发明名称 Construction payment management system and method with automatic notification workflow features
摘要 Systems and method for managing a construction payment process. An input is received from a first participant and one of a plurality of stored notification workflows is accessed from a memory based on the information received from the first participant. Each stored notification workflow defines a sequence of automatic electronic notifications that are transmitted from the application server to one or more participants in the construction project in response to one or more predetermined events. Based on the accessed notification workflow, a second participant is identified and a first notification is automatically transmitted to the second participant. A response to the first notification is received from the second participant through an electronic form. The content of the response is automatically processed and a second notification is transmitted to a third participant based on the accessed notification workflow.
申请公布号 US9336542(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.05.10
申请号 US201213440694 申请日期 2012.04.05
申请人 Textura Corporation 发明人 Allin Patrick J.;Cherry Charles C.;Eichhorn William H.;Niden Howard L.;Pedersen, Jr. Richard P.;Bagley Matthew R.
分类号 G07B17/00;G07F19/00;G06Q30/04;G06Q10/00;G06Q10/06;G06Q10/10;G06Q20/10;G06Q20/14;G06Q20/40;G06Q30/00;G06Q40/00;G06Q40/02;G06Q40/04;G06Q40/06;G06Q50/08;G06Q50/16 主分类号 G07B17/00
代理机构 Michael Best & Friedrich LLP 代理人 Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
主权项 1. A construction project management system comprising an application server including a processor and a computer readable memory storing data representing a plurality of notification sequences, each notification sequence defining a sequence of automatic electronic notifications that are transmitted from the application server to one or more devices associated with one or more participants in a construction project in response to one or more predetermined events, and storing a user record including notification preferences for each of the one or more participants and editable by each of the one or more participants, and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the application server to: generate and provide a first user interface to a first participant device associated with a first participant over at least one network connection, the first user interface including a first input mechanism; receive an input through the first input mechanism from the first participant device, the input including an assignment of a second participant identifier associated with a second participant included in the construction project to a title associated with particular user role and security rights within the construction project management system, combine the second participant identifier and the user role and the security rights into a record associated with the construction project; in response to receiving the input, access data representing one of the plurality of stored notification sequences based on the input, identify, based on the accessed notification sequence and the second participant identifier, the second participant to transmit a first notification to in response to the input, access a user record for the second participant, identify, based on the accessed user record, notification preferences for the second participant, wherein the notification preferences for the second participant identifies a second participant device, automatically transmit a plurality of notifications to the second participant device each relating to one project of a plurality of projects managed by the construction project management system based on the plurality of stored notification sequences and the notification preferences for the second participant, wherein each notification of the plurality of notifications is displayed on a display device of a second participant device receiving the notification over at least one network connection in a standardized format and includes a project identifier for a project of the plurality of projects managed by the construction project management system, a textual description of an action performed by a participant associated with the project identifier, an indication of whether further action is required by the second participant, and, when further action is required by the second participant, a textual description of the further action to be performed by the second participant and a selectable link to an electronic form generated by the application server for receiving a response from the second participant device for performing the further action, andwherein the plurality of notifications includes the first notification and the first notification includes, in the standardized format, a textual description of the input received from the first participant, a textual description of an action to be performed by the second participant as a next step in the accessed notification sequence, and a selectable link to an electronic form including a second input mechanism for receiving a response related to the first notification from the second participant, in response to selection of the selectable link included in the first notification, automatically generate and transmit the electronic form including the second input mechanism to the second participant through the second participant device; receive a response related to the first notification through the second input mechanism included in the electronic form accessed through the second participant device, the response including at least one of an acceptance of the assignment and a declination of the assignment, automatically process the content of the response, automatically transmit a second notification to a third participant device based on the accessed notification sequence in response to the response received from the second participant device, the second notification includes at least one of a notification that the second participant has accepted the assignment and a notification that the second participant has declined the assignment, and combine the second notification with other notifications transmitted to the third participant device for access through the third participant device within the construction project management system.
地址 Deerfield IL US