Patent Document ID: 8996982
Application ID: 11616571

Base Claim:
1. A requirements planning management method comprising: identifying in a requirements planning system executing in memory of a host computing platform, each approving stakeholder for a version of a requirement in a requirements plan of requirements for a software system; creating traceability links between each approving stakeholder and the version of the requirement, each traceability link connecting a stakeholder with a specific version of the requirement requiring the approval of the stakeholder and tracking different approval status values for different versions of a corresponding requirement; notifying each approving stakeholder having the traceability link to the version of the requirement whenever a new version of the requirement is proposed by the stakeholder; merging all versions of the requirement into a single document for displaying the single document to a viewing approving stakeholder; and marking up the single document to reflect differences between the single document and a most recent version of the requirement approved by the viewing approving stakeholder.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the marked up single document to the viewing approving stakeholder.