Patent ID: 8346627
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for approving item requests, comprising: a memory; and a processor being configured to: receive an item request for an item from a requestor; dynamically generate an approval list for the item request based on application of a set of rules to the item, the set of rules including item-based rules and safety-based rules, the approval list being a hierarchy of approvers that includes all approvers, including all supervisors, financial personnel and safety personnel, from which approval must be obtained; automatically determine an approver and any subsequent approver from the hierarchy based on an item in an item request, the subsequent approver being someone from whom approval must be obtained subsequent to approval being obtained from the approver; log the approver into an application used to make item requests; display by the application a view containing a set of item requests to the approver containing all item requests from all requestors for which approval is requested from the approver, the set of item requests including a plurality of item requests from a plurality of requesters; receive an approval determination for at least one of the set of item requests from the approver, wherein the receiving is adapted to receive a plurality of approval determinations from the approver simultaneously; update an approver list corresponding to the at least one of the set of item requests based on the approval determination, in case that the hierarchy contains any subsequent approver and the approval determination by the approver is that of the at least one of the set of item requests being approved, automatically forward an approval message to the subsequent approver in the approver list after the updating step.