COMPARATIVE ACTION MANAGEMENT

• US 20110246926A1
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IRUNURUN LLC
• Original Assignee: IRUNURUN LLC
• Inventors: Newton, Mark Asbury
• Application Number:
  US13/077,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20110246926A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling a user to set action items and automatically track the action items for the user. One implementation includes a server in communication with a network. The server according to some embodiments comprises a processing device configured to execute logic instructions of the server. The server also includes an interface device configured to communicate with an end user device via the network. An objective definition module is configured to enable a user of the end user device to enter at least one action item intended to be performed by the user during a specific time period. A recordation module is configured to receive updates from the user regarding a successful completion of at least a portion of the at least one action item. The recordation module is further configured to calculate progress that the user has made toward completing each of the at least one action item.

Claims

1. A server in communication with a network, the server comprising:

a processing device configured to execute logic instructions of the server;

an objective definition module configured to enable a user of the end user device to define at least one action item intended to be performed by the user during a specific time period; and

a recordation module configured to receive updates from the user regarding a successful completion of at least a portion of the at least one action item.

2. The server of claim 1, wherein the recordation module is further configured to calculate progress that the user has made in performing each of the at least one action items, wherein the progress is calculated as a weighted score, with each action item having a designated weight.

3. The server of claim 2, wherein the recordation module is further configured to send a report of the calculated progress to the end user device via an email message.

4. The server of claim 2, wherein the recordation module is further configured to display the progress on a web page accessible by the user.

5. The server of claim 1, further comprising a database management module configured to control a database for storing an email address and password for the user, the at least one action item for the user, and the progress of the user in performing the at least one action item.

6. The server of claim 5, the database management module further configured to control a database for storing results from at least one previous time period.

7. The server of claim 1, further comprising an email module configured to send an email to the user to prompt the user to provide updates regarding the successful completion of at least a portion of the at least one action item.

8. The server of claim 1, further comprising a team management module configured to enable the user to invite other users to join a team and further configured to enable the user, when invited, to join other teams if desired.

9. The server of claim 8, wherein, for each of the at least one action item, the objective definition module is further configured to enable the user to enter whether the respective action item is accessible by other members of a team.

10. The server of claim 8, wherein the user is measured in comparison to the performance of each of the other users in the team through the calculation of progress scores representing weighted percentages of completions of all action items within a specific time period.

11. The server of claim 1, wherein, for each of the at least one action item, the objective definition module is further configured to enable the user to enter how many times the user intends to perform steps toward completing the respective action item during the specific time period

12. The server of claim 1, wherein, for each of the at least one action item, the objective definition module is further configured to enable the user to enter how much of the respective action item the user intends to perform during the specific time period.

13. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying at least one action item to be performed by a person;

displaying, with each at least one action item, a representation of days within a specific time period during which the person is intended to perform the at least one action item;

enabling the person to select a specific day associated with a first action item to indicate completion of a portion of the first action item for the specific day; and

changing the appearance of the representation of the specific day.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining whether the first action item associated with the selected specific day includes a quantity; and

if the first action item includes a quantity, enabling the person to enter an amount of the first action item the person accomplished during the selected specific day.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying the progress that the person has made toward performing each at least one action item during the specific time period.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising:

displaying a total score based on at least the progress that the person has made toward reaching each of the at least one action item and a weighting factor for each of the at least one action item.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying a chart representing the total scores for a plurality of previous time periods.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the person is a member of an enterprise having at least one administrator, the computer-implemented method further comprising:

enabling the at least one administrator to perform at least one of adding and editing the at least one action item for the person.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, further comprising:

enabling the at least one administrator to customize settings of at least one graphical user interface for members of the enterprise.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising enabling the user to join a team of other users with similar action items.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 20, further comprising enabling comparison of the user to other members of the team.

22. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instruction being executable by a processing device, the computer-readable medium comprising:

logic adapted to enable a user to enter a first action item into a first input field, the first action item being set to provide a benchmark for a person to perform during a specific time period;

logic adapted to enable the user to enter into a second input field a frequency of the action item to be performed by the person during the specific time period;

logic adapted to determine if the frequency of the action item is throughout the specific time period and, if so, to enable the user to enter into a third input field a quantity of the action item to be performed by the person during the specific time period to perform the first action item; and

logic adapted to display the first action item, frequency, and, if entered, the quantity.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein

the logic adapted to enable the user to enter the first action item further enables the user to enter at least one additional action item,

the logic adapted to enable the user to enter the frequency further enables the user to enter a frequency for each of at least additional action item, and

the logic adapted to enable the user to enter the quantity further enables the user to enter a quantity for each of the at least one additional action item when the frequency for the respective at least one additional action item is throughout the specific time period.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, further comprising logic adapted to enable the user to enter a weight for at least one of the first action item and the at least one additional action item.

25. The computer-readable medium of claim 24, further comprising logic adapted to alert the user when the total of the weights does not equal 100.

26. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, further comprising logic adapted to automatically weight each of the first action item and the at least one additional action item evenly.

27. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the user and the person are the same.

28. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the user is an administrator of an enterprise and the person is one of a number of members of the enterprise.

29. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising logic adapted to enable the user to enter whether the first action item is to be private and inaccessible by other members of the enterprise.

30. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the specific time period is one week.