Joby Thomas O'Brien

US Patent:

8296170, Oct 23, 2012

Filed:

Sep 20, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/886270

Inventors:

Jay O'Brien - Vista CA, US
Joby O'Brien - Vista CA, US

Assignee:

BP Logix - Vista CA

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705 712, 705 727

Abstract:

A business process or project management system provides for creation of a project or process definition which includes all activities required to complete the process as well as any dependencies, conditions, and deadlines for each activity, and participants designated to carry out the activities. Once the process is started, activities are carried out in turn when the dependencies and conditions are met, and the system updates when any activities are complete so that any activities dependent on completed activities can be started. A reporting module creates status reports for each activity which are displayed to a user such as an administrator on a user interface. Stored information on previous instances of an activity are used to predict when an activity is likely to be late and to provide alerts to users prior to starting the activity.