Patent ID: 7509334

Claim:
A computer-based method of summarizing the status of a plurality of telecommunications service initiation orders, the method comprising: compiling a first data set that includes a plurality of telecommunications service initiation order records that correspond to respective ones of the plurality of telecommunications service initiation orders; generating a second data set that comprises at least part of the first data set and one or more labels that have been appended to at least some of the plurality of telecommunications service initiation order records; and automatically generating a summary of the status of the plurality of telecommunications service initiation orders from the second data set; wherein automatically generating a summary of the status of the plurality of telecommunications service initiation orders from the second data set comprises: importing the second data set into a spreadsheet application; and automatically generating within the spreadsheet application the summary of the status of the plurality of telecommunications service initiation orders based on at least some of the data from the second data set.