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Management of tasks required of trade subcontractors in the construction industry

  • US 20050222942A1
  • Filed: 03/31/2005
  • Published: 10/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for managing tasks required of a trade subcontractor in the construction industry, the trade contractor having a plurality of users, the system comprising:

  • means for furnishing a plurality of bids for a job to a plurality of contractors;

    means for, upon acceptance of one of the plurality of bids by one of the contractors, converting the accepted bid to a job;

    means for generating the tasks in response to the conversion of the accepted bid into the job;

    means for associating each of the tasks with one of the users on the basis of the user'"'"'s identity and job capacity;

    means for maintaining a plurality of counters for each of the users of the tasks associated therewith in respective task categories;

    means for displaying to each of the users when logged on the counters maintained therefor, in association with respective controls for the respective task categories;

    means for displaying to each of the users when logged on the total number of tasks in the respective task categories, in association with the respective controls for each of the task categories;

    means for furnishing a list to the logged on user of the tasks associated therewith in one of the task categories, in response to selection of the control therefor;

    means for providing a capability to the logged on user to act upon the list furnished thereto in the list furnishing step; and

    means for adjusting the counter for the logged on user upon action thereby on the list furnished thereto.

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