Lisa A Spampinato

US Patent:

20070198571, Aug 23, 2007

Filed:

Jan 3, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/619362

Inventors:

John R. Ferguson - Concord MA, US
Lisa Spampinato - Easton MA, US
Sean T. McKenna - West Roxbury MA, US
James R. Tice - Malden MA, US
Ryszard Kilarski - Brookline MA, US

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707102

Abstract:

A task management system for providing a graphically displayable worklist having one or more rows of work items, one or more of the work items each representing one or more data rows to be worked from one or more application data tables that are not a task object table of the task management system, the task management system comprising a task database having at least one task object, a first dedicated task object in said task database, said first dedicated task object having a second metadata associated therewith for graphically displaying information related to said first dedicated task object, a first view object having a first set of instructions for determining a first plurality of data rows of the one or more application data tables and a second set of instructions for creating a first association between each data row of said first plurality of data rows and said first dedicated task object, and a display generator for using said second metadata in initiating generation of display data representing a display image presenting a worklist, said worklist having a first one or more rows of application data table work items, each of said first one or more rows of application data table work items representing at least one data row of said first plurality of data rows.