Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090112646 | REPEATABLE AND STANDARDIZED APPROACH FOR DEPLOYMENT OF A PORTABLE SOA INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN A CLIENT ENVIRONMENT - The present invention discloses a repeatable and standardized approach for deploying a SOA infrastructure to client environments. The approach is designed to accelerate a deployment by leveraging existing integration assets and utilizing a phased approach when executing the deployment. It is preferred to perform the integration with significant client participation, which speeds the deployment process while ensuring knowledge of a resulting SOA solution is transferred to a client's IT team. Stages of the phased approach can include a transition enablement stage, an environment preparation stage, a sandbox delivery stage, and an integration and skills transfer stage. | 04-30-2009 |
20090113310 | ROLE TAILORED PORTAL SOLUTION INTEGRATING NEAR REAL-TIME METRICS, BUSINESS LOGIC, ONLINE COLLABORATION, AND WEB 2.0 CONTENT - The disclosed solution provides a tailored user experience available through a Web portal that addresses the multiple-view, multiple-data needs of operations, supervisory, policy making, and executive personnel of an organization. These various roles can all be concerned with measurement/assessment of an organization's compliance with performance targets, for which real-time, near real-time or other metrics are gathered. The metrics can be presented in a role tailored fashion to the portal users in near real-time along with federation of analysis and trend calculation output. Business logic can be applied to the federated data and near real-time metrics to automatically effectuate actions and/or to suggest responses when received metrics exceed previously established boundaries. Collaboration tools and Web 2.0 information sharing technologies can be integrated in the portal to facilitate rapid coordinated responses and to share information across the organization. | 04-30-2009 |
20090113385 | SOA SOFTWARE COMPONENTS THAT ENDURE FROM PROTOTYPING TO PRODUCTION - The disclosed invention presents a multi-phased approach for developing a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution using front end SOA components that endure throughout the SOA development lifecycle. The approach can determine interface requirements between a set of services to be implemented in a SOA solution and SOA front end. The SOA front end can conform to the determined interface requirements. The SOA front end can also be interactively utilized early within and can be applicable to all phases of a SOA lifecycle, which includes design, development, and implementation phases. The SOA front end can be combined with a service emulator to form an interactive prototype of the SOA solution. The SOA front end can also be combined with a set of SOA back end components to form the SOA solution. | 04-30-2009 |
20090313562 | OUTAGE MANAGEMENT PORTAL LEVERAGING BACK-END RESOURCES TO CREATE A ROLE AND USER TAILORED FRONT-END INTERFACE FOR COORDINATING OUTAGE RESPONSES - A solution for centrally managing and federating outage specific information and for rapidly providing controlled access to this information in a role tailored fashion. The information can be gathered and provided in real-time along with programmatically determined proposed actions. An information recipient can configure and dynamically change the manner in which the information is presented, so that relevant information for that recipient can be rapidly digested. For example, a manager with a moderate level of technical knowledge may want information to be presented pictorially and in summary fashion, while a highly technical troubleshooter may want to configure information presentation to show key network statistics and values. In one embodiment, outage information can be presented in a Web portal having multiple discrete and customizable portlets, which include a geography portlet and a system portlet. | 12-17-2009 |
20100153283 | ELECTRONIC PROFESSIONAL MENTORING FRAMEWORK - Mentoring relationships between mentors and protégés can be established within mentoring data that conforms to standards of a mentoring framework. For each mentoring relationship, a mentoring path can be established. Each mentoring path can include a set of defined phases, each phase having a bounded beginning and ending, each phase further including at least one goal, at least one activity completion of which marks a progression towards achieving an associated goal, and timelines associated with at least one of the activities. Interactive user interfaces can be presented upon network attached client devices to users assigned a mentoring role who participate in at least one mentoring relationship for which the mentoring data is maintained. Performance input can be received via the interactive user interfaces, which results in the mentoring data being updated. “Web 2.0-style” techniques can be leveraged to gather rating and access information associated with content or electronic assets, thereby augmenting “conventional” approaches that rate only the delivery of the mentorship relationship itself A progression along the mentoring path can be changed based upon the updated mentoring data. | 06-17-2010 |
