Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1998-03-09
2000-07-18
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705 1, 705 27, 705 35, 705 4, 705 36, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060920505
ABSTRACT:
A computer system and method for preparing financial estimates and for analyzing and using data in the management of projects, includes a graphical user interface (8) with two optional, graphical modes of operation. In one graphical mode of operation, the user directs the computer (10) to display a data map (31) in the form of a segmented pyramid. The segments (34, 35 et seq.) of the pyramid provide active areas or buttons, which when selected with the mouse input device (15), display an appropriate screen with the text or financial details for that segment of the estimating or management process. In an alternative graphical mode of operation, a series of objects in the form of process blocks (75, 78) are connected in a flow chart which proceeds from left to right along a path (73) that is displayed on the screen of the computer. The process blocks (75, 78) each have their own title bar (76) and sequence number (71) to assist the user in following a predetermined sequence in preparing a financial estimate. The user can activate either of these data maps by selecting an appropriate button (26, 28) provided in a button bar (25) incorporating specialized application icons (27, 28). After completing the input of data into the appropriate forms accessed through the screen displays, the user can output a finished report with the bid or proposal, with a schedule of work and other useful reports in managing projects.
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Lungren Grant P.
Marks R. Stanley
Hard Dollar Corporation
Morgan George D.
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
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