Patent Application
20170262535
The present invention relates generally to a method for retrieving user data and in particular to a method and associated system for summarizing details associated with retrieved user data.
Monitoring data associated with individuals typically includes an inaccurate process with little flexibility. Organizing the monitored data may include a complicated process that may be time consuming and require a large amount of resources. Accordingly, there exists a need in the art to overcome at least some of the deficiencies and limitations described herein above.
A first aspect of the invention provides a method comprising: retrieving, by a computer processor of a computing system, event data comprising time stamped artifacts generated during activities performed by a user; extracting, by the computer processor from the event data, attributes associated with the activities performed by the user; segmenting, by the computer processor based on the attributes, the event data into logical groups of related activities associated with the activities performed by the user; identifying, by the computer processor, key information associated with each logical group of the logical groups of related activities with respect to the activities performed by the user; identifying, by the computer processor from the key information, logical group attributes associated with each the logical group; evaluating, by the computer processor executing a sentiment analysis with respect to the event data and communications of the user, the user; ranking, by the computer processor based on results of the evaluating, the logical groups of related activities; presenting, by the computer processor to the user the logical groups of related activities according to results of the ranking; and generating, by the computer processor based on the ranking, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups of related activities.
A second aspect of the invention provides a computing system comprising a computer processor coupled to a computer-readable memory unit, the memory unit comprising instructions that when executed by the computer processor implements a method comprising: retrieving, by the computer processor, event data comprising time stamped artifacts generated during activities performed by a user; extracting, by the computer processor from the event data, attributes associated with the activities performed by the user; segmenting, by the computer processor based on the attributes, the event data into logical groups of related activities associated with the activities performed by the user; identifying, by the computer processor, key information associated with each logical group of the logical groups of related activities with respect to the activities performed by the user; identifying, by the computer processor from the key information, logical group attributes associated with each the logical group; evaluating, by the computer processor executing a sentiment analysis with respect to the event data and communications of the user, the user; ranking, by the computer processor based on results of the evaluating, the logical groups of related activities; presenting, by the computer processor to the user the logical groups of related activities according to results of the ranking; and generating, by the computer processor based on the ranking, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups of related activities.
A third aspect of the invention provides a computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device storing a computer readable program code, the computer readable program code comprising an algorithm that when executed by a computer processor of a computing system implements a method, the method comprising: retrieving, by the computer processor, event data comprising time stamped artifacts generated during activities performed by a user; extracting, by the computer processor from the event data, attributes associated with the activities performed by the user; segmenting, by the computer processor based on the attributes, the event data into logical groups of related activities associated with the activities performed by the user; identifying, by the computer processor, key information associated with each logical group of the logical groups of related activities with respect to the activities performed by the user; identifying, by the computer processor from the key information, logical group attributes associated with each the logical group; evaluating, by the computer processor executing a sentiment analysis with respect to the event data and communications of the user, the user; ranking, by the computer processor based on results of the evaluating, the logical groups of related activities; presenting, by the computer processor to the user the logical groups of related activities according to results of the ranking; and generating, by the computer processor based on the ranking, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups of related activities.
The present invention advantageously provides a simple method and associated system capable of monitoring data.
System 100 of
System 100 enables a process for generating summary details from a calendar, an email, or a community invite event as follows:
1. A set of time-stamped artifacts is received. The set of time-stamped artifacts represent professional activities forming an evidence stream. The set of time-stamped artifacts may include, inter alia, emails, calendar invites, personal activity logs, communities and associated documents, etc. Each type of artifact requires a dedicated information extraction process performed for an associated format using a selected library for a dedicated relation extraction/targeted information extraction process associated with relevant information such as, inter alia, customer satisfaction, project risks and challenges, a set of predefined extractors, etc.
2. An evidence stream is segmented into projects via discovery of a project start/end time.
3. Key information for each project discovered is identified. The identification process may include locating attributes describing each user participation/contribution and identify roles/IDs with respect to project participants that may include, inter alia, a customer, a customer executive, in-house colleagues, team members, subordinates, etc.
4. Attributes of a specific project are located. The attributes may include technology used, an industry associated with a client in a respective project, a size of a team of the respective project.
5. Recognition points within the documents associated with the respective project/episode cluster are located by performing a sentiment analysis with respect to a communication from a specific client or externally posted information and quantitative markers of project success.
