Patent ID: 8290805
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A processor-based method of detecting completion of a planning phase of a project, the method comprising the steps of: a. manually creating requests on a plurality of hierarchical levels, including highest, lower, and lowest hierarchical levels, including, b. manually creating on at least some of the highest, lower, and lowest hierarchical levels one or more jobs necessary to realize the requests, c. manually assigning a status of Planned to a given request of the created requests when all requests and jobs at a next-lower hierarchical level of the plurality of hierarchical levels necessary to realize the given request have been created, d. manually assigning a status of All Planned to a given job of the created jobs after determining that a plan of the given job is fully developed, e. on the processor, automatically changing the status of a given one of the terminal requests from Planned to All Planned after determining that all jobs of the given one of the terminal requests have a status of All Planned, f. on the processor, automatically changing the status of a given one of the sub-requests at a given one of the lower hierarchical levels from Planned to All Planned after determining that all requests and jobs on all hierarchical levels linked below the given one of the lower hierarchical levels have a status of All Planned, thereby automatically propagating the status of All Planned up the plurality of hierarchical levels, g. on the processor, automatically changing the status of the initial request from Planned to All Planned after determining that all requests and jobs on all hierarchical levels linked below the highest hierarchical level have a status of All Planned, h. on the processor, automatically changing the status of the initial request from All Planned to Project All Planned, and i. on the processor, automatically propagating the status of Project All Planned down through all the plurality of hierarchical levels when the initial request has a status of Project All Planned.