Method and system for processing career development information

• US 5,978,767 A
• Filed: 09/10/1996
• Issued: 11/02/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Perspecta, Inc.)
• Inventors: Baxter, Lynn Z., Chriest, Susan L.
• Primary Examiner(s): MacDonald, Allen R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kazimi, Hani M.
• Application Number:
  US08/711,620
• Time in Patent Office: 1,148 Days
• Field of Search: 364/282.1, 364/282.3, 395/200.32, 395/500, 395/611, 395/712, 395/200.36, 395/200.76, 705/1, 707/1, 707/4, 707/10, 707/535, 707/501, 707/513, 345/348
• US Class Current: 705/328
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/2057 Career enhancement or continuing education service

Abstract

A system (100) for processing career development information is provided which comprises a plurality of career development files (112). Each career development file is associated with at least one other career development file. The system includes a user interface system (120) which receives a user selection of one of the career development files (112) and displays the selected career development file. The system also includes a career library production system (116) with which a curriculum designer can modify one or more of the career development files.

Claims

1. A method for processing career development information, comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of skill entries in a plurality of career development tables on a computer system;

processing a plurality of pointers from at least one relationship table associated with the plurality of career development tables, each pointer defining a relationship between at least two of the career development tables;

converting the career development tables into a plurality of linked career development pages in response to the processed pointers;

generating a career development activity page associated with a career development activity;

displaying on a display device one of the linked career development pages, the displayed career development page including a subset of the plurality of skill entries, the subset being associated with a job family;

receiving a user input identifying a selected one of the skill entries from the subset; and

displaying on the display device the career development page associated with the selected skill entry, the career development page including a link to the career development activity page.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising the step of displaying on the display device a description of the selected one of the skills.

3. The method of claim 1 and further comprising the step of displaying on the display device a skill group associated with the job family, the skill group including the plurality of skills.

4. The method of claim 1 and further comprising the step of storing information pertaining to the skills in a plurality of pages.

5. The method of claim 4 and further comprising the steps of:

receiving input from a curriculum designer identifying a change in the skills; and

modifying at least one of the pages in accordance with the input from the curriculum designer.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the step of receiving input from the curriculum designer comprises the step of receiving input from the curriculum designer identifying a new skill to be added to the plurality of skills.

7. A system for processing career development information, comprising

a plurality of career development tables;

at relationship table defining at least one relationship between at least two of the plurality of career development tables;

a converter system operable to convert the plurality of career development tables into a plurality of linked career development pages in response to the at least one relationship defined in the relationship table, the converter system further operable to generate a career development activity page associated with a career development activity;

a user interface system operable to receive user input identifying a selected one of the career development pages, the user interface system further operable to display on a display device the selected career development page, the selected career development page including a displayed link to the generated career development activity page; and

a career library production system operable to cause a modification of at least one of the career development pages.

8. The system of claim 7 and further comprising:

a computer network having first and second computer systems, the first computer system having a storage device;

wherein the career development pages are stored on the storage device of the first computer system; and

wherein the second computer system includes the user interface system.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the first computer system comprises a file server system.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein the career development pages further comprise a series of hypertext linked documents accessed utilizing a web-based interface.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the career library production system is operable to modify at least one of the career development tables.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the career library production system is operable to create at least one of the career development tables.

13. The system of claim 7 wherein the user interface system is operable to display on the display device a link between the selected one of the career development pages and another one of the career development pages.

14. The system of claim 7 wherein the user interface system is operable to receive user input identifying a career development page associated with the selected one of the career development pages, and to display on the display device information stored in the career development page associated with the selected one of the career development pages.

15. A method for processing career development information in a computer system, comprising the steps of:

storing information pertaining to a plurality of skills in a plurality of tables on the computer system;

receiving input from a curriculum designer identifying a change in the plurality of skills;

modifying at least one of the plurality of tables in accordance with the input from the curriculum designer;

processing a plurality of pointers, the pointers operable to identify a relationship between at least two of the tables;

converting the plurality of tables into a plurality of pages;

generating a career development activity associated the a career development activity;

linking one of the pages to at least one other page in response to the processed pointers;

displaying one of the pages, the displayed page having a list of links associated with the plurality of skills, each link operable to display a particular page associated with a particular skill when selected;

receiving input from a user of the computer system identifying a selected one of the skills, the input being operable to select the link associated with the selected one of the skills; and

displaying on a display device the linked page associated with the selected one of the skills, the linked page including a link to the career development activity page associated with the selected one of the skills.

16. The method of claim 15 and further comprising the step of displaying on the display device a description of the selected one of the skills.

17. The method of claim 15 and further comprising the step of displaying on the display device information associated with the development activity.

18. The method of claim 15 and further comprising the step of displaying a skill group including the plurality of skills.

19. The method of claim 15 and further comprising the step of displaying on the display device information associated with the skill group.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein the step of receiving input from the curriculum designer comprises the step of receiving input from the curriculum designer identifying a new skill to be added to the plurality of skills.

21. A method for processing career development information in a computer system, comprising:

accessing a plurality of career development entries in a development activity table, each career development entry including a name of a career development activity;

accessing a plurality of skill entries in a skill table, one of the skill entries associated with the development activity table;

generating a career development activity page for each career development entry;

converting the development activity table into a development activity list page for each skill entry, the development activity list page including at least one hypertext link to one of the career development activity pages;

displaying a specific development activity list page using a web browser;

receiving an input from a user using the web browser;

selecting a hypertext link in response to the input; and

navigating between the development activity list page and one of the career development activity pages in response to the selected hypertext link.

22. The method of claim 21 and further comprising:

storing a plurality of curriculum entries in a curriculum table, at least one of the curriculum entries associated with the skill table;

converting the skill table into a skill group page, the skill group page including a list of skills associated with a specific skill group, the list including at least one hypertext link to the career development activity list page;

converting the curriculum table into a curriculum list page, the curriculum list page including at least one hypertext link to the skill group page;

displaying the curriculum list page; and

navigating between the curriculum list page and one of the career development activity pages in response to a plurality of additional inputs entered by the user using the web browser.