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

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium which stores programmatic instructions that, when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to perform operations comprising:
access a user supplied graphic corresponding to a project and enable a corresponding graphic representation to be accessed as a web document;
enable a user to associate a coordinate position with a graphic boundary box that encloses a portion of the graphic representation;
provide user access to a standard comments data store and enabling a comment to be accessed from the standard comments data store;
record in compute readable memory at least a graphic comment data record;
link a same graphic comment data record to a plurality of graphic overlay representations;
enable the user to:
add a comment,
delete a comment, and
add an approval annotation;

enable a graphic thumbnail to be rendered;
selectively search and access a plurality of database records and return data records;
enable a plurality of users to collaborate, view, and markup the graphic representation via respective interfaces;
provide a function configured to enable differences between a first graphic file and a second graphic file to be identified;
communicate text and/or graphic comment data records for display in a worldwide web format;
transmitting automatic update notifications to specific users;
import forms; and
enable the user to add a symbol to a coordinate position associated with the graphic representation.