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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2007
Melania Degeratu, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Neal M. Keller, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Michael Sava, Peekskill, NY (US);
Wlodek W. Zadrozny, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Melania Degeratu, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Neal M. Keller, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Michael Sava, Peekskill, NY (US);
Wlodek W. Zadrozny, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Lei Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention includes a workforce management system having a system bus, at least one database in communication with the system bus that includes data representative of workforce employees, and social networking data associated with the employees. A matching functional unit includes a text mining function for mining contextual information from the at least one database to generate context labels for an employee, a clustering function for generating concept labels for an employee, and a matching function that sorts and matches employees by the labels in accordance with a matching criteria. A user interface provides user input to the support operation of the workforce management system.