Modeling of job profile data

• US 20070208578A1
• Filed: 05/21/2004
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Muralitharan, Caroline, Rico, Marcelo, Mistry, Darayush, Leon, Maria
• Granted Patent: US 8,112,296 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/321
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring

Abstract

A job profile class is defined that represents a job profile and identifies relationships of the job profile with various entities related to the job profile.

Claims

1. A method in a computer system for representing a class definition, the method comprising:

defining a job profile class representing a job profile, the job profile class identifying a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of entities related to the job profile includes at least one entity selected from the group consisting of related work positions and related skills.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the job profile class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the job profile class.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the one or more custom data fields of the job profile class are specific to an application.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

instantiating the job profile class; and

initializing data elements of the instantiated job profile class.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

transforming data received from a source application into a common format of the job profile class;

transforming the data from the common format into a target format of a target application; and

sending the data in the target format to the target application.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein a definition of the job profile class is represented as an XML schema.

8. A method for data transformation, the method comprising:

receiving job profile data from a source application; and

transforming the job profile data into a common format provided by a job profile class,

wherein the job profile class identifies a set of relationships of a job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the plurality of entities related to the job profile includes at least one entity selected from the group consisting of related work positions and related skills.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the job profile class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the job profile class.

11. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause a machine to perform a method comprising:

defining a job profile class representing a job profile, the job profile class identifying a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the plurality of entities related to the job profile includes at least one entity selected from the group consisting of related work positions and related skills.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the job profile class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the job profile class.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein a definition of the job profile class is represented as an XML schema.

15. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause a machine to perform a method comprising:

receiving job profile data from a source application; and

transforming the job profile data into a common format provided by a job profile class,

wherein the job profile class represents a job profile and identifies a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the plurality of entities related to the job profile includes at least one entity selected from the group consisting of related work positions and related skills.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the job profile class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the job profile class.

18. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least on processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a set of instructions which cause the processor to define a job profile class representing an job profile, the job profile class identifying a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the plurality of entities related to the job profile includes at least one entity selected from the group consisting of related work positions and related skills.

20. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least on processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a set of instructions which cause the processor to

receive job profile data from a source application, and

transform the job profile data into a common format provided by a job profile class,

wherein the job profile class represents a job profile and identifies a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

21. The system of claim 20 wherein the plurality of entities related to the job profile includes at least one entity selected from the group consisting of related work positions and related skills.

22. An apparatus for representing a class definition, the apparatus comprising:

means for defining a job profile class representing a job profile of different types, the job profile class identifying a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.

23. An apparatus for data transformation, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving job profile data from a source application; and

means for transforming the job profile data into a common format provided by a job profile class,

wherein the job profile class represents the job profile and identifies a set of relationships of the job profile with a plurality of entities related to the job profile.