50 results about "Organizational hierarchy" patented technology

Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system. A method of displaying digital asset of a distributed computing system according to an organization specified by the end-user of a client includes: receiving an organization semantic having at least one depth level from an end-user of the client, the organization semantic specifying at least one attribute of a digital asset identification tag; and displaying, to the end-user of the client, on a virtual computing element the digital assets of the distributed computing system that substantially match the organization semantic defined by the end-user, without reference to a pre-existing organizational hierarchy of the distributed computing environment.

An email content management method, system and program are provided for mapping a plurality of received electronic mail (email) messages to a plurality of predetermined graphical representations of an email Inbox. Predetermined sender and originating information is associated with an email. When the email is received by the recipient, the associated sender and originating information is used to map the email to a graphical Inbox depicting the email's originating location. Once mapped, the corresponding email graphical Inbox is represented in a graphical display, such as the user interface of an email client. Graphical Inboxes can be represented as subsets of a geographical map or depict an organizational hierarchy chart. Status information related to the received email messages is generated and display attributes are applied to their corresponding email graphical Inboxes.

A system for automatically providing different levels of formality controls in a communication is disclosed, in which a formality level is determined based on a current communication context. The formality level is used to enable an appropriate level of automatic checking of the communication contents. The determination of a formality level for a communication may be based on any specific context information regarding the participants and/or contents of a communication. including but not limited to the relative positions of participants within an organizational hierarchy (“organizational distance”), the professional relationships of the participants (e.g. service provider to client/customer), the frequency of communications between participants, the geographic locations of participants, the number of previous errors in the communication contents, configurable participant preferences, express communication settings by participants, etc. The determined formality level may be used to enable any specific type or level of automatic message contents checking, including but not limited to various types and levels of spell checking (e.g. location specific spell checking), grammar checking, acronym substitution, cultural filtering, etc. The disclosed system may determine organisational distances based on the contents of user directories, such as lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directories.

A computer program product provides collaborative accountability in meeting workflows by including appropriate notification and endorsement of workflow events by an accountability network which includes supervisors in an organizational hierarchy. Workflow events may include invitations to attend meetings, delegations of those invitations, meeting attendance, and action items generated within meetings.

Lightweight LDAP Access Control for authorization and personalization integrates with a directory service for defining sessions for users and groups without requiring read access or modification to directory schemas. In one exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementation, authorization/personalization data is stored in a private data store outside of the LDAP directory (e.g., on a management or other server). When a user attempts to log on to the computer system, the LDAP directory is queried for a list of associated groups and/or organizational units in the normal way. To compute a resulting set of authorization/personalization rules applicable to the user, an entity (.e.g., the management or other server) traverses the organizational hierarchy of the directory groups/OU's, overriding the inherited attributes with explicitly associated ones. Integration with existing user/group/organization unit infrastructures is provided while avoiding the need to deploy additional user/group databases. In one example arrangement, an LDAP directory is queried for the list of groups and OUs during user logon. There is no need to replicate user/group directory data in a private data store of the Management Server. This improves performance and eliminates the need to synchronize data between the directory and the private data store of the Management Server. To compute the resulting set of authorization/personalization rules applicable to a user, the Management Server traverses the organizational hierarchy of directory groups/OUs, overriding the inherited attributes with the explicitly mapped ones. This minimizes the amount of administrative work for restricting access to protected resources for individuals. In many cases, users will simply inherit authorization/personalization data from the group/OUs they are members of.

A method for delivering an application service defines an organizational hierarchy, defines an expanded role graph by mapping the organizational hierarchy to an authority structure in the form of a role graph, and defines a service creation policy based on authority information of each role depending on the expanded role graph. The method then creates a software service based on the defined authority information of each role.

A system and method exploits organizational distances associated with an organizational hierarchy in a directed acyclic graph to both affect behavior in instant messaging systems, as well as to modify behavior (presence, IM, availability, who can get to the IM user) based on the reporting relationships that exist in an organization. One part of the invention is in exploiting a directed acyclic graph for the purposes of controlling instant messaging behavior for an individual, a team or a community. This is accommodated by abstracting organizational reporting relationships. The reporting relationships that exist in LDAP are used to enforce top-down rules which determine actions that motivate a change in behavior for instant messaging users across the organization. Such actions are not possible to motivate in conventional art. Conventional art relies on rules that a specific user manually builds, and do not consider capabilities around hierarchical imposition, not a reporting team/group/organizational. The present invention may force a change in behavior for a plurality of instant messaging users based on reporting relationships.

An organization asset database (ADb) is described that contains a complete, up-to-date, secure, and easily accessible inventory of the organization's assets. Each asset is mapped onto a structure that represents the organizational hierarchy of the organization, which provides for multiple levels of accountability for each asset. Each asset has one or more roles in relation to other assets in the ADb and has one or more entitlements in relation to other assets in the ADb. The relationship between assets ensures that the ADb is complete and up-to-date and allows for easy filtering and retrieval of the information contained in the ADb.

