Patent ID: 7516142
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of managing research grants, said method comprising the steps of: a) capturing a grant description into a database, wherein the grant description describes project requirements for a project that is to be funded by an available grant; b) entering data items into a database, wherein the data items include descriptors of: c) text mining said at least one grant description to identify a match between said grant description and said data items, wherein the match is derived by an unstructured information management (UIM) application being applied to the grant description and the data items in the database, and wherein the UIM application identifies and matches the project requirements to an enterprise research capacity that is described by the data items in the database; d) determining a financial gain that will result from the enterprise undertaking the project that is to be funded by the available grant; e) tabulating said match and said financial gain; and f) delivering tabulated matches and gains to an institutional review board (IRB) for use by the enterprise in preparing a grant proposal that matches the grant.