Patent ID: 11868703
Assignee: E-PLAN, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a computer processor;
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium which stores programmatic instructions that, when executed by the computer processor cause the system to perform operations comprising:
accessing a user supplied graphic corresponding to a project and enabling a corresponding graphic representation to be accessed as a web document;
providing user access to a standard comments data store and enabling a comment to be accessed from the standard comments data store;
enabling a user to associate a coordinate position with a graphic boundary box that encloses a portion of the graphic representation;
recording in computer readable memory at least a graphic comment data record;
linking a same graphic comment data record to a plurality of graphic overlay representations;
enabling the user to:
make a comment correction,
add a comment, and
delete a comment;

enabling a graphic thumbnail to be rendered;
selectively searching and accessing a plurality of database records and return database records;
enabling a plurality of users to collaborate, view, and markup the graphic representation via respective interfaces;
providing a function configured to enable differences between a first graphic file and a second graphic file to be identified; and
communicating text and/or graphic comment data records for display in a worldwide web format,
wherein the programmatic instructions when executed by the computer processor cause the system to transmit automatic update notifications to specific users and cause the system to import forms and enable the user to add a symbol to a coordinate position associated with the graphic representation.