INTEGRATED CHANGE MANAGEMENT UNIT

• US 20110208553A1
• Filed: 10/26/2010
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Applications in Internet Time, LLC
• Original Assignee: Applications in Internet Time, LLC
• Inventors: Verma, Ashish K., Sturgeon, Douglas H., Mitchell, Christopher M., Frankland, Richard, Ferguson, Joseph D., Popowski, Judith E., Sziklai, Anthony T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,484,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.11
• CPC Class Codes: C10G 65/04 including only refining steps
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities, are discussed as examples. The system: provides one or more databases that contain information on operations and requirements concerning an activity or area of business; receives information on regulatory and non-regulatory changes that affect operations of the business; converts these changes into changes in data entry forms, data processing and analysis procedures, and presentation (by printing, electronic display and/or distribution) of data processing and analysis results to selected recipients, without requiring the services of one or more programmers to re-key and/or reformat the items affected by the change; and implements receipt of change information and dissemination of data processing and analysis results using the facilities of the Internet.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A method, comprising:

receiving first information about unique aspects of a particular application;

receiving second information about user interface elements and one or more functions common to various applications, the various applications including the particular application;

upon establishment of a communication connection with a user system that includes the particular application, dynamically generating a functionality and a user interface for the particular application, the functionality and the user interface of the particular application being based on the first information and the second information;

providing the functionality and the user interface of the particular application to the user system; and

modifying at least one of the first information and the second information in response to changes determined to have occurred to information associated with the particular application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first information includes information associated with one or more predetermined business applications.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the first information includes at least one of business knowledge, logical designs, physical designs, physical structures, and relationships associated with one or more predetermined business applications.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the second information includes metadata representative of structures and functions associated with a plurality of applications.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the second information includes metadata representative of user interface elements including at least one of tools, worklists, data entry points, reports, documents, processes, formulas, and images.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising providing a set instructions to the user system, the set of instructions being associated with at least one of the functionality or the user interface of the particular application, the set of instructions configured to be executed on the user system, the set of instructions configured to communicate information associated with at least one of the first information or the second information.

8. A machine-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a machine to perform a method, the code comprising code to:

receive first information about unique aspects of a particular application;

receive second information about user interface elements and one or more functions common to various applications, the various applications including the particular application;

upon establishment of a communication connection with a user system that includes the particular application, dynamically generate a functionality and a user interface for the particular application, the functionality and the user interface of the particular application being based on the first information and the second information;

provide the functionality and the user interface of the particular application to the user system; and

modify at least one of the first information and the second information in response to changes determined to have occurred to information associated with the particular application.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the first information includes information associated with one or more predetermined business applications.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the first information includes at least one of business knowledge, logical designs, physical designs, physical structures, and relationships associated with one or more predetermined business applications.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the second information includes metadata representative of structures and functions associated with a plurality of applications.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the second information includes metadata representative of user interface elements including at least one of tools, worklists, data entry points, reports, documents, processes, formulas, and images.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, further comprising code to provide a set of instructions to the user system, the set of instructions being associated with at least one of the functionality or the user interface of the particular application, the set of instructions configured to be executed on the user system, the set of instructions configured to communicate information associated with at least one of the first information or the second information.

14. A system, comprising:

a server accessible by a browser executed on a client device, the server including a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, and a fourth portion,

the first portion of the server having information about unique aspects of a particular application,

the second portion of the server having information about user interface elements and one or more functions common to various applications, the various applications including the particular application,

the third portion of the server being configured to dynamically generate a functionality and a user interface for the particular application, the functionality and the user interface of the particular application being based on the information in the first portion of the server and the information in the second portion of the server, the third portion of the server being configured to send the functionality and the user interface for the particular application to the browser upon establishment of the connection between the server and the client,

the fourth portion of the server being configured to automatically detect changes that affect the information in the first portion of the server and the information in the second portion of the server.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the information of the first portion of the server includes information associated with one or more predetermined business applications.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the information of the first portion of the server includes at least one of business knowledge, logical designs, physical designs, physical structures, and relationships associated with one or more predetermined business applications.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the information of the second portion of the server includes metadata representative of structures and functions associated with a plurality of applications.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the information of the second portion of the server includes metadata representative of user interface elements including at least one of tools, worklists, data entry points, reports, documents, processes, formulas, and images.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the third portion of the server is configured to provide a set of instructions to the user system, the set of instructions being associated with at least one of the functionality or the user interface of the particular application, the set of instructions configured to be executed on the user system, the set of instructions configured to communicate information associated with at least one of the first information or the second information.