Patent ID: 7233915
Filing Date: 2007-06-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic system for managing, processing and automating an electronic or digital activity, the system comprising: a common user interface that includes means for gathering and structuring data relating to activities into common database objects that are combinable to form a plurality of types of catalogs, lists, and workflows that are used to conduct electronic business; wherein said means for gathering and structuring data is included in a secondary interface; wherein said means for gathering and structuring data further uses a common data format; and wherein said common data format determines a design of the secondary interface and also an operating rule for creating, storing and processing data, in the form of database objects; wherein the common user interface enables the user to provide who/what information relating to the activity, why/how information relating to the activity, and where/when information relating to the activity, to be input to the system according to said common data format and the operating rule; and wherein said who/what, why/how and where/when information is input to the system through the secondary interface in a manner that conforms the common database objects to the said common data format and operating rule such that why information+how information=where/when information.