SOCIAL KUDOS

• US 20130132864A1
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Bear, Mary E.G., Banda, Ravi, Panigrahi, Namita, Chenoweth, Kathi Lynn, Vidyaprakash, Indira
• Application Number:
  US13/715,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132864A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating rating enterprise personnel or otherwise issuing and tracking indications of approval, e.g., kudos. An example method includes providing a first set of user interface controls adapted to enable plural enterprise personnel to participate in a discussion via electronic communications; providing a first user option for a first participant of the discussion to associate an indication of approval with input provided by a participant of the discussion; providing a second user option to associate a note with the indication of approval; and associating the discussion and the indication of approval with a business object. A social network may provide the first set of user interface controls. The electronic communications include messages exchanged over a social network used to conduct the discussion. The input may include, for example, text and/or a document submitted to participants of the discussion, such as a presentation document.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating rating enterprise personnel, the method comprising:

providing a first set of user interface controls adapted to enable plural enterprise personnel to participate in a discussion via electronic communications;

providing a first user option for a first participant of the discussion to associate an indication of approval with input provided by a participant of the discussion;

providing a second user option to associate a note with the indication of approval; and

providing a third user option to associate the discussion and the indication of approval with a business object.

2. The method of claim 1, further including employing a social network to provide the first set of user interface controls, and wherein the electronic communications include messages exchanged over a social network used to conduct the discussion.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the input includes a document submitted to participants of the discussion.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more user interface controls includes a toggle for turning on or off display of indications of approval for one or more participants in the discussion.

5. The method of claim 1, further including providing a fourth user option to associate a second indication of approval with a group of enterprise personnel and the discussion.

6. The method of claim 1, further including collecting one or more indications of approval for a participant of the discussion and making a resulting collection of one or more indications accessible via a performance review document.

7. The method of claim 6, further including providing the collection to a profile of the participant, wherein the profile is maintained and accessible via a social network.

8. The method of claim 6, further including providing a fifth user option, via the social network, for enterprise personnel to associate a third indication of approval with a participant of the social network at a profile of the participant.

9. The method of claim 8, further including providing a sixth user option, via the profile, for enterprise personnel to view one or more statistics pertaining to indications of approval that have been associated with the participant.

10. The method of claim 1, further providing a seventh user option, via a user interface control that is included among the first set of user interface controls and appearing in a user interface display screen used during the discussion, to view one or more statistics pertaining to one or more indications of approval associated with a participant of the discussion.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more statistics include a number of indications of approval received by a participant of the discussion during a time interval.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more statistics include an indication of one or more enterprise personnel who have received more indications of approval than other enterprise personnel.

13. The method of claim 12, further including making the statistics viewable by a manager of a participant in the discussion.

14. The method of claim 1, further including providing an eighth user option to display information pertaining to the business object.

15. The method of claim 1, further including providing a ninth user option to associate a portion of text occurring in an electronic message with an indication of approval and with the discussion.

16. The method of claim 1, further including providing a tenth user option to access a performance review document pertaining to one or more enterprise personnel.

17. The method of claim 16, further including providing one or more user interface controls in the performance review document for facilitating displaying a conversation associated with one or more indications of approval.

18. The method of claim 16, further including providing one or more user interface controls in the performance review document for facilitating navigating to a user interface display screen that is adapted to illustrate data of a business object with which an indication of approval is associated.

19. An apparatus comprising:

a digital processor coupled to a display and to a processor-readable storage device, wherein the processor-readable storage device includes one or more instructions executable by the digital processor to perform the following acts;

providing a first set of user interface controls adapted to enable plural enterprise personnel to participate in a discussion via electronic communications;

providing a first user option for a first participant of the discussion to associate an indication of approval with input provided by a participant of the discussion;

providing a second user option to associate a note with the indication of approval; and

providing a third user option to associate the discussion and the indication of approval with a business object.

20. A processor-readable storage device including instructions executable by a digital processor, the processor-readable storage device including one or more instructions for:

providing a first set of user interface controls adapted to enable plural enterprise personnel to participate in a discussion via electronic communications;

providing a first user option for a first participant of the discussion to associate an indication of approval with input provided by a participant of the discussion;

providing a second user option to associate a note with the indication of approval; and

providing a third user option to associate the discussion and the indication of approval with a business object.