1657 results about "Project management" patented technology

A document management system includes means for receiving a document through a network and converting the document to a format that is compatible with an online electronic filing system. In one embodiment, the format is compliant with the Security Exchange Commission's EDGAR database system. The system can split the document into a plurality of sub-documents that can be assigned to different editors. Thus, the editors can work in parallel with one another to prepare the document for filing. After the editors have made revisions, if any, to their respective sub-documents, the system merges the sub-documents into a single EDGAR-compliant document for submission to the EDGAR system.

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for defining calendar events for users of electronic calendaring systems and using those calendar events to customize information pertaining to the user. A multi-level hierarchy of calendar events is defined, where a top level of the hierarchy is used for context events which have a relatively long duration and a lower level of the hierarchy is used for specific events which occur during context events. The calendar user may specify attribute values for attributes of context events and/or specific events, such as how the user can be reached when that event is active; whether, and how often, the user checks his e-mail or voice mail when that event is active; etc. Attribute values are hierarchically coalesced, with specific event attribute value taking precedence over the values of corresponding context attributes. Overrides may be provided for the context and specific event values as well, enabling a user to fine-tune his preferences. Use of the present invention enables other persons trying to contact a calendar owner to be informed of the calendar owner's status for the applicable date and time, as well as information such as when the calendar owner will next be available or how he can be reached in the interim, without requiring the calendar owner to manually change configuration settings of his e-mail or greetings of his voice mail, etc. The techniques disclosed herein are also applicable to other scenarios such as instant messaging and project management.

A system and method for providing project management tools to support construction, renovations, maintenance and other projects. The system automates the creation, processing and approval cycles of the numerous documents involved with each project. The system provides standardized work processes through processing templates. The system provides automated control and management of the process. The system allows project initiation and funding approval by clients throughout the corporation via a desktop browser coupled to a corporate Intranet. A software application embodying the present invention and its underlying technology are appropriate for a paper intensive area. It reduces the approval cycle of projects. It automates the creation, processing and approval cycle of documents by routing documents electronically for on-line approval.

A projected management server coupled with a computer network, such as the Internet. A spec server may also be incorporated into the project management environment for completing specs, generating requests for price quotations, purchase orders and the like. A project tree represents project management objects, which can be of any type. Object types are defined for each particular implementation of the system. Typical examples of project management object types include organizational entities, work-groups, people, projects, budgets, tasks, costs, timesheets, specs, requisitions, purchase orders, and to-do lists. The objects are generally organized in a hierarchical data structure referred to as a project management tree or project tree. Each object in a project tree comprises a number of methods that describe the way the object behaves. Such methods include, for example, methods that describe the way the object is added to the tree, edited, deleted from the tree, and archived.

A system and method for collecting and correlating information about development of a computer software, including software tools reports. The system and method provides overview of entire software development lifecycle, provides decision support engine for project management, allows estimation of project timelines based upon empirical data, allows evaluation of project quality based upon empirical data, and correlates information from previous projects to estimate progress of current project (confidence factors). The system and method for collecting and correlating information about development of a computer software include collecting data from a plurality of software tools during each point in lifecycle of the computer software; storing the collected data in a database; and correlating the stored collected data to monitor the development of the computer software.

A computer implemented system and method and a computer readable medium for complying with the requirements of a quality standard known as ISO 9000. The areas covered include controlled documentation, training management, meetings and reports, process improvement requests, project management, and audit management. All controlled documents have a security and revision control portion that controls the access and approval capabilities of the documents. The system is form controlled. Certain individual fields of the forms require the entry of data, and field's control are controlled by certain fields of other forms, with the fields being updated by other fields in the system, operator entry of data, and a combination of control by both the system and operator entry. The system includes an ISO matrix relating each document to an ISO clause. The system has a controlling document for each delineated activity, and all other documents relating to such activity are linked as a child of the controlling document. An audit trail is created by storing and making available previous iterations of current documents as child documents, insuring that the first issue, subsequent changes to content, movement to draft status, reprieval, and reissue are available for auditing the activities of the business.

