Patent ID: 6678698
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for communicating project information stored in a storage means among a plurality of project participants, which plurality of project participants form a full set of project participants, comprising:identifying each of the plurality of project participants forming the full set of project participants; identifying at least one project participant selected from the full set of project participants to form a project participant subset; providing an interface to each of the project participants forming the full set of project participants; configuring the interface provided to each project participant forming the full set of project participants to identify at least one non-exclusive project element, wherein each identified non-exclusive project element has associated therewith at least one item of project data; linking each non-exclusive project element identified by the interface to each associated item of project data stored in the storage means; downloading from the storage means, upon selection of a given non-exclusive project element identified by the interface, at least one item of project data associated with the given non-exclusive project element; configuring the interface provided to each project participant forming the project participant subset to identify at least one exclusive project element which is not identified to a project participant not selected to form the project participant subset, wherein each identified exclusive project element has associated therewith at least one item of project data; linking each exclusive project element identified by the interface to each associated item of project data stored in the storage means; and downloading from the storage means, upon selection of a given exclusive project element identified by the interface, at least one item of project data associated with the given exclusive project element.