Patent ID: 7328249

Claim:
A status reporting system (SRS) for allowing an interested party to review project status information associated with at least one of assembly and testing of electronic equipment based on status information stored in a status system, the SRS being communicatively coupled to the status system and comprising: a monitoring device contacting the status system to determine whether such status system has new project status information associated with at least one of assembly and testing of electronic equipment stored therein and obtaining such new status information from the status system; an ID database, the status system tagging the status information stored therein with an ID identifying the interested party, the ID database including a record having the ID and a password for the interested party; a status data base including status data, the monitoring device referring to the status data in the status database in conjunction with determining whether the status system has new status information stored therein, wherein each piece of status information stored in the status system is tagged with a time stamp, wherein the status data in the status database includes a time indicative of a last contact review of the status system by the monitoring device, and wherein the monitoring device obtains from the status system only those pieces of information stored therein that have a time stamp later than the time of the last review as stored in the status database, and wherein the status database is updated with a time indicative of the present review; and a portal providing access to, an interested party to said obtained status information.