Patent ID: 6968360
Filing Date: 2005-11-22
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A status reporting system (SRS) for automatically reporting updated status of a project to an interested party based on status information stored in a status system, the SRS being communicatively coupled to the status system and comprising: a monitoring device contacting the status system to determine whether such status system has new status information stored therein and obtaining such new status information from the status system; and an internal mail device receiving the obtained status information, ascertaining from the received status information the interested party, locating an electronic mail address for the interested party, formatting the received status information into a piece of electronic mail which includes the received status information and the located electronic mail address, and forwarding the piece of electronic mail to the interested party by way of an electronic mail service, the SRS further comprising an ID database, the status system tagging the status information stored therein with an ID identifying the interested party, the ID database including a record having the ID and the electronic mail address for the interested party, and the internal mail device locating the electronic mail address for the interested party from the ID database based on the ID tagged to the received status information, the SRS further comprising a status database including status data, the monitoring device referring to the status data in the status database in conjunction with determining whether the status system has new status information stored therein, wherein each piece of status information stored in the status system is tagged with a time stamp, wherein the status data in the status database includes a time indicative of a last contact review of the status system by the monitoring device, and wherein the monitoring device obtains from the status system only those pieces of status information stored therein that have a time stamp later than the time of the last review as stored in the status database, and wherein the status database is updated with a time indicative of the present review.