System for and method of processing business personnel information

• US 8,825,706 B1
• Filed: 10/12/2012
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carnegie Research Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Carnegie Research Incorporated
• Inventors: Hudock, Robert Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US13/651,027
• Time in Patent Office: 690 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-899
• US Class Current: 707/791
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

Information for personnel of a plurality of business organizations is collected. For each person, the information includes the name of the person, the identity of a business organization that the person currently works for and biographical information containing any affiliations identified for the person. Information for a plurality of affiliations is collected and a table of the affiliations is generated, the table of affiliations being stored in computer-readable storage. From the collected information, a data structure is generated and is stored in computer-readable storage. The first data structure includes an entry for each match between the biographical information of a person and an affiliation included in the table of affiliations. A query of a user may be responded to by executing a computer-implemented process on the first data structure. Results of the query are displayed for the user.

Claims

1. A system for processing business personnel information comprising:

a database being stored in computer-readable storage and comprising

personnel information, including information for personnel of a plurality of business organizations including, for each person, the name of the person, the identity of a business organization that the person currently works for and biographical information containing any affiliations identified for the person,

a table of affiliations including a list of organizations,

a personnel affiliations table having a plurality of entries and each entry comprising a match between the biographical information of a person and an affiliation included in the table of the affiliations;

a processor for executing a plurality of software queries on the information contained in the database in response to input from a user; and

a display device for displaying results of the queries.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the queries of the user comprise a selection of two business organizations and wherein the results comprise a list of common affiliations between personnel of the two business organizations.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the results identify a single person being affiliated with the two business organizations as one degree of separation.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the results identify two or more persons currently working for either of the two business organizations and that have a common affiliation as two degrees of separation.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the queries of the user comprise a selection of a particular business organization and a particular person and wherein the results comprise a list of common affiliations and personnel between the particular business organization and the particular person.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the results identify the particular person having an affiliation with the particular business organization as one degree of separation.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein the results identify the particular person having a common affiliation with another person whose current company is the particular business organization as two degrees of separation.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the queries of the user comprise a selection of a particular business organization and wherein the results comprise a list of affiliations of the personnel of that business organization.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the queries of the user comprise a selection of a particular affiliation and wherein the results comprise a list of personnel and business organizations associated with the particular affiliation.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the queries of the user comprise a selection of a particular person and wherein the results comprise a list of identified affiliations of the particular person.

11. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a table of nicknames for the affiliations.