Patent ID: 8117653

Claim:
A system for processing and controlling electronic project incentive data for a plurality of commercial-based projects, the system comprising: a computer-based circuit having a plurality of modules including an administrator processor programmed to administratively control the storing and processing of data including project manager authentication data for each project, in response to user inputs from an authenticated administrator; an authentication processor programmed to authenticate project manager users accessing the system in accordance with a predefined project manager authorization level for a particular project having different predefined project manager authorization levels, each authentication level specifying a degree of authorization to selectively provide access for inputting and controlling project identification data, incentive data and client authentication data; a project manager processor that is programmed, for an authenticated project manager and a particular project for which the project manager is authenticated, to control the input and processing of project identification data, incentive data and client authentication data; a client processor that is programmed, for each project, to authenticate remote clients to control authenticated client access to electronic project data including incentive-related data for each project; and an incentives processor programmed to, for each project, in response to incentive data received from a project manager, generate achievement data characterizing a degree of achievement of an incentive associated with the incentive data, and process the generated achievement data with the project identification data to automatically configure and update incentive-related data fields, thereby providing, via the data fields, updated incentive-related data to authenticated clients accessing the system.