Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-26
2006-09-26
Champagne, Donald L. (Department: 3622)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
Reexamination Certificate
active
07113923
ABSTRACT:
A system for managing at least one program including a plurality of projects for at least one organizational unit includes at least one program office database which stores informational data associated with the accounts, projects, and programs; financial data associated with the accounts, projects, and programs; schedule and progress data associated with the accounts, projects, and programs; personnel data associated with persons having responsibility associated with the accounts, projects, and programs, the personnel data including a unique person identifier for each person; security data having an assignment of at least one role to each person and an assignment of at least one update authorization to certain persons having oversight responsibility; data associated with translating progress milestones defined in the projects to tactics defined in the system; and update data associated with the progress and actual expenditures of the accounts, projects, and programs. The system further includes at least one user interface operable to display and allow access to the data stored in the program office according to a predetermined security scheme based on the person identifier, role and update authorization assignment stored in the at least one program office database, and further operable to receive the update data on a periodic basis.
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Bradbury Bruce W.
Brichta Harriet E.
Eriken Iveoma C.
Littlefield, Jr. Floyd Phillip
Rodriguez Julio A.
Baker & Botts L.L.P.
Champagne Donald L.
Electronic Data Systems Corporation
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