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  Methodology infrastructure and delivery vehicleUSPTO Application #: 20060294157Title: Methodology infrastructure and delivery vehicle Abstract: An infrastructure to develop, store, maintain and deliver methodology content to end users includes a database of metadata containing definitions of explicit and implicit relationships between methodology objects representative of published documents. The infrastructure includes an integrated suite of tools including a methodology development tool, multiple user interfaces including a methodology finder and a methodology browser, and an estimating tool that integrates the methodology content into the project planning process. (end of abstract) Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione - Chicago, IL, US Inventors: Richard C. Kumpitsch, Christopher M. Fisher, Hollis H. Moore, Edy S. Cosillo, Barry K. Law USPTO Applicaton #: 20060294157 - Class: 707201000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures, File Or Database Maintenance, Coherency (e.g., Same View To Multiple Users) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060294157. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present patent document is a divisional of application Ser. No. 10/367,618 filed Feb. 14, 2003, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully reinstated herein. COPYRIGHT NOTICE [0002] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. The following notice applies to the software and data as described below and in the drawings hereto: Copyright.COPYRGT. 2003, Accenture, All Rights Reserved. BACKGROUND [0003] 1. Technical Field [0004] The present invention relates generally to web publishing. The invention may find particular use in web publishing systems that involve highly integrated data containing a high volume of documents with numerous cross-referenced links between the documents. The present invention also relates to the generation of work planning documents. [0005] 2. Background Information [0006] A methodology is a collection of information that explains how to plan, mobilize and execute a certain type of work. In other words, a methodology is a specific way of performing a multi-stage operation that implies precise deliverables and/or outcomes at the end of each stage. Deliverables are measurable results or outputs of a process. Thus, a methodology defines types of work processes in terms of measurable results. A well-defined methodology generally defines a business organization's best practices for accomplishing a given task and incorporates that organization's terminology. In this way, employees are able to integrate these best practices into their day-to-day handling of tasks. In order to take full advantage of this wealth of knowledge, methodologies must be accessible to various levels of employees throughout the organization. Publishing methodologies on an organization's intranet or securely on the Internet makes the methodologies instantly accessible to potentially any authorized individual throughout the world. [0007] Four technical problems are generally encountered when defining and using a methodology across an organization. First, finding the appropriate content in a methodology using conventional browser interfaces is often difficult. Typically, methodologies are displayed in a manner that is generic and broadly-applicable, making it hard to locate the specific information that supports a given context. Second, traditional methods for accessing and displaying methodologies are inflexible. When information in the methodology needs updating, the process is often long and painful. Third, the data representative of highly integrated methodologies are difficult to maintain as a result of the high volume of explicit and implied relationships that exist among methodology data objects. Finally, it is often difficult to transform or share a methodology's content as an integral part of the project estimating and planning data and processes. The present invention solves these technical problems by providing a new paradigm for storing, maintaining, delivering and transforming the data representative of the methodology. BRIEF SUMMARY [0008] In one aspect, a method for providing multiple user-interface access to a methodology is provided. The method may include: a) publishing data describing a standardized set of tasks for the methodology in a methodology standards knowledge management repository; b) storing standardized project information for the methodology containing hypertext link definitions between the published data; c) providing a first browser interface for locating a relevant methodology, the first browser interface comprising a text-matching search engine input field, navigators, and an active window for selectively displaying search results or selected documents; d) providing a second browser interface for locating relevant documents containing methodology tasks, the second browser interface for browsing temporally within one methodology, the interface comprising a text-matching search engine input field, navigators, and an active window selectively for displaying search results, hierarchical topical results or selected documents; e) presenting selected documents, said selected documents containing links in accordance with said hypertext link definitions to associated published data describing other tasks, inputs and deliverables; f) downloading the standardized project information from the knowledge repository related to the selected document; and g) generating a project estimate based on a project scope, the project scope including project estimating parameters and selected tasks, the project estimate having displayable hypertext links to the in-scope selected tasks. [0009] In a second aspect, a system for developing, storing, maintaining and delivering methodology content to an end user is provided. The system may include a) a database for storing the methodology content and reflective of a metadata model containing definitions of explicit and implicit relationships between elements defined in the methodology content; b) a publishing tool for populating fields in presentation templates to create browser viewable documents of the methodology content having links between the documents in accordance with the explicit and implicit relationships; c) a first user interface for accessing multiple methodologies defined in the methodology content and for accessing additional related documents; d) a second user interface for displaying browser viewable documents of the methodology content of a single selected methodology; and e) an estimating tool for integrating the methodology content into a project estimate and work planning documents, the estimating tool generating hypertext links in the project estimate and work planning documents to the browser viewable documents of the methodology content. [0010] In a third aspect, a method for providing customized methodology content for use in a project repository is provided. The method may include: a) providing access to a plurality of deliverable files in a deliverables library; b) retrieving standardized project information including a list of deliverables; c) defining a project scope by selecting deliverables from the standardized project information; d) generating a data file containing references to the deliverables library for each selected deliverable; and e) providing an installation file executable to access the data file and to install the selected deliverables in the project repository. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0011] FIG. 1 is a diagram representative of the development architecture for a methodology infrastructure in accordance with the present invention; [0012] FIG. 2 is a representation of a metadata model for a relationship configuration file in accordance with the embodiment of FIG. 1; [0013] FIG. 3 is a representation of a metadata model for a hierarchical relationship definition in accordance with the embodiment of FIG. 1; [0014] FIG. 4 is representation of the primary key/foreign key relationships between tables in a relational database in accordance with the methodology infrastructure embodiment of FIG. 1; [0015] FIG. 5 is a diagram of the data flow of one embodiment of a methodology publishing environment in accordance with the present invention; [0016] FIG. 6 depicts a schematic of the end user environment for the methodology infrastructure and delivery vehicle in accordance with the present invention; [0017] FIGS. 7A and 7B, collectively FIG. 7, are a representative screen shot of a methodology browser user interface in accordance with the present invention; [0018] FIG. 8 is a diagram representative of the technical framework for the methodology finder user interface of FIG. 7; [0019] FIGS. 9A and 9B, collectively FIG. 9, are a representative screen shot of a methodology browser user interface in accordance with the present invention; Continue reading... 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