A project-work administrative management method includes receiving, from a buyer, project-administration configurations, storing transactional project work data relating to project work to be performed for the buyer by a supplier, receiving, from the buyer, configuration of project statement-of-work (SOW) records, processing a project change in plan/scope record set of the buyer, processing a project change in plan/scope record set of the supplier, and creating an integrated project change in plan/scope record set using the record set of the buyer and the record set of the supplier.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) for use in project management is described. The GUI comprises: an interface module arranged to receive low-level user information relating to project events and high-level information relating to at least one project overview attribute; and a page generation module arranged to generate on a single hierarchical display page of the GUI: a structured detailed view portion for displaying editable project details within a data compilation with the low-level event-related user information represented as graphical components within the data compilation; and a management overview portion for displaying an editable project overview with the high-level information provided therein.

A mobile application development platform comprises a toolset configured to streamline the development process for mobile applications. The streamline development process can enable efficiencies for the development of applications such as video streaming and uploading as well as image delivery and uploading. The development platform provides multi-language support. The development platform also provides project management integration. The development platform also provides deployment technology for distributing content across multiple mobile device platforms.

A project management display method and system in which a user logs on to a server from a client computer over a network to display a graphical interface associated with a project. The graphical interface allows the user to view, edit and navigate project data. The graphical interface includes a graphical object that looks similar to a radar screen. The radar screen further includes one or more design objects that provide to the user indicators to those objects that are most important. The indicators change color or position to indicate to the user the urgency associated with a project or task. The graphical interface provides the user the ability to edit project data and have those edits reflected through the graphical interface. The graphical interface also provides the user the ability to navigate through the displayed project and the radar screen view is update accordingly.

A technique is provided for generating a hierarchy used in managing a development project by generating schedule data for a task and generating reference data for the task, wherein the reference data references tasks at other levels of a hierarchy that represents relationships among tasks for completing the project. Another technique is provided for managing a development project schedule by determining whether an update to schedule data associated with a particular task requires an update to other tasks hierarchically related to the particular task, by following references from the particular task to a parent task and from the parent task to its child tasks. Schedule data of the child tasks, for example, actual start and end dates, are compared to determine whether the parent schedule needs to be changed.

A method and apparatus for allowing for the exchange of tasks, over an instant messenger (“IM”) infrastructure, are disclosed. An IM application, running on an electronic device, may allow creation, assigning, tracking, viewing, exporting, importing and managing tasks. IM applications may include, but not be limited to, stand-alone applications, browser plug-ins, on-screen widgets and gadgets, PDA and cellular phone modules, server-sided applications rendered on a client machine, etc. Personal Information Management (“PIM”) applications may use IM infrastructures to exchange of tasks or task information. Project management applications (“PMA”) may be used to define projects, containing tasks with complex sets of rules and inter-dependencies, and leverage IM networks for disseminating these projects and tasks among users. Tasks exchanged on an IM network may be imported into PMAs and PIMs. Tasks may be exchanged in a peer-to-peer IM network, which may span multiple IM service providers. Tasks may be transported in XML data structures which may contain data pertaining to users for whom tasks are intended, the progress made on tasks, documents attached to tasks, etc. User roles and privileges may be defined within tasks structures such that some users are the assignees of a task, while other users may only view task progress and be notified of milestones as tasks are worked on. Users may create task groups and communities, allowing them to control who may assign tasks to members of the group.

A system for managing wish list items from a plurality of online merchants is provided. The system includes a memory, processor and item management module executed by the processor. The memory stores data regarding the wish list items that have been selected by a user while browsing online merchant websites. The item management module has a receive-advice feature that sends an electronic message to user-selected contacts. The electronic message contains a request for feedback on one or more selected items of interest. When the contacts submit feedbacks, they are stored in the memory for viewing by the user.

A method for project management that can be used to achieve a more accurate project schedule at the beginning of, and during the life of a project. The method can be built into a software product, or used manually.

The method uses data collection, modeling, analysis, reporting and visualization to reduce the impact of risk in project scheduling and thereby improve the project's chances of a successful outcome (e.g. as measured by stronger adherence to: budget, deadline, quality and specifications).

The method introduces time estimation error, distraction rate and schedule confidence into the project schedule and provides for visualization of the schedule in the form of Gantt charts in difference views organization by component, by team member and by project.

