Reminder system
AssigneeDocsof, LLC
InventorBruce Karlson
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Abstract
A reminder system is provided. The system provides a user-friendly interface to a user's existing email, and in some embodiments to the user's document management, calendar and other systems, in order to ensure that an appropriate user is notified when action should be taken, and also provides notation to the user indicating the appropriate course of action to be taken. The system provides a calendaring feature where a supervisor or manager can determine the workload of a group of workers for an upcoming time period. The system provides an easily accessible and traceable database of information pertaining to a project checklist, document, a client name, a client matter number, a document type, or other customizable fields in order for a user to search and sort the information for their own use.
Claims20
A workload tracking system comprising:
- a computer program that includes a connection with a calendar system;
- and
- a central database for storing project information pertaining to a plurality of projects, said project information including status of one or more actions associated with one or more project,
- wherein a plurality of different system users are connected with said calendar system,
- wherein one or more actions relating to certain of said projects are assignable to one or more of said system users, such an assignment correlating with an update to said calendar system, and
- wherein said computer program updates said status in said database upon receipt of appropriate input from any system user assigned to an action, such status update correlating with an update to said calendar system.
A workload tracking system comprising a computer program that accesses:
- a calendar system;
- and
- a database for storing project information pertaining to a plurality of projects, said project information including one or more actions to be taken at certain times,
- wherein a plurality of different system users are connected with said calendar system,
- wherein one or more actions relating to certain of said projects are assignable to one or more of said system users, such an assignment correlating with an update to said calendar system, and
- wherein said project information further includes status of said one or more actions, said status being updatable by the computer program upon receipt of appropriate input from any system user assigned to an action, such status update correlating with an update to said calendar system.
A method of managing a project comprising the steps of:
- storing project information regarding projects in association with a calendar system computer program, wherein said information includes information for actions to be taken at certain times, and wherein said project information includes status of said actions;
- generating calendar events by said calendar system associated with certain of a plurality of different system users so as to indicate the times the actions are to be taken;
- and
- updating by the computer program the status of an action upon receipt of appropriate input from any system user for which a reminder message is generated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.