Patent ID: 9406039
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a collaborative construction project plan using a collaborative planning system, the method comprising: establishing a milestone or completion event for a construction project plan; assembling the construction project plan by: displaying the construction project plan in such a way that the activities are illustrated to show the order of dependency between activities; generating, on a graphics display, a visualization of a critical path for the construction project plan; identifying, on the graphics display, critical activities associated with the critical path by highlighting the critical path activities with a visual indication, in the visualization, that shows a path of necessary activities in the construction project plan; receiving first user input to the visualization indicating a modification to an activity; in response to the receiving the first input, calculating time data of the construction project plan; interactively and in response to the first input, updating the visualization to displaying the calculated time data of the construction project plan on the graphics display to show changes in the critical path such that further user input continues to interactively update the visualization; displaying, on the graphics display, an interactive two-dimensional floor plan view, the interactive two-dimensional floor plan view displaying an interactive building map that includes activities as located in a building space; receiving second user input indicating a user preference for three-dimensional view; and in response to receiving the second input, switching, on the graphics display, the interactive two-dimensional floor plan view into a three-dimensional floor plan view.