A method for providing closed-loop analysis of a business process includes using modeling objects to extend a modeling language to obtain a representation language. The representation language is used to obtain at least one model of the process. The model is implemented using at least one of simulation, project management analysis, workflow analysis and computer-aided software engineering. The method allows a variety of COTS products to be integrated into a single tool for process modeling and closed-loop analysis of business processes.

The invention provides computer systems, computer data stores and methods and software for accessing and utilizing data stores. More particularly, the present invention provides systems, methods and software for creating or maintaining local or distributed mapping and optional transparent persistence of data objects, objects for stored procedures, complex data objects, data object graphs and associated data stores. The present invention further provides a computer system and software implemented method for a development mapping workspace for improved project management of mapping and persistence development activities along with a system implemented organization of mapping projects. In another aspect, the invention provides a computer system and software implemented methods for automatically mapping objects to one or more data source with an interface for setting variable stringency for such automatic mapping with an optional interface for editing the resulting system generated mapping, which system and software implemented methods may be collectively referred to as a “magic mapper” system. Further, such systems and software implemented methods are optionally integrated with IDEs, case tools and other third party platform or development environments to provide an extension of functionality or alternative functionality to such IDEs, third party platforms and other development environments, and to optionally provide for improved automatic or semi-automatic logic code generation.

The present disclosure provides for affording supply chain/workflow services in a contract manufacturing framework. First, a database including a plurality of service provider data structures is provided, wherein each service provider data structure includes a description of a particular service provider, and wherein the database further includes a request for proposal mechanism. Next, a particular service provider data structure is identified based on a request for proposal from a user utilizing the request for proposal mechanism. Finally, project management services are afforded to the user based on the request for proposal and the identified service provider data structure.

The invention provides a test platform server applied to cloud storage, which comprises an automatic project management module, a cross-platform automatic deployment module, an unattended automatic operating module, a test result statistical report output module, other test platform integrated module and a Web Graphical User Interface (Web GUI) interactive interface module, wherein the automatic project management module is used for storing automatic test specifications suitable for cloud storage, and the automatic test specifications comprise organization modes and specifications of cases, scripts and data of automatic test projects; the cross-platform automatic deployment module is used for implementing automatic deployment of a test environment under a cross-platform environment; the unattended automatic operating module is used for implementing unattended automatic test operation; the test result statistical report output module is used for providing automatic test result statistical analysis and log query; the other test platform integrated module is used for providing an integrated interface interacted with other test platforms; and the Web GUI interactive interface module is used for providing a graphical interface for accessing, configuring and managing the above five modules. The invention also provides a test platform service system applied to the cloud storage.

A process manager supports the interactive definition of multiple user groups having access to process application software, and for each group, the interactive definition of a respective group interface which is unique to the group. Preferably, the group interface is a project tracking notepad which lists tasks applicable to the group, and functions as both a selection menu and a status indicator or reminder of actions to be performed or which have been performed. The project tracking notepad is an alternative user interface, which exists in addition to any other user interfaces available. Preferably, an administrator defines, for each group, the task selections applicable to the group, and the task description which will display on project tracking notepad. Thus it is possible to describe the same task with different descriptive words or phrases when the task selection is displayed in the notepads of different groups. Each task selection displayed in a project tracking notepad contains a respective status indicator, which is preferably a colored light. The process management function described herein provides diverse groups of users with easy-to-understand project menus which are specific to the group, do not include superfluous task selections, and use descriptive terminology meaningful to the group. Furthermore, such project menus are easily customizable and editable by a process administrator or similar user.

A method and system for buying and selling services online includes a process for custom services, a commodity process and a collaborative workspace on a website. The process for custom services includes the posting by a buyer of specific criteria for a desired service, the bidding by a seller to preform the service, and the selection of a seller by the buyer. The commodity process includes the posting by a seller of a service offering, the posting by the buyer of requirements for the purchase of the service offering, and the purchase of a service offering by the buyer. The commodity process may also include an optimization process that provides the buyer with an optimized list of service offerings. The collaborative workspace includes communication tools, a file structure, workbenches and project management tools used by the buyer and seller for facilitating the setup, development and release of one or more services.