging and human management are used to organize information, then information can be found and organized, but significant time and effort are required, and the system becomes complex to maintain

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation retrieval accuracyVSAvoidtime to find information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically analyzing user annotations and metadata through machine learning models to generate embeddings and route knowledge without human intervention. The neural networks autonomously process annotation data, create semantic representations, and distribute knowledge to relevant users based on task and role similarity, eliminating the need for manual tagging and management while maintaining high retrieval accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (human tagging, categorization, and knowledge routing) with automated computational systems. Machine learning models and neural networks substitute human cognitive processes, automatically analyzing annotation content, extracting semantic meaning, and routing knowledge based on learned patterns from user behavior, task similarity, and role relationships

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of manufacture

If information is manually grouped in domain-specific ways, then initial organization is achieved, but the system quickly becomes outdated and less useful over time without continuous human management

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinitial system setupVSAvoidsystem adaptability over time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements dynamics by continuously adapting to changing organizational needs through ongoing analysis of user annotations, tasks, and roles. The machine learning models are trained on evolving data patterns, allowing the knowledge routing system to dynamically adjust to new domains, tasks, and user needs without manual reconfiguration, maintaining relevance and usefulness over time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user interactions, annotation patterns, and knowledge routing outcomes are continuously analyzed to refine the machine learning models. This feedback loop enables the system to learn from actual usage patterns and improve its adaptability to emerging domains and tasks, automatically adjusting to organizational changes without human intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If automated machine learning analysis is implemented to route knowledge proactively, then knowledge sharing efficiency improves, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveknowledge sharing efficiencyVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves universality by designing a multi-functional platform that combines annotation analysis, embedding generation, knowledge routing, and model training within a single integrated architecture. The neural networks serve multiple purposes: analyzing annotation content, creating semantic representations, identifying relevant users based on task and role similarity, and continuously learning from feedback, thereby managing complexity through functional consolidation rather than separate specialized systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12579368B2System, device, and method to provide generalized knowledge routing utilizing machine learning to a user within the system
Publication Date: 2026.03.17 SRI INTERNATIONAL
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AI summary

The machine learning in the neural networks module can analyze an annotation and its metadata on the annotation made by a first user on a first computing device to make an embedding regarding the annotation and then cooperate with the persistence knowledge store to store the embedding of the machine learning's understanding of the annotation and its metadata. The delivery module can proactively push a notice regarding a potentially related embedding out to a second user on a second computing device based on a threshold amount of relatedness between one or more factors of i) a first task undertaken by the first user and a second task undertaken by the second user, ii) a role of the first user and a role of the second user, and iii) a subject matter of the embedding to a subject matter of a task undertaken by the second user.