Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1997-12-09
1999-10-05
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705 10, 705 7, G06F 1500, G06F 1100, G06F 1730
Patent
active
059639148
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for automatically collecting and for analyzing information about time and work performed on a computer network which includes the following elements: a data collector for monitoring certain portions of a user's computer network activity and for logging into a log file those certain portions of a user's computer network activity; a data analyzer for determining by following user-defined rules showing which portions of those certain portions of a user's computer network activity constitutes continuous work activities, and how this work should be categorized by project and task with project; and an external interface for building the rules defining work. The data collector includes a resident module, such as a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) module, which extends the file system of the computer so that detailed records are kept of file activities. The data collector also routes information about file and keyboard activity, and tabulates and writes such information to a user's disk periodically.
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Lehman Michael G.
Skinner Gary R.
Kanof Pedro R.
King Patrick T.
MacDonald Allen R.
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