US Patent 7203707 System and method for knowledge asset acquisition and management

A knowledge asset management system. An engineering data analysis system contains a plurality of objects. A first storage device stores records of users registered in the engineering data analysis system. A second storage device stores records of the operating history of the objects. A processor generates an object table specifying the characteristics of each object, determines the logical connection between the objects according to the operating history of the users and the characteristics of each object, and generates an object relational table accordingly. A knowledge asset database stores the object table and the object relational table containing records of a trigger object and corresponding linking objects.