Systems and methods recommend documents or directories in an enterprise context by analyzing use proximity in the organizational hierarchy to find similar users. Evidence may be used from different sources to gage the degree of interest a user may have in a document. Such pieces of evidence may include viewing page thumbnails, viewing the document online, or printing, saving, or bookmarking the document. To make managing these different sources of evidence from users related by different degrees tractable, a model may be created where evidence values decay by different amounts over time and are combined with different weights. Additionally, these systems and methods also can make use of the directory structure of the document space to recommend directories as well as individual documents.

The exchange of documents for execution can be performed efficiently using an automated system that routes and archives documents. The system may facilitate the exchange of drafts between parties by highlighting changes of the current draft with respect to the previous draft. Documents may be conveniently archived for efficient document storage and access by providing one or more central archive databases accessible through a shared network to a plurality of organizations. The operating system of the database may provide systematic access to individuals associated with an organization with the privilege to access documents according to a specific organizational hierarchy. Routing and archiving documents may be accomplished through a central exchange server.

The behavior of a messaging system can be modified. A message from a sender can be received. A determination can be made that the message is associated with a workflow. A position of the sender within an organizational hierarchy can be identified. The workflow associated with the message can be initiated according to the position of the sender.

A system correlates intellectual property analyzes, for example, patent claim charts, with respect to analyzed intellectual property and a target product or other intellectual property. Analyzes are stored to enable searching and/or creating reports over multiple analyzes. Units of the analysis are associated with a context, inherited, e.g., from the intellectual property document's assignment to a relative role within organizational hierarchy; and associated with a context derived from the analysis itself. The analysis and respective documents and/or targets of the analysis can be searched/retrieved/analyzed from the hierarchical analysis, the context analysis, and/or the content of the analysis. This obviates the need to store each analysis as a separate document. The target or annotations may be visually represented by an item such as a thumbnail or hyperlink, and the system automatically associates the item with the appropriate application program.

A social network system with an organizational hierarchy established to include a main group with at least one subgroup reporting to the main group. At least one of the one subgroup has field users reporting to the subgroup. Each subgroup has multiple subgroup users while the main group at the apex of the hierarchy has at least one main group user. A server is provided that receives messages from the field users and subgroup users. The field user- and subgroup-messages are communicated to a wireless device associated with the main group user while a first subgroup user receives on a wireless device messages from first subgroup field users on a wireless device. The server employs communication permissions for the organization hierarchy that limit the information to which a member of the organization hierarchy is able to receive based on the role filled by an organization hierarchy member.

A method and system for automatically managing changes to organizational data in a unified messaging (UM) platform are disclosed. A database snapshot is retrieved from a client human resources database. The database snapshot includes human resources information organized in an organizational hierarchy. A change is detected in the database snapshot from a previous database snapshot, and organizational data in the UM platform is automatically modified to reflect the detected change in the database snapshot. When the change is detected in the database snapshot, it is possible for the UM platform to automatically compose and send a message to at least one user associated with the change including potential modifications of the organization data. The organizational data in the UM platform can then be modified only in response to receiving approval of the potential modifications of the organizational data from at least one user associated with the change.

A method and system for facilitating analysis of risks. Items, families of items, risks, sub-categories of risks, and categories of risks are weighted. Items are related to each other by a common business function. The risks are associated with each item. For each item, each associated risk is evaluated to determine whether the risk is mitigated. Risk ratings associated with the items or families are calculated using at least risk evaluations and weights assigned to risks and items. The risk ratings are summarized in selectable views which are based on the sub-categories or categories, and which are to be analyzed by wide-ranging levels in a business organizational hierarchy.

An organizational model of a hierarchical system can be distributed across various elements of an enterprise. Such elements include representations of the system that are maintained on higher-level business servers and other representations that serve control elements of the system such as programmable logic controllers and/or other industrial control components. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes at least one controller to instantiate a portion of an organizational hierarchy. A communications component in the controller interacts with at least one other portion of the organizational hierarchy to facilitate data exchange and control between various components of an enterprise.

The use of computer technology and the internet to quickly locate, view, compare, and select marketable products or other data arranged according to selected Key Parameters. The growth of the internet has exceeded the capacity of existing technologies and business methods to allow business and consumer users to sort through a vast sea of data. Variable Field Names expressed as Key Parameters builds upon the simple concept of organizational hierarchy, and enables the manipulation of data in a specific manner through the internet to the marketplace, in which all conceivable products, whatever their use or country of manufacture, can be located, reviewed, compared, and selected for purchase. The invention uses a hierarchy-based software system that will allow the computer user to search and find required data directly. This invention is a system and method of identifying, selecting and displaying Key or most important attributes or parameters associated with each product Type. The user will no longer waste time sifting through search results that are not germane to his needs or are outside the needs of his current search.

A method and system for automatically defining and provisioning organizational data in a unified messaging (UM) platform are disclosed. An adapter in a unified messaging platform connects to at least one client human resources database. Human resources information that is organized in an organizational hierarchy is retrieved from the human resources database, and hierarchical organizational data is automatically generated in the UM platform based on the organizational hierarchy of the human resources information retrieved from the human resources database. UM mailboxes are provisioned to messaging centers in the UM platform based on the hierarchical organizational data.