Method, system, and program product for invention mining

• US 20060218173A1
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Murray, Douglas G., Martin, James A. Jr., Hicks, Scott D., Prince, Jeffrey E., Rauch, Diane C.
• Application Number:
  US11/086,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20060218173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for invention mining. The method includes: extracting and storing in a first database a predetermined, limited amount of information from all invention disclosures submitted by members of a project team; generating an invention disclosure report using information extracted from each of the invention disclosures; and displaying the invention disclosure report in a user interface (UI), wherein all members of the project team can access the displayed invention disclosure report.

Claims

1. A method for invention mining, comprising:

extracting and storing in a first database a predetermined, limited amount of information from all invention disclosures submitted by members of a project team;

generating an invention disclosure report using information extracted from each of the invention disclosures; and

displaying the invention disclosure report in a user interface (UI), wherein all members of the project team can access the displayed invention disclosure report.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking, in the invention disclosure report, a status of all invention disclosures submitted by the members of the project team.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the status indicates where each respective invention disclosure currently is in an invention process.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

organizing the invention disclosure report according to the status of each invention disclosure.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

providing, in the invention disclosure report, a count of a number of invention disclosures at each status.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, in the invention disclosure report, a count of a total number of invention disclosures submitted by the members of the project team.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting, in the invention disclosure report, a priority for each invention disclosure submitted by the members of the project team.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined, limited amount of information comprises a title of each invention disclosure submitted by the members of the project team.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the predetermined, limited amount of information further comprises an identifier for each invention disclosure submitted by the members of the project team.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing detailed information for each invention disclosure in a second database; and

importing the predetermined, limited amount of information into the first database from the detailed information stored in the second database.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein access to the detailed information for each invention disclosure in the second database is limited to an inventor of the invention disclosure.

12. Deploying an application for invention mining, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure being operable to perform the method of claim 1.

13. Computer software embodied in a propagated signal for invention mining, the computer software comprising instructions to cause a computer system to perform the method of claim 1.

14. A system for invention mining, comprising:

a system for extracting and storing in a first database a predetermined, limited amount of information from all invention disclosures submitted by members of a project team;

a system for generating an invention disclosure report using information extracted from each of the invention disclosures; and

a system for displaying the invention disclosure report in a user interface (UI), wherein all members of the project team can access the displayed invention disclosure report.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for tracking, in the invention disclosure report, a status of all invention disclosures submitted by the members of the project team.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the status indicates where each respective invention disclosure currently is in an invention process.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a system for organizing the invention disclosure report according to the status of each invention disclosure.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a system for providing, in the invention disclosure report, a count of a number of invention disclosures at each status.

19. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for providing, in the invention disclosure report, a count of a total number of invention disclosures submitted by the members of the project team.

20. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for setting, in the invention disclosure report, a priority for each invention disclosure submitted by the members of the project team.

21. The system of claim 14, wherein the predetermined, limited amount of information comprises a title of each invention disclosure submitted by the members of the project team.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the predetermined, limited amount of information further comprises an identifier for each invention disclosure submitted by the members of the project team.

23. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for storing detailed information for each invention disclosure in a second database; and

a system for importing the predetermined, limited amount of information into the first database from the detailed information stored in the second database.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein access to the detailed information for each invention disclosure in the second database is limited to an inventor of the invention disclosure.

25. A program product stored on a computer readable medium for invention mining, the computer readable medium comprising program code for performing the following steps:

extracting and storing in a first database a predetermined, limited amount of information from all invention disclosures submitted by members of a project team;

generating an invention disclosure report using information extracted from each of the invention disclosures; and

displaying the invention disclosure report in a user interface (UI), wherein all members of the project team can access the displayed invention disclosure report.