Patent ID: 7716671

Claim:
A method comprising: designating a task associated with a respective action that is completed once for a plurality of individuals as being a shared task, where being said shared task is designated on a computer-generated template comprising a task list, and where said computer-generated template is configured so that each of said plurality of individuals is authorized to complete said shared task on behalf of all of said plurality of individuals; designating a task associated with a respective action that is completed separately by one individual of said plurality of individuals as being an individual task, where being said individual task is designated on said computer-generated template, and where said computer-generated template is configured so that said one individual is authorized to complete said individual task specific to said one individual; subsequent to completing said respective actions of said designated tasks, distributing a result of said designated tasks in parallel to a plurality of devices associated with said plurality of individuals; and updating said task list in parallel on said computer-generated template at each of said plurality of devices according to said distributed result to indicate that one or more of said designated tasks have been completed, where said respective action of said individual task is not viewable by others of said plurality of individuals.