Patents of the day

Idiocy #1: Clustering phylogenetic variation patterns. Assignee: Microsoft Corporation.

Quote:

A method of generating biomolecular clustering patterns comprising [...] identifying evolutionary events in each of the identified plurality of positions at each node in the evolutionary tree.

Cool. At least, Microsoft is atheist.

Idiocy #2: Rapid knowledge transfer among workers. Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH, owned by Accenture Limited, a Fortune Global 500 company originally split from Arthur Andersen.

Quotes:

The system 100  is one exemplary embodiment of a knowledge transfer system for transferring knowledge from expert workers at a client location to apprentice workers at an outsourcing location. For example, the system may be useful for outsourcing a job function or other responsibility by a client to an outsourcing agency. In order to achieve business goals, the client engages the outsourcing agent to transition the job function from expert workers at a location of the client to apprentice workers at a location of the outsourcing agency. After the transition, the apprentice workers perform the job function on behalf of the client on an ongoing basis throughout the engagement.

And:

In one embodiment, the knowledge transfer plan 107  is created using an engagement setup application. This application includes one or more ASP.NET pages that access a SQL server database. The application creates a SharePoint site for use in conjunction with the SharePoint application available from Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. The application is initiated by a transition specialist who has knowledge of the information and tasks to be transferred, experts who currently own information and apprentices to whom knowledge is to be transferred. The transition specialist begins the process by providing to the application basic information about the engagement, such as a name of the engagement, a name of transition specialist, etc., in ASP.NET forms. The SQL database is updated and the engagement setup application launches a methodology wizard. This wizard includes a set of ASP.NET form driven pages that determine the methodology and the corresponding knowledge transfer plan wizard based on the transition specialist’s input. In addition, this wizard performs administrative tasks, such as creating users, defining vocabulary, etc., necessary to create SharePoint sites for use by the SharePoint application. Once all the data is gathered in the SQL database, a server-side ASP.NET application uses the data to create a SharePoint repository using the SharePoint object model.

We’re living in the perfect world.

This entry was posted on August 24th, 2009 and is filed under Miscellaneous. Tags: ue oligofrenilor.
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