Appeal No. 2007-0384
Application No. 09/681,784
employee aspires to” and “providing the employee with a variety of learning
solutions (e.g., classroom training, software training, online training, on-the-
job training, etc.) for eliminating gaps between the employee’s current level
of functional competency and the level of functional competency required”
or aspired to (Specification 3-4).
The specification describes
a method for reducing a functional competency gap [that]
includes defining an employment function and preferred
method of learning, assessing functional competency based on
the employment function via an online self-assessment,
identifying at least one gap between the assessed functional
competency and a predefined competency required for the
employment function, and identifying at least one learning
solution for reducing the at least one competency gap based on
the preferred method of learning.
(Id. at 4.)
The specification also describes generating “an online employee
development plan . . . based on the outcome of the competency gap analysis”
(id. at 7). The specification states that the “online employee development
plan comprises . . . , for each competency gap, at least one link to a learning
solution that has been preselected as best-in-class content for educating the
employee in a manner that tends to reduce or eliminate the corresponding
competency gap” (id.). The specification also states that, to “automatically
locate the most appropriate learning solution(s) to include within the
employee’s online development plan, a dynamic search engine queries a
database of all available learning solutions” (id.).
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