Patent ID: 6049776
Filing Date: 2000-04-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method implemented on a programmed computer system for identifying candidate human resources to be assigned to a project, said project requiring predetermined skills and predetermined time availability, comprising:maintaining, in said computer system, a system database storing system skills data identifying skills possessed by potential candidate human resources and system calendar data of scheduled activities of potential candidate human resources,searching said system skills and said system calendar data for human resources possessing said predetermined skills and said predetermined time availability, so as to identify said candidate human resources,generating assignments to said project of said candidate human resources identified in said searching step,adding data of said assignments to said system calendar data, andgenerating a calendar display from said system calendar data for an individual human resource with days of said calendar display highlighted in accordance with project assignments of said individual human resource, including an assignment added to said system calendar data in said adding step,thereby automatically determining human resources with appropriate skills and time availability for assignment to projects and automatically generating said calendar display providing an overview of said highlighted days during which said individual human resource is assigned to said projects.