Patent ID: 7305392
Filing Date: 2007-12-04
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for cooperative, full life-cycle management of one or more data entities related to public projects across a plurality of organizations and comprising: (a) a database storing data relating to data entities and entered by personnel of a plurality of unrelated subscriber organizations including government agencies and corporate entities subscribed to said system, said data including shared data accessible by personnel of all said organizations, private data accessible by selected personnel of selected ones of said organizations, and some data accessible by the general public; (b) a plurality of data processing applications capable of accessing selected data within said database and having collective capabilities to manage data entities over full life-cycles thereof using said selected data; (c) a security structure interacting with said database and said applications to control access of users to data within said database and to said applications; (d) said security structure including: (e) an Internet user interface communicating with said security structure to provide controlled user access by said unrelated organizations to data within said database and said applications over a universal computer network and access to some data within said database over said network by the general public.