William R Kittel

US Patent:

8103948, Jan 24, 2012

Filed:

Aug 14, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/838374

Inventors:

Gregory F. Cox - Friendswood TX, US
Joseph I. Greenbaum - Ballston Lake NY, US
Scott D. Hicks - Underhill Center VT, US
William R. Kittel - Warwick NY, US
James A. Martin, Jr. - Endicott NY, US
Steven Nigro - Las Vegas NV, US
James T. Swantek - Canton GA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715200, 715229, 715255, 717101, 705 717, 705 713, 707784, 707733

Abstract:

A method and system for displaying and reporting project completion information of a large-scale project having a number of individual subprojects. A rollup agent is employed for acquiring project completion information from a number of subproject databases to provide overall project-wide display and reporting capabilities. The rollup agent collects and organizes the information, and stores it on a rollup database. The rollup agent also interacts with a user to select aspects of any subprojects to report or display. The rollup agent then creates and stores reports of the selected information, or displays the report interactively as a pop-up summary report or a spreadsheet format report to a user. A number of scheduled agents provide scheduled reporting at the subproject level. A number of on demand agents provides the interactive database view, pop-up reporting and spreadsheet reporting for each of the individual subprojects.

US Patent:

20060048050, Mar 2, 2006

Filed:

Sep 2, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/933642

Inventors:

Gregory Cox - Friendswood TX, US
Joseph Greenbaum - Ballston Lake NY, US
Scott Hicks - Underhill Center VT, US
William Kittel - Warwick NY, US
James Martin - Endicott NY, US
Steven Nigro - Las Vegas NV, US
Thomas Sveda - Winston-Salem NC, US
James Swantek - Canton GA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/24

US Classification:

715513000, 715530000

Abstract:

A method and system for displaying and reporting project completion information of a large-scale project having a number of individual subprojects. A rollup agent is employed for acquiring project completion information from a number of subproject databases to provide overall project-wide display and reporting capabilities. The rollup agent collects and organizes the information, and stores it on a rollup database. The rollup agent also interacts with a user to select aspects of any subprojects to report or display. The rollup agent then creates and stores reports of the selected information, or displays the report interactively as a pop-up summary report or a spreadsheet format report to a user. A number of scheduled agents provide scheduled reporting at the subproject level. A number of on demand agents provides the interactive database view, pop-up reporting and spreadsheet reporting for each of the individual subprojects.