6. Projects are ranked in terms of relevance in response to a prompt from an application being completed. The prompt comprises a selected prompt from a plurality of prompts including a request to describe a project and work function via a specified scripting language. Associated candidate activities are judged to match information specified in a template through various similarity judgments including, inter alia, evidence of a topical match using semantic and entity analytics against an agenda/description of a specified event. Information associated with attendees or audience at a specified event is retrieved from personal profiles or information present within the set of time-stamped artifacts including, inter alia, contact lists, etc. The information is enriched through mining external attendee information using links to information within social media repositories.
System 100 enables a process for mining a personal information manager (PIM) or a calendar to extract attributes for:
1. Extracting attributes from any source storing event information (for an event) stored within source control repositories , etc.
2. Building a list of activities and tasks performed over a history of the event source information via topical matches (e.g., employed by semantic and entity analytics) or additional methods such as, inter alia, training a learning model.
3. Summarizing a plurality of historical and future engagements.
4. Determining a collaborative network of people including active participants and secondary participants.
4. Determining a structure of a network by identifying associated colleagues (e.g., employees) and non-employees (e.g., customers).
5. Linking related events by participants, theme (subject), time period, keywords, etc.
6. Preparing a template comprising a desired output format based on information. For example, text prompts describing elements to be completed in an application may be phrased as a question (e.g., do you have experience with making presentations to external clients) or as statements associated with a desired credential (e.g., briefly explain activities performed by a nominee to support a nomination in the area of a mentorship). Therefore, the text prompts are modeled as templates for a type of information to be extracted.
System 100 executes a deep natural language software application to examine evidence of activities from within a user's calendar, activity logs (e.g., software change management tool logs, PIM data repositories, etc.) and extract activity details in accordance with requirements expressed in a prompt/template. System 100 extracts desired information and populates the information into a job application, a certification application, etc. The information extracted is utilized with a specific orientation dependent on how it is associated with personal (user) participation in a project. For example, an email transmitted to a user comprises evidence for user contribution while an email transmitted from a customer may be used to locate bragging points. Therefore, contents of specific documents (i.e., a message or slide deck) are contextualized in terms of the role of the document author. Additionally, system 100 locates targeted information to highlight within artifacts created for a specific project. For example, only the relevant events/projects and attributes of projects presenting information relevant to the template being completed are selected.
System 100 executes an algorithm for creating a customized timeline with episode (project) boundaries. Each episode is populated with links to evidence sources describing key relations and key activities (e.g., activities of an entire project group and user generated activities) relevant to information requested in the template. The customized timeline is generated based on input data comprising a set of time-stamped artifacts generated during professional activities. For example, input data may include emails (with attachments), calendar invites with subjects/agendas/descriptions/attendees list (with attachments), personal activity logs and communities and associated documents, an email body, slide decks, etc. Each type of input data is associated with a dedicated information extraction process for an associated format (e.g., a custom information extraction from slide deck where slide titles comprise section headings associated with articles). For example, system 100 may include a plurality of libraries for performing a dedicated relation extraction process or a targeted information extraction process associated with relevant information in common areas. The relevant information may include as customer satisfaction data, project risks and challenges data, project personnel data, etc. The relevant information may be identified using a rough granularity (topic detection) or fine-grained (relation extraction) method.
System 100 enables a process for ranking relevant summary details retrieved from a calendar, an email, or a community invite event as follows:
1. Evidence streams are segmented into projects. Activities for each project are organized based on a temporal analysis
2. Key information for each project is identified by:
Attachments (such as a presentation slide deck attached to a calendar entry or additional multi-media files associated with an event) may be examined to determine a topic, a level of technical detail, an audience for a presentation, a time/date/place, a rhetorical mode of the information presented (e.g., whether it was a training, a sales pitch, an executive summary, etc.). For example, if a template requests mentoring activities, system 100 will rate an entry describing a topic of the mentoring and an associated role as having a high match score. Likewise, if the template requests evidence related to an applicant developing Python code, a template filling module may produce sentences describing a purpose and size of a coding effort. The aforementioned targeted information presentation may be created via, inter alia, a library of rule-based modules designed to locate and format particular classes of information (e.g., personal information vs. skills) or using statistical NLP along with entity analytics.
