Patent ID: 8478840

Claim:
A server computer for generating user-specific web pages for a plurality of users, the server computer comprising: a processor; a storage device coupled to the processor; a module configured to receive a user identifier from a client computer; a module configured to determine a supervisory role associated with the user identifier; a module configured to retrieve, from the storage device, based on the supervisory role, supervisor-specific data including at least one supervised user associated with the supervisory role and a plurality of items in possession of the supervised user; a module configured to generate a supervisory role web page having data fields comprising the supervisor-specific data; a module configured to retrieve, from the storage device, based on the received user identifier, a plurality of stored data source identifiers, wherein each of the retrieved plurality of data source identifiers corresponds to one of a plurality of items in possession of a user associated with the user identifier, is associated with the user identifier, and is associated with one of a set of user-specific data sources; at least one of the data sources being a relational database; and the data source identifier associated with the relational database having assigned a pre-defined database query; a module configured to access the user-specific data sources using the retrieved plurality of data source identifiers to obtain data values associated with the user identifier; and a module configured to generate a user-specific web page having user-specific data fields, the user-specific data fields comprising the data values obtained from the user-specific data sources, wherein the module configured to generate is further configured to: assign a link or an email address to an item assigned to the user, the assigned link or email address enabling the user to contact, using the user-specific web page, an entity associated with the item; and include the assigned link or email address within one of the user-specific data fields of the web page associated with the item.