Appeal No. 2004-2090
Application No. 09/540,391
Invention
The invention relates to a system for monitoring the release of a product.
The product is characterized as having a series of features, each of which
requires a series of tasks such as engineering tasks, quality assurance tasks,
and technical documentation tasks, which must be approved and completed.
The tasks are grouped by owning function (i.e. engineering, quality assurance…)
and linked to the features. See page 2 of appellant’s specification.
Claim 15 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
15. A method for managing a release of a product, comprising:
describing the product in terms of a plurality of product features;
entering a description of each of said product features, wherein
said description comprises an instantiation of a feature list graphical user
interface;
defining a plurality of tasks, wherein each of said tasks is
associated with one of said product features, the plurality of tasks being
grouped into task types;
linking each of the plurality of tasks with one of the plurality of
product features;
entering a task progress development as an instantiation of a task-
type graphical user interface, wherein the task-type graphical user
interface is selected from a plurality of task-type graphical user interfaces,
each corresponding to one of the task types; and
tracking a status of each product feature via the instantiated task-
type graphical user interfaces.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Buckley et al. (Buckley) 5,036,472 Jul. 30,1991
Hsu et al. (Hsu) 6,347,258 Feb. 12, 2002
(Filed Aug. 09, 2000)
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