An implementation example associated with rating a match between extracted information and a template/form is described as follows:
If targeted information (as described, supra) comprises a pre-specified confidence threshold, the information is filed into an application automatically. If the information is located and organized as evidence for a user, the user completes the template/form.
An implementation example associated with interactive mode is described as follows:
A user provides examples or seeds for types of interactions/events sought. In addition to using textual prompts within an application to be completed, a user may provide inputs to guide system 100 to information for extraction. For example:
1. Locating examples associated with a user mentoring process with respect to inventors and associated patents
2. Locating examples associated with a user presentation or demoed software capabilities to external clients.
3. Locating examples associated with a user presentation of project summaries to executives.
4. Delivered tasks associated with a Java component using machine learning.
1. Locating user attributes describing user participation and contribution associated with the user.
2. Identifying roles/IDs of participants of the logical groups of related activities.
In step 210, logical group attributes associated with each logical group are identified based on the key information. In step 212, the user is evaluated by a computer processor executing a sentiment analysis with respect to the event data and communications of the user. The evaluation may include locating recognition points within documents associated with respective logical group/episode clusters.
In step 214, the logical groups of related activities are ranked based on results of the evaluation of step 212. Ranking the logical groups may include:
1. Performing a ranking process with respect to the logical groups of related activities in terms of relevance in response to a specified prompt from an application being completed. The specified prompt may include:
In step 216, the logical groups of related activities are presented to the user according to results of ranking of step 214. In step 218, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups of related activities is generated. In step 220, the activities are organized by a computer processor executing a temporal analysis algorithm.
1. February 2011-April 2011 comprises a conception phase.
2. April 2011-August 2011 comprises an elaboration phase.
3. September 2011-January 2012 comprises a contract & negotiations phase.
4. February 2012-July 2012 comprises a construction phase.
5. August 2012-February 2013 comprises a handover phase.
6. March 2013-August 2013 comprises a project closure phase.
Different individuals (company employees and external personal) may be involved at each of different phases 308 or 310. Individuals involved during a conception phase may not be available during a construction phase. For example, a subset of the same individuals may be engaged on a different activity simultaneously. Algorithm 300 illustrates the how system 100 (of
Aspects of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module,” or “system.”
The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computer program product. The computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.
The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that can retain and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of the computer readable storage medium includes the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such as punch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructions recorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. A computer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construed as being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulses passing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through a wire.
Computer readable program instructions described herein can be downloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computer readable storage medium or to an external computer or external storage device via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, a wide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprise copper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wireless transmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives computer readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer readable program instructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium within the respective computing/processing device.
Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations of the present invention may be assembler instructions, instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions, machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions, state-setting data, or either source code or object code written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, C++ or the like, and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages. The computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including, for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute the computer readable program instructions by utilizing state information of the computer readable program instructions to personalize the electronic circuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.
Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer readable program instructions.
These computer readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can direct a computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises an article of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects of the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computer implemented process, such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods, and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specified functions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
The computer system 90 illustrated in
Still yet, any of the components of the present invention could be created, integrated, hosted, maintained, deployed, managed, serviced, etc. by a service supplier who offers to enable a process for generating an engagement summary from event sources. Thus the present invention discloses a process for deploying, creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and/or integrating computing infrastructure, including integrating computer-readable code into the computer system 90, wherein the code in combination with the computer system 90 is capable of performing a method for enabling a process for generating an engagement summary from event sources. In another embodiment, the invention provides a business method that performs the process steps of the invention on a subscription, advertising, and/or fee basis. That is, a service supplier, such as a Solution Integrator, could offer to enable a process for generating an engagement summary from event sources. In this case, the service supplier can create, maintain, support, etc. a computer infrastructure that performs the process steps of the invention for one or more customers. In return, the service supplier can receive payment from the customer(s) under a subscription and/or fee agreement and/or the service supplier can receive payment from the sale of advertising content to one or more third parties.
While
While embodiments of the present invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, many modifications and changes will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to encompass all such modifications and changes as fall within the true spirit and scope of this invention.
This application is a continuation application claiming priority to Ser. No. 14/302,653 filed Jun. 12, 2014.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | 14302653 | Jun 2014 | US |
| Child | 15606107 | US |
