Organizational visualization system

• US 20040210827A1
• Filed: 04/17/2003
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Sayers, Craig Peter, Burg, Bernard Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 7,350,144 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/501.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

An organizational visualization system is provided including obtaining organization information, obtaining overlay information, and processing the organization information and the overlay information to provide a visualization of the overlay information on an organization.

Claims

1. An organizational visualization system comprising:

obtaining organization information;

obtaining overlay information; and

processing the organization information and the overlay information in a computer to provide a visualization of the overlay information on an organization.

2. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 1 additionally comprising:

obtaining active information;

and wherein;

the processing includes processing the organization information, the overlay information, and the active information to provide the visualization.

3. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 1 additionally comprising:

obtaining active information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project active information and a combination thereof.

4. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 1 additionally comprising:

obtaining overlay information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project specific information and a combination thereof.

5. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

obtaining organization information includes obtaining information selected from a group consisting of hierarchy, titles within the hierarchy, the reporting relationships, the names of the people and their titles, and a combination thereof.

6. An organizational visualization system comprising:

obtaining organization information from an organization database;

obtaining overlay information from an information database;

obtaining active information from an active environment; and

processing the organization information, the overlay information, and the active information in a processing module to provide a visualization of the affect of the active information on the organization information and the overlay information.

7. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 6 additionally comprising:

obtaining organization information of the expected attendees to a meeting;

obtaining meeting information from the information database;

obtaining attendee information from attendees joining a meeting; and

processing the organization information, the meeting information, and the attendee information to provide a visualization for managing the meeting.

8. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

adding all known contact and organization information of a plurality of organizations to the organizational database;

adding all known sales information and purchaser information to the information database;

obtaining sales information to the plurality of organizations and contacts with the plurality of organizations from the information database;

constructing a list of relevant people who have been contacted or who have made a purchase;

constructing a list of relevant organizations which include at least one relevant person;

extracting an organizational subtree from the plurality of organizations that includes all the relevant people from each relevant organization; and

displaying the organizational subtree with contact and sales information overlaid thereon.

9. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

obtaining a description of a project;

obtaining details of documents and communications related to the project from the information database;

constructing a list of relevant persons who authored a document or communicated with another person about the project;

constructing a list of relevant organizations which include at least one relevant person;

extracting an organizational subtree that includes all the relevant persons from each relevant organization; and

displaying the organizational subtree showing links between persons who had communicated about the project and marking the persons who authored documents.

10. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

obtaining active information includes obtaining information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project active information and a combination thereof;

obtaining overlay information includes obtaining information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project specific information and a combination thereof; and

obtaining organization information includes obtaining information selected from a group consisting of hierarchy, titles within the hierarchy, the reporting relationships, the names of the people and their titles, and a combination thereof.

11. An organizational visualization system comprising:

an organization database containing organization information;

an information database containing overlay information;

a computer connected to the organization database and the information database for processing organization information and overlay information;

a presentation module connected to the computer; and

a display module connected to the presentation module to provide a visualization of the overlay information on an organization.

12. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 11 additionally comprising:

an interface module for connecting to an active environment to receive active information;

and wherein;

the computer is connected to the interface module for processing the organization information, the active information, and the overlay information to provide the visualization.

13. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 11 additionally comprising:

an active environment including a portable information device;

and wherein;

the interface module connects to the active environment to receive active information from the portable information device, the active information including information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project active information and a combination thereof.

14. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 11 wherein:

the information database includes overlay information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project specific information and a combination thereof.

15. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 11 wherein:

the organization database includes organization information selected from a group consisting of hierarchy, titles within the hierarchy, the reporting relationships, the names of the people and their titles, and a combination thereof.

16. An organizational visualization system comprising:

an organization database containing organization information;

an information database containing overlay information;

an active environment including a portable information device

an interface module for connection to the portable information device for obtaining active information from an active environment;

a processing module connected to the organization database, the information database, and the interface module for processing the organization information, the overlay information, and the active information to provide organizational charting information;

a presentation module connected to the processing module to format the organizational charting information; and

a display module connected to the presentation module to provide a visualization of the affect of the active information on the organization information and the overlay information.

17. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the organization database includes information of the expected attendees to a meeting and information about the attendees;

the information database includes meeting information;

the interface module obtains attendee information from attendees joining a meeting; and

the display module includes a meeting display for providing a visualization for managing the meeting and a personal display for providing a visualization for following the meeting and accessing the information about the attendees.

18. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the organization database includes all known contact and organization information of a plurality of organizations;

the information database includes all known sales information and purchaser information;

the processing module includes means for obtaining sales information to the plurality of organizations and contacts with the plurality of organizations from the information database;

the processing module includes means for constructing a list of relevant people who have been contacted or who have made a purchase;

the processing module includes means for constructing a list of relevant organizations which include at least one relevant person;

the processing module includes means for extracting an organizational subtree from the plurality of organizations that includes all the relevant people from each relevant organization; and

the display module includes means for displaying the organizational subtree with contact and sales information overlaid thereon.

19. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the interface module obtains a description of a project;

the information database includes details of documents and communications related to the project;

the processing module includes means for constructing a list of relevant persons who authored a document or communicated with another person about the project;

the processing module includes means for constructing a list of relevant organizations which include at least one relevant person;

the processing module includes means for extracting an organizational subtree that includes all the relevant persons from each relevant organization; and

the display module includes means for displaying the organizational subtree showing links between persons who had communicated about the project and marking the persons who authored documents.

20. The organizational visualization system as claimed in claim 16 wherein:

the interface module includes means for obtaining active information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project active information and a combination thereof;

the information database includes means for obtaining overlay information selected from a group consisting of meeting, sales, technical, collaboration, and project specific information and a combination thereof; and

the organization database includes means for obtaining information selected from a group consisting of hierarchy, titles within the hierarchy, the reporting relationships, the names of the people and their titles, and a combination thereof.