Resource finder tool
View Patent ↗Systems and techniques to develop an enterprise management consolidation system are described including a cross-functional application to provide communication between at least one of an object modeling tool, a process modeling tool and a user interface tool. The user interface tool is configured to find resources having desired characteristics. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes receiving characteristics of a resource desired by a user and searching a data source of resource profiles to locate profiles having one or more of the characteristics. The located profiles are provided to the user in a hit-list, which may then be narrowed by receiving from the user refinements or segment filters.
1. A method comprising:
storing a data source of resource profiles associated with a plurality of resources, each resource being at least one of a plurality of resource types;
receiving, through a user interface, one or more first attributes of a resource desired by a user, wherein receiving attributes comprises receiving a search template from the user and the search template is auto-configured based on the resource type, attributes, or facets;
searching, using a processor, the data source of resource profiles for profiles having one or more of the first attributes;
providing, to the user, a hit-list of resources having the one or more first attributes;
receiving one or more second attributes of the resource through a refinement user interface;
searching, using a processor, the hit-list for resources having the one or more second attributes;
providing, to the user, a narrowed hit-list of resources having the one or more first and second attributes;
storing the hit-list as a collection of resources which is used for further actions or stored as a persistent collection,
automatically creating two or more segments of the narrowed hit-list by grouping the resources according to one of a plurality of attribute dimensions generating, for the user, statistics associated with the segments;
receiving a selection of two or more segments through the user interface;
providing, to the user, a subset of the narrowed hit-list based on the selected two or more segments; and
using the hit-list to create a community, the community only including users sharing the first attribute.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying, in response to a user query, resources of the hit-list for user inspection;
maintaining a list of resources displayed for inspection by the user;
displaying a search history of search queries previously entered by a user, including a list of resources previously displayed;
allowing the user to back-navigate to a search within the search history by displaying the corresponding hit-list; and
displaying the list of inspected resources as the hit-list.
3. The method of claim 1 , comprising defining the resource profiles by facets, attributes, and descriptions of the sources of the attributes.
4. The method of claim 3 , comprising generating a pattern-based user interface of a search tool from the resource profile.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving at least one selected resource type;
providing a second narrowed hit-list of resources having the selected resource type from the narrowed hit-list;
storing the second narrowed hit-list as a second collection of resources for using for further actions or storing as a persistent collection.
6. The method of claim 5 , comprising storing the collection of resources dynamically or statically.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising aggregating the narrowed hit-list with an existing collection of resources.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the existing collection of resources comprises an historical listing of aggregated narrowed hit-lists.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the search template is defined by the user.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the search template comprises a multi-resource query that returns resources of more than one resource type.
11. The method of claim 1 , comprising saving and re-using the search template.
12. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing contact information in response to a user query to enable communication with resources in the community.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the narrowed hit-list is displayed based on the resource type.
14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the resource type is a person and the attributes include at least one of licenses received, papers published, languages spoken, demographic information, title in an organization, activities.
15. The method of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of selected resource types are received through the refinement user interface.
16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
combining the stored collection of resources with a second collection of resources to create a fifth collection of resources.
17. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
storing the second collection of resources by selecting a subset of the second narrowed hit-list.
18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collection of resources is stored under a name provided by a user.
19. The method of claim 5 , wherein the second narrowed hit-list includes heterogeneous resources.
20. The method of claim 3 , wherein the facets include at least one of collaboration, qualification, interests, and activities.
21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the narrowed hit-list of resources is provided from the hit-list.
22. A machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, tangibly recorded on the storage medium, for performing a method when executed by at least one processor, the method comprising:
storing a data source of resource profiles associated with a plurality of resources, each resource being at least one of a plurality of resource types;
receiving, through a user interface, one or more first attributes of a resource desired by a user, wherein receiving attributes comprises receiving a search template from the user and the search template is auto-configured based on the resource type, attributes, or facets;
searching the data source of resource profiles for profiles having one or more of the first attributes;
providing, to the user, a hit-list of resources having the one or more first attributes;
receiving one or more second attributes of the resource through a refinement user interface;
searching, using a processor, the hit-list for resources having the one or more second attributes;
providing, to the user, a narrowed hit-list of resources having the one or more first and second attributes;
storing the narrowed hit-list as a collection of resources which is used for further actions or stored as a persistent collection;
automatically creating two or more segments of the narrowed hit-list by grouping the resources according to one of a plurality of attribute dimensions;
generating, for the user, statistics associated with the segments;
receiving a selection of two or more segments through the user interface;
providing, to the user, a subset of the narrowed hit-list based on the selected two or more segments; and
using the hit-list to create a community, the community only including users sharing the first attribute.
23. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 22 , further comprising:
displaying, in response to a user query, resources of the hit-list for user inspection;
maintaining a list of resources displayed for inspection by the user;
displaying a search history of search queries previously entered by a user, including a list of resources previously displayed;
allowing the user to back-navigate to a search within the search history by displaying the corresponding hit-list; and
displaying the list of inspected resources as the hit-list.
24. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 22 , comprising defining the resource profiles by facets, attributes, and descriptions of the sources of the attributes.
25. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 24 , comprising generating a pattern-based user interface of a search tool from the resource profile.
26. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 23 , further comprising:
receiving at least one selected resource type;
providing a second narrowed hit-list of resources having the selected resource type from the narrowed hit-list; and
storing the second narrowed hit-list as a second collection of resources for using for further actions or storing as a persistent collection.
27. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 22 , further comprising aggregating the narrowed hit-list with an existing collection of resources.
28. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 27 , wherein the existing collection of resources comprises an historical listing of aggregated narrowed hit-lists.
29. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 26 , further comprising storing instructions operable to cause the one or more machines to perform operations comprising creating a layout of the segments of the narrowed hit-list by discrete values of an attribute dimension.