Internet-enabled portfolio manager system and method
US5706502A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 26, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jan 6, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 26, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A portfolio management system (PMS) is disclosed that allows users to manage, create, edit, debug and compile software portfolios that can include several different types of components, or projects. For example, projects can be Java applets, standalone executable programs, image files, Java class libraries or remote Java applets. The software portfolios and/or their constituent projects can be stored on the system hosting the portfolio management system or on any remote system that can be accessed via the Internet using standard Internet communications protocols, such as FTP or HTTP. The PMS includes portfolio files, each of which includes links to the projects that compose a portfolio and project files that set out the attributes of one project. The PMS also provides portfolio methods that allow users to create, choose, import and remove entire portfolios and project methods that allow users to create, import, choose, edit, remove, run, copy and paste projