Yes, I think I have it. Clique Space is a specification for a nervous system.
A Clique Space can connect, aggregate, and co-ordinate the activity state of any device that can connect to one. In this sense, it surely acts as a nervous system.
Subsequent to my coining the name "Clique Space", I discovered firstly (I've possibly been reminded) that Cliques are a term in graph theory and secondly, the actual name is used in research based on neurological behaviour.
I don't know what all these coincidences may mean to my patent or trademark.
We'll see...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Clique Space(TM) and a sustainable future.
Okay, a rant about how I believe Clique Space would help humanity in some important areas of social decay/crisis/whatever else might pique the reader's interest...
Firstly, without a doubt, I believe this Clique Space concept will help society lift non-metropolitan communities out of poverty. Clique Space was born of my frustrations at the pig-headed nature of management practise to physically collocate. There may have been a time when the work that needed to be done required the labour resources to come together to do it, and I wouldn't try to doubt that in many occupations, this is still very much the case. But physical collocation is less of a concern, and more of an appeal to the status-quo in a post-industrial society. The factory floor is an anachronism that clings to work management practises, like a drunkard to a light post.
Clique Space will let a company (with individual consent) coordinate work in a highly flexible way that combines the capabilities of multiple media with role-based and individual behaviour preferences. All of this behaviour is controlled ultimately by the individual who logs on to a Clique Space system through the one or more devices they possess.
A person who has access to a Clique Space, and can connect any media to it can communicate a virtual presence to anyone else so connected. This presents the practicality of virtual offices and workplaces to management in a way so that they receive all the information they may ever need about their labour force extracted and distilled from the noise and distraction of an office or factory floor.
The individual employee doesn't have to travel to an office. The individual needn't have to consider relocation. The individual needn't have to weigh up a life of displacement against one of poverty. The individual is earning the same type of money that their highly skilled city-brethren might have without having to leave their rural or remote home community.
The community benefits because this individual who is earning the same type of money as their city-dwelling colleagues is spending their money in their home community. This money circulates in their home community, and brings prosperity, and a reason for others to stay in the community they have selected as their home.
Hence, Clique Space would provide a way for rural and remote sustainability, and would act as a facility through which members of any community would exercise their discretion when connecting to a global one.
Firstly, without a doubt, I believe this Clique Space concept will help society lift non-metropolitan communities out of poverty. Clique Space was born of my frustrations at the pig-headed nature of management practise to physically collocate. There may have been a time when the work that needed to be done required the labour resources to come together to do it, and I wouldn't try to doubt that in many occupations, this is still very much the case. But physical collocation is less of a concern, and more of an appeal to the status-quo in a post-industrial society. The factory floor is an anachronism that clings to work management practises, like a drunkard to a light post.
Clique Space will let a company (with individual consent) coordinate work in a highly flexible way that combines the capabilities of multiple media with role-based and individual behaviour preferences. All of this behaviour is controlled ultimately by the individual who logs on to a Clique Space system through the one or more devices they possess.
A person who has access to a Clique Space, and can connect any media to it can communicate a virtual presence to anyone else so connected. This presents the practicality of virtual offices and workplaces to management in a way so that they receive all the information they may ever need about their labour force extracted and distilled from the noise and distraction of an office or factory floor.
The individual employee doesn't have to travel to an office. The individual needn't have to consider relocation. The individual needn't have to weigh up a life of displacement against one of poverty. The individual is earning the same type of money that their highly skilled city-brethren might have without having to leave their rural or remote home community.
The community benefits because this individual who is earning the same type of money as their city-dwelling colleagues is spending their money in their home community. This money circulates in their home community, and brings prosperity, and a reason for others to stay in the community they have selected as their home.
Hence, Clique Space would provide a way for rural and remote sustainability, and would act as a facility through which members of any community would exercise their discretion when connecting to a global one.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Mountebanks and their Claques' Cliques.
A book titled Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum has introduced two new words to me: mountebank and claque; the second of these words being merely a coincidental fit with the concept of a Clique. I knew neither of these two words nor their association in Rosenbaum's book before I picked it up and read it.
Saying that, I'm probably a bit, unfortunately, of a claqueless mountebank. I have a few supporters for my idea, but sensing yet no one so bold as to be counted a member of the claque that I lack. Maybe others are waiting for this claque to materialise before they join.
Witnessing the phenomenon of mountebanks and their claques in many of my exchanges on email groups, the concern that I lack one of these appears a considerable obstacle to the promotion of Clique Space(TM). Saying that, I think it is only a concern to me insofar as I currently have less than 11.5 months to garner a well-moneyed claque before the PCT lapses.
