Semantic Knowledge Indexing Across Dispersed Enterprise Assets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large organizations face challenges in efficiently consolidating and accessing dispersed knowledge assets across multiple platforms, leading to inefficiencies and potential oversight due to varying terminologies and user inexperience.

Innovation Solution

A knowledge accelerator platform that automatically extracts metadata, assigns labels, and scores assets using a semantic dictionary, creating a unified knowledge index for consolidated searching and personalized recommendations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual knowledge collection is performed by junior members across multiple platforms, then comprehensive knowledge gathering is achieved, but substantial time and effort are expended with risk of oversight

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of knowledge gatheringVSAvoidtime for manual knowledge collection
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service knowledge extraction by automatically crawling multiple platforms, extracting metadata, and generating labels without human intervention. The automated knowledge index builder performs the entire knowledge gathering process independently, eliminating the need for junior members to manually collect information while ensuring comprehensive coverage through systematic platform crawling.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual process of knowledge collection with an automated computational system. The knowledge index builder uses automated crawling, metadata extraction, and machine learning-based label generation to substitute human effort, thereby eliminating time consumption and oversight risks associated with manual knowledge gathering.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If knowledge is dispersed across multiple platforms with different terminologies, then diverse knowledge sources are available, but efficient consolidation and access become difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoverage of knowledge sourcesVSAvoidease of knowledge access
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a universal knowledge index that aggregates content from multiple diverse platforms including internal wikis, external documentation, community forums, and social media. The standardized metadata schema and unified label system enable the index to handle different terminologies and formats across platforms, providing universal access to consolidated knowledge from varied sources.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The knowledge index acts as an intermediary layer between users and dispersed knowledge sources. It consolidates information from multiple platforms with different terminologies into a unified structure with standardized labels and metadata, making diverse knowledge accessible through a single interface without requiring users to navigate multiple platforms or understand platform-specific terminologies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If automated metadata extraction and labeling is implemented, then knowledge consolidation efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveknowledge consolidation speedVSAvoidcomplexity of processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The knowledge consolidation process is segmented into distinct modular components: platform crawling, metadata extraction, label generation, and index building. Each component performs a specific function independently, allowing the system to handle complexity through modular architecture while maintaining high productivity through parallel processing of different knowledge sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining metadata schemas, label taxonomies, and extraction rules before knowledge consolidation begins. This preliminary configuration enables automated processing to proceed efficiently without real-time decision complexity, as the framework for handling diverse knowledge sources is established in advance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12566922B2Knowledge accelerator platform with semantic labeling across different assets
Publication Date: 2026.03.03 SAP SE
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AI summary

A knowledge accelerator platform automatically builds and maintains a knowledge index of assets stored across a plurality of sources to allow consolidated searching of assets in the plurality of sources. The platform automatically processes the assets to extract metadata information and record labels for each asset in the index, without storing the content of an asset itself in the index, where a semantic dictionary maps labels to terminology in different domains. The knowledge accelerator platform further provides an internal user interface that allows internal users to evaluate the knowledge contained in the assets at a high level and thus identify knowledge gaps that can be mitigated, and promote quality assets within targeted user communities. The knowledge accelerator platform also provides an external user interface that recommends assets to users based on various factors such as their experience, status, and domain interests.