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

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
accessing a user supplied graphic corresponding to a project and enabling a corresponding graphic representation to be accessed as a web document;
enabling a user to associate a coordinate position with a graphic boundary box that encloses a portion of the graphic representation;
providing user access to a standard comments data store and enabling a comment to be accessed from the standard comments data store;
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:
add a comment, and
delete a comment;

enabling a graphic thumbnail to be rendered;
selectively searching and accessing a plurality of data records and returning data 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;
communicating text and/or graphic comment data records for display in a worldwide web format;
transmitting automatic update notifications to specific users;
importing forms; and
enabling the user to add a symbol to a coordinate position associated with the graphic representation.