20100198649 | ROLE TAILORED DASHBOARDS AND SCORECARDS IN A PORTAL SOLUTION THAT INTEGRATES RETRIEVED METRICS ACROSS AN ENTERPRISE - A user can log into an organization portal. An organizational role can be determined for the user. For a decision maker, a set of metric driven portlets can be graphically presented within the organization portal. The metrics driven portlets can include at least one scorecard and at least one dashboard, each tailored for the determined organizational role. The scorecard and the dashboard can be dynamically updated based upon metrics provided by a plurality of discrete services. The discrete services can obtain the metrics from a set of geographically distributed data sources. The discrete services can be functionally independent of each other and can be responsible for federating data in a portlet and role specific manner. Online collaboration capabilities can be provided through collaboration and alerting portlets of the organization portal, and which can be tailored for the determined organizational role. The collaboration and alerting portlets provide the ability for action takers and decision makers to effectively share information. The organizational role based portal, providing users with appropriate metrics, near real time and/or cumulative data, and collaboration capabilities to trigger effective sharing of information and decision making is the overarching theme and embodiment of this invention, which enables action takers with the ability to raise awareness of potential issues to appropriate decision makers. With such awareness, decision makers can leverage scorecard metrics to determine appropriate courses of action and to communicate directives back to action takers. | 08-05-2010 |
20120115122 | DYNAMIC ROLE-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL SYMBIONT FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT - The disclosure provides a computer-based learning system that minimizes the “distance” between applications (for which instructions are provided) and the instructions themselves. That is, the instructional material provided is dynamically integrated with a “state” of one or more applications, which constantly change as a user interacts with the application. Further, the instructional information is visually presented within a common screen, window, or focus region as the application, in a minimally intrusive manner. For example, the instruction window can be an overlay that is designed to “hide from” or to avoid obscuring application content of particular interest to a user. Various techniques can be used to ensure the instructions are provided unobtrusively, including use of transparency settings to make instructions legible, resizing techniques, variable shading, font size/contrast/style adjustments, and the like. | 05-10-2012 |
20130067428 | SERVICE EMULATOR SUBSTITUTING FOR BACKEND COMPONENTS TO SATISFY NEEDS OF FRONT END COMPONENTS - Interface requirements for a set of services to be implemented between service oriented architecture (SOA) front end components and SOA back end components can be identified. A service emulator can be created that satisfies service call and data needs of the SOA front end components. The SOA front end components are operable to be combined with the service emulator to form an interactive prototype. The SOA front end components are operable to be combined with the SOA back end components to form an operable SOA solution. | 03-14-2013 |
20140315180 | AUTOMATED ESSAY EVALUATION SYSTEM - Automated essay evaluation includes receiving an essay in text form and determining, using a processor, curriculum data for the essay. The curriculum data includes evaluation criteria for the essay and specifies an instructor. A profile for the instructor including a writing preference for the instructor is retrieved. Using the processor, a plurality of queries for the essay can be generated according the curriculum data for the essay and the profile for the instructor. Using the processor executing an inference engine, a conclusion for each of the queries is determined according to confidence scores. The essay is scored according to the conclusions. | 10-23-2014 |
20140330669 | LEVERAGING READER PERFORMANCE TO PROVIDE A PUBLICATION RECOMMENDATION - A user associated with an educational institution is identified. The institution can include a curriculum. The user can be associated with a profile. The profile can include characteristics associated with the user. The characteristics can include a skill associated with the curriculum and a performance indicator associated with the skill. The skill can be a learned capacity to carry out a pre-determined result. The characteristics can be analyzed to determine a proficiency or a deficiency in the skill. The analyzing can evaluate the performance metric. An enhancement data associated with a publication within a publication repository can be determined. The enhancement data can include target skill and a target characteristic. The publication repository can be an electronic catalog and/or a physical library. The publication can be a physical media and an electronic media. | 11-06-2014 |