Displaying a contextual organization chart with awareness
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1. A method of presenting an organization structure, comprising the steps of:
- providing a database of names of individuals in an organization, each of said individual names having an associated manager name and a profile;
presenting a view of the names of individuals on a display to a user;
receiving, from the user, a selection of a first and a second individual from said organization;
constructing automatically, in response to the selection, a view showing names of those in a manager chain of said first and second individuals, every name in the manager chain being a name of at least one of the first individual, the second individual or a manager of either of the first or second individual up to the point where there is a common manager, and then a single manager chain to at least one manager at a higher level than the common manager in said organization, wherein the single manager chain showing only manager names above the common manager, wherein the constructing is configured to construct the view from any first and second individual in said organization regardless of whether the first and second individual share a common immediate manager;
appending a nesting control indicator to the names in said view; and
displaying said view on the display to the user, wherein the view allows the user to;
access said profile by selecting a name in said view, and expand said view by selecting said nesting control indicator, wherein the profile is displayed in proximity to the respective name in the view, and wherein the profile includes at least;
a job title and a work location.
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Abstract
A contextual organization chart based on two selected individuals is constructed from a database of individual names, manager names, and profiles. Awareness data is provided for people in the organization, a people awareness indicator and a nesting control indicator are appended to names in the constructed view. A user may access profile data by selecting a name in the view, expand the view to show additional individuals by selecting a nesting control indicator, or initiate a communication with an individual by selecting an awareness indicator.
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1. A method of presenting an organization structure, comprising the steps of:
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providing a database of names of individuals in an organization, each of said individual names having an associated manager name and a profile; presenting a view of the names of individuals on a display to a user; receiving, from the user, a selection of a first and a second individual from said organization; constructing automatically, in response to the selection, a view showing names of those in a manager chain of said first and second individuals, every name in the manager chain being a name of at least one of the first individual, the second individual or a manager of either of the first or second individual up to the point where there is a common manager, and then a single manager chain to at least one manager at a higher level than the common manager in said organization, wherein the single manager chain showing only manager names above the common manager, wherein the constructing is configured to construct the view from any first and second individual in said organization regardless of whether the first and second individual share a common immediate manager; appending a nesting control indicator to the names in said view; and displaying said view on the display to the user, wherein the view allows the user to;
access said profile by selecting a name in said view, and expand said view by selecting said nesting control indicator, wherein the profile is displayed in proximity to the respective name in the view, and wherein the profile includes at least;
a job title and a work location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for presenting an organization structure, comprising:
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a database of names of individuals in an organization, each of said individual names having an associated manager name and a profile; a display for displaying a view of the names of individuals to a user; means for constructing automatically, in response to the user selecting a first and a second individual from the names of individuals, a view showing names of those in a manager chain of said first and second individuals, every name in the manager chain being a name of at least one of the first individual, the second individual or a manager of either of the first or second individual up to the point where there is a common manager, and then a single manager chain to at least one manager at a higher level than the common manager in said organization, wherein the single manager chain showing only manager names above the common manager, wherein the constructing is configured to construct the view from any first and second individual in said organization regardless of whether the first and second individual share a common immediate manager; the means for constructing automatically further comprising wherein a nesting control indicator is appended to the names in the view; and the display for further displaying said view to the user, wherein the view allows the user to;
access said profile by selecting a name in said view, and expand said view by selecting said nesting control indicator, wherein the profile is displayed in proximity to the respective name in the view, and wherein the profile includes at least;
a job title and a work location. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A non-transitory computer readable medium wherein program instruction means are recorded on said medium for instructing a processor to present an organization structure, comprising:
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first program instruction means for providing a database of names of individuals in an organization, each of said individual names having an associated manager name and a profile, and presenting a view of the names of individuals on a display to a user; second program instruction means for receiving, from the user, a selection of a first and a second individual from said organization; third program instruction means for constructing automatically, in response to the selection, a view showing names of those in a manager chain of said first and second individuals, every name in the manager chain being a name of at least one of the first individual, the second individual or a manager of either of the first or second individual up to the point where there is a common manager, and then a single manager chain to at least one manager at a higher level than the common manager in said organization, wherein the single manager chain showing only manager names above the common manager, wherein the constructing is configured to construct the view from any first and second individual in said organization regardless of whether the first and second individual share a common immediate manager; fourth program instruction means for appending a nesting control indicator to the names in said view; and fifth program instruction means for displaying said view on the display to the user, wherein the view allows the user to;
access said profile by selecting a name in said view, and expand said view by selecting said nesting control indicator, wherein the profile is displayed in proximity to the respective name in the view, and wherein the profile includes at least;
a job title and a work location; andwherein all of said program instruction means are recorded on said medium. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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