In regard to lapsing PCT's, one cannot commit too much emotion to this process; the tax to one's sanity would otherwise be too great. I have done my best, and if no one likes my idea (I accept the possibility that my idea might be crap, but am yet to accept the substance of that possibility itself) I will have to be philosophical about this outcome. The idea that I need to spend 150 thousand dollars to secure national phase patent applications is unattainable by me as an individual. Maybe, also, my idea might be too abstract to be sufficiently enforceable, but I doubt this one currently as I still have not seen another make an adversarial move which might indicate this possibility.
I believe society will embrace Clique Space, or a similar idea that empowers individuals with the facility to control their virtual presence and collect activity logs of their interactions with any other individual over any electronic medium capable of being represented in any number of Clique Spaces. Whether or not society responds to this embracing inevitability in time for me to see a consideration for it will be decided by others.
Saying that, I'm probably a bit, unfortunately, of a claqueless mountebank. I have a few supporters for my idea, but sensing yet no one so bold as to be counted a member of the claque that I lack. Maybe others are waiting for this claque to materialise before they join.
Witnessing the phenomenon of mountebanks and their claques in many of my exchanges on email groups, the concern that I lack one of these appears a considerable obstacle to the promotion of Clique Space(TM). Saying that, I think it is only a concern to me insofar as I currently have less than 11.5 months to garner a well-moneyed claque before the PCT lapses.
In regard to lapsing PCT's, one cannot commit too much emotion to this process; the tax to one's sanity would otherwise be too great. I have done my best, and if no one likes my idea (I accept the possibility that my idea might be crap, but am yet to accept the substance of that possibility itself) I will have to be philosophical about this outcome. The idea that I need to spend 150 thousand dollars to secure national phase patent applications is unattainable by me as an individual. Maybe, also, my idea might be too abstract to be sufficiently enforceable, but I doubt this one currently as I still have not seen another make an adversarial move which might indicate this possibility.
I believe society will embrace Clique Space, or a similar idea that empowers individuals with the facility to control their virtual presence and collect activity logs of their interactions with any other individual over any electronic medium capable of being represented in any number of Clique Spaces. Whether or not society responds to this embracing inevitability in time for me to see a consideration for it will be decided by others.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Somewhat unsurprisingly...
I'm going to have to give the uni avenue up, at least for Spring session.
I had a talk the University's Director of Corporate Relations because I was given his contact details as someone who had industry contacts. On 13 July, he sent a message to the Informatics Faculty's Manager of Innovation and Commercialisation (someone with whom I already had contact with earlier) who didn't get round to contacting me directly until I called him on Tuesday 28 July.
I don't think there'll be enough time for me now to talk about equitable terms to share Clique Space with the University before 8 August, the time by which I need to enrol for Spring session. Hence, I'm going to give up again. House of mirrors.
Maybe next session... maybe never. If someone doesn't help me properly by 15 July 2010 Clique Space (now an internationally recognised prior art) goes begging.
We'll all see what happens here...
Owen.
I had a talk the University's Director of Corporate Relations because I was given his contact details as someone who had industry contacts. On 13 July, he sent a message to the Informatics Faculty's Manager of Innovation and Commercialisation (someone with whom I already had contact with earlier) who didn't get round to contacting me directly until I called him on Tuesday 28 July.
I don't think there'll be enough time for me now to talk about equitable terms to share Clique Space with the University before 8 August, the time by which I need to enrol for Spring session. Hence, I'm going to give up again. House of mirrors.
Maybe next session... maybe never. If someone doesn't help me properly by 15 July 2010 Clique Space (now an internationally recognised prior art) goes begging.
We'll all see what happens here...
Owen.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The First Media Profile
Media Profiles are a central component to my implementation of the Clique Space(TM - can't do that too often) concept.
Any device that wants to talk to a Clique Space must connect to it through a suitable Media Profile, a customisation of the elements that Clique Space uses to represent various physical and conceptual artefacts in the world that it models. The first Media Profile that I am crafting will model the Clique Space implementation itself so a Clique Space system can model the cooperation of its own component devices. Without casting disrespect to Americans, I hesitate to use an American cliché. Alas, no other phrase seems appropriate for this context: This is very neat.
I might be a bit of a smarty pants.
Any device that wants to talk to a Clique Space must connect to it through a suitable Media Profile, a customisation of the elements that Clique Space uses to represent various physical and conceptual artefacts in the world that it models. The first Media Profile that I am crafting will model the Clique Space implementation itself so a Clique Space system can model the cooperation of its own component devices. Without casting disrespect to Americans, I hesitate to use an American cliché. Alas, no other phrase seems appropriate for this context: This is very neat.
I might be a bit of a smarty pants.
Friday, July 17, 2009
The possibility of business startup support at uni.
Spring session at my local uni begins in two Monday's time. I think I've done two subjects toward a coursework postgraduate degree. I'm not too hot on progressing this coursework degree because I think I have jumped over, round, and through enough obstacles now. I think that I might want to do research on something that interests me. Even though one has tried to appeal to various academics at the uni for supervision in a research-based degree where Clique Space(TM) was the topic, none have offered to be a supervisor.
