Patents by Inventor Maeve Lucas

Maeve Lucas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9626649
    Abstract: A system is described for providing an interactive career management tool. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store job levels and career option descriptions associated with business function and job identifiers. Each job level may be associated with experience and expectation descriptions. The processor may receive a business function and job identifier and may retrieve the associated career option descriptions and job levels along with the experience and expectation descriptions associated with each job level. The processor may transform the job levels, experience descriptions, and expectation descriptions into a table. The processor may transform the career option descriptions into an interactive display which includes several shapes. Each career option may be displayed when the user selects a shape associated with the career option description. The processor may provide the table and the interactive display to a device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Maeve Lucas, Alexander Zorba, Kieron J. Champion, Nancy J. Cooper, Rohini S. Rajagopal, Shobha Belakerappa, Christina S. Wolf
  • Patent number: 8708704
    Abstract: A system is described for providing roadmaps for building proficiencies in skill areas. The system may include a memory, interface, and processor. The memory may store skill area and skill level identifiers, and associated job experience data items describing tasks of a user within the skill area and skill level, formal learning data items describing learning activities of a user within the skill area and skill level, and collaborative data items describing collaborative roles of a user within the skill area and skill level. The processor may receive the skill area and skill level identifiers. The processor may retrieve the job experience, formal learning and collaborative data items associated with the skill area and the skill level identifiers. The processor may transform the data items into a roadmap describing the job experience, formal learning and collaborative data items recommended to reach the skill level, and provide the roadmap to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Daniel R. Bielenberg, Maeve Lucas, Barbara J. Bartilson, Jasmine Cugini, Robert S. Gerard, Bryan McCart, Michael Gombar, William A. Jindrich, Samir A. Desai
  • Publication number: 20110055101
    Abstract: A system is described for providing an interactive career management tool. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store job levels and career option descriptions associated with business function and job identifiers. Each job level may be associated with experience and expectation descriptions. The processor may receive a business function and job identifier and may retrieve the associated career option descriptions and job levels along with the experience and expectation descriptions associated with each job level. The processor may transform the job levels, experience descriptions, and expectation descriptions into a table. The processor may transform the career option descriptions into an interactive display which includes several shapes. Each career option may be displayed when the user selects a shape associated with the career option description. The processor may provide the table and the interactive display to a device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Maeve Lucas, Alexander Zorba, Kieron J. Champion, Nancy J. Cooper, Rohini S. Rajagopal, Shobha Belakerappa, Christina S. Wolf
  • Publication number: 20110053126
    Abstract: A system is described for providing roadmaps for building proficiencies in skill areas. The system may include a memory, interface, and processor. The memory may store skill area and skill level identifiers, and associated job experience data items describing tasks of a user within the skill area and skill level, formal learning data items describing learning activities of a user within the skill area and skill level, and collaborative data items describing collaborative roles of a user within the skill area and skill level. The processor may receive the skill area and skill level identifiers. The processor may retrieve the job experience, formal learning and collaborative data items associated with the skill area and the skill level identifiers. The processor may transform the data items into a roadmap describing the job experience, formal learning and collaborative data items recommended to reach the skill level, and provide the roadmap to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel R. Bielenberg, Maeve Lucas, Barbara J. Bartilson, Jasmine Cugini, Robert S. Gerard, Bryan McCart, Michael Gombar, William A. Jindrich, Samir A. Desai