Patent ID: 8677319
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for making, tracking, and controlling revision control changes to a given software system, comprising the computer implemented steps of: forming a respective change request object to represent each user's respective request to make a respective revision control change to a given software system; creating a root issue object for each change request object, the root issue object enabling an issue hierarchy of issue objects, each issue object representing a respective issue; allowing a user to partition an issue object into issue sub-objects; allowing a user to create a task object to define work needed to address an issue; allowing a user to partition a task object into task sub-objects; allowing a user to create an activity object to track work performed; allowing a user to partition an activity object into activity sub-objects; allowing a user to relate issue objects and issue sub-objects to task objects and task sub-objects; allowing a user to relate task objects and task sub-objects to activity objects and activity sub-objects; and determining state of an object based on status of its related objects and sub-objects; wherein each task object, issue object and activity object is owned by a single respective user as an individual and has a respective status field that identifies state of the change request object from perspective of the individual respective user.