I have become aware of the possibility, if I were to re-enrol in my coursework masters, of attracting some access to business start-up resources offered through the university. Hence, I think I might take one subject next session. As a coursework student, the work that I'll be doing is only going to drain time that I'll need to work on Clique Space, so I don't find this idea of coursework to be very attractive.
Hence, the only reason I am considering re-enrolment is to get access to these promised business development resources. If this access doesn't materialise, I'll see no reason in being a student in a coursework degree.
I have become aware of the possibility, if I were to re-enrol in my coursework masters, of attracting some access to business start-up resources offered through the university. Hence, I think I might take one subject next session. As a coursework student, the work that I'll be doing is only going to drain time that I'll need to work on Clique Space, so I don't find this idea of coursework to be very attractive.
Hence, the only reason I am considering re-enrolment is to get access to these promised business development resources. If this access doesn't materialise, I'll see no reason in being a student in a coursework degree.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Clique Space and A Lucky Country.
I am Australian. It's good to be Australian.
I grew up in Wollongong, and consider this urban offshoot from Sydney (separated by an escarpment that runs between Stanwell Park and Helensburgh) my home.
People that have been in leadership positions to me (employers and politicians) have conspired (either with intent or through ignorance) to get me to live in Sydney. I have tried more than once to please the forces that cajole me in to a foreign urbanity, but each time I have tried, the same result has eventuated: I have become a scared, cowering shadow, haggered from intense social interaction and chronic displacement.
I got interested in software development when I was 12 because I could see it as a great way to do something interesting, whilst keeping away from others, and the intense demands of having to interact socially. On the other hand, I often feel lonely. This is not because of my preference for solitude, but because others appear to find my preference for solitude as hard to understand as I find their preference for chronic socialisation hard to understand.
Never have I warmed to the thought of living the life of a corporate nomad that proponents of the software development industry would currently advocate is necessary to produce good software. I want to work from home, and I won't take a job that does not allow me to do this. So, I came up with Clique Space before I named it Clique Space, in about July or August 2004 on a rainy day while I was jogging north along the cycleway between Bellambi and Bulli. I don't yet know whether or not it is good or crap, but it seems that no one's tried it before either, so no one knows.
By January 2008, I'd kept an eye open, but hadn't seen anything that might approach what I had conceived nearly three and a half years before. Armed with a part-time 30 hours/week software developer's job in Wollongong, I decided to register it, and claimed January 15 2008 as my priority date.
My patent is now a PCT which will be published in six days time. It is my best attempt at claiming this concept as my own. I think I have spent not less than 10,000 dollars to get it to this stage. I left my part-time position in Wollongong, because this employer started to dicate the terms of my employment. I have no more money to move my concept further than this, but I believe I might have just enough time to convince people who do have money and contacts (better people than me) of this concept's efficacy. I'm currently developing a proof of this concept in Java on my laptop.
We'll see...
I grew up in Wollongong, and consider this urban offshoot from Sydney (separated by an escarpment that runs between Stanwell Park and Helensburgh) my home.
People that have been in leadership positions to me (employers and politicians) have conspired (either with intent or through ignorance) to get me to live in Sydney. I have tried more than once to please the forces that cajole me in to a foreign urbanity, but each time I have tried, the same result has eventuated: I have become a scared, cowering shadow, haggered from intense social interaction and chronic displacement.
I got interested in software development when I was 12 because I could see it as a great way to do something interesting, whilst keeping away from others, and the intense demands of having to interact socially. On the other hand, I often feel lonely. This is not because of my preference for solitude, but because others appear to find my preference for solitude as hard to understand as I find their preference for chronic socialisation hard to understand.
Never have I warmed to the thought of living the life of a corporate nomad that proponents of the software development industry would currently advocate is necessary to produce good software. I want to work from home, and I won't take a job that does not allow me to do this. So, I came up with Clique Space before I named it Clique Space, in about July or August 2004 on a rainy day while I was jogging north along the cycleway between Bellambi and Bulli. I don't yet know whether or not it is good or crap, but it seems that no one's tried it before either, so no one knows.
By January 2008, I'd kept an eye open, but hadn't seen anything that might approach what I had conceived nearly three and a half years before. Armed with a part-time 30 hours/week software developer's job in Wollongong, I decided to register it, and claimed January 15 2008 as my priority date.
My patent is now a PCT which will be published in six days time. It is my best attempt at claiming this concept as my own. I think I have spent not less than 10,000 dollars to get it to this stage. I left my part-time position in Wollongong, because this employer started to dicate the terms of my employment. I have no more money to move my concept further than this, but I believe I might have just enough time to convince people who do have money and contacts (better people than me) of this concept's efficacy. I'm currently developing a proof of this concept in Java on my laptop.
We'll see...
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