Patent ID: 7113915

Claim:
A system for creating a schedule for executing a project of jobs and for monitoring compliance with said schedule, wherein completion of some of said jobs depends on completion of other ones of said jobs, said system comprising: a camera means for recording an image of a site of said jobs; said camera means arranged for including in said image, n time stamp denoting a time when said image is recorded; a computer means including a keyboard communicable with said camera means programmed for displaying said image on a screen of said computer means including said time stamp in a format and for displaying on said screen a total list of said jobs from said keyboard, each job denoted by an alpha-numeric character on said list; said computer means programmed for receiving from said keyboard and displaying on said screen a series of lists of jobs, a first one of said lists including only those jobs from said total list of said jobs that are performable without any other jobs being performed beforehand and each job of said following lists of said jobs requiring performance of only those jobs that are contained in earlier ones of said lists; said computer means programmed for receiving from said key board and displaying on said screen an estimated expense required to execute each job wherein said estimated expense is expressed as at least any one of an estimated period of time and an estimated number of man-days required to execute said each job; said computer means programmed for generating and displaying a list of estimated start times, each estimated start time being an estimated start time for a respective job, each estimated start time being an estimated finish time of any jobs that must be finished before starting said respective job; said computer means programmed for generating and displaying a list of estimated finish times, one finish time for each one job.