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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1998
Dwight D Driskell, Birmingham, AL (US);
Michael Greenspan, New York, NY (US);
Vivian C Henley, Jackson, MS (US);
Nancy C Lane, Birmingham, AL (US);
Lloyd MacFarlane, Mahopac, NY (US);
Betty J Nielsen, St. Amant, LA (US);
BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing and analyzing information regarding the association of services with elements of an organization. The system gathers information encoded in electronic form, organizes it into a services list, and correlates it with elements of an organization that are classified in an organizational hierarchy. A user of the system may examine a selected elements at any level of the organizational hierarchy and obtain information regarding all associated services, or vice versa. A user may further synchronize the services list and organizational hierarchy in such a manner that selection of an item from one displays corresponding data from the other.