Network-Based System for Enhancing Cooperation Among Persons Engaged in an Enterprise

• US 20090198506A1
• Filed: 01/22/2009
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Advance Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Advance Incorporated
• Inventors: Gupta, Puneet K.
• Application Number:
  US12/357,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20090198506A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A network-based system for enhancing cooperation among persons engaged in an enterprise includes a server coupled to the network executing software providing one or more interactive displays on computerized appliances operated by the persons. and a data repository accessible to the server, the data repository storing enterprise-related profiles for individual ones of the persons, including at least enterprise-related activity of the persons, wherein the system relates persons in the data repository in activity-related communities, and enables individual persons in the enterprise to view profiles in community collections.

Claims

1. A network-based system for enhancing cooperation among persons engaged in an enterprise, comprising:

a server coupled to the network executing software providing one or more interactive displays on computerized appliances operated by the persons; and

a data repository accessible to the server, the data repository storing enterprise-related profiles for individual ones of the persons, including at least enterprise-related activity of the persons;

wherein the system relates persons in the data repository in activity-related communities, and enables individual persons in the enterprise to view profiles in community collections.

2. The system of claim 1 accessible from a network-connected appliance using a browser interface.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the network is an Intranet network connected to the Internet network.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the interactive display includes a search interface for retrieving information about individual persons or communities of persons.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein a tag can be submitted in the search interface used to retrieve one or more profiles.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the communities are created by persons skilled in a particular field or by persons sharing a particular background.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the fields of skill or backgrounds are enterprise related.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the profile of a person includes a photograph of the person and at least one of professional background description, current skill set, and tags.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the profile of a person includes information held in common by the person and the viewer of the profile of the person.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the common information includes common skills and or common tags.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein at least some of the individual persons categorized by the system are colleagues of the viewer.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein a social network of persons is dynamically built for a person using the system as the person interacts with colleagues.

13. The system of claim 4 wherein a tag may be used in addition to or instead of a community name in the search interface to search for profiles of persons.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the tags point to resources and works of persons and submission of a tag shared by two or more persons into a search interface of the interactive display may cause further return of links to resources and works of those persons who tagged the works and resources with the submitted tag.

15. The system of claim 1 wherein the interactive display includes an option for viewing all profiles of persons in a same social interaction network.

16. The system of claim 1 wherein the profiles are sorted and grouped for presentation according to input topic, name, or community name.

17. The system of claim 1 wherein the interactive display includes viewing functions for viewing colleagues and communities of a person whose profile is highlighted.

18. The system of claim 4 wherein at least one interactive filter in the interactive display enables a user to filter search results displayed.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the search results are filtered according to one of a common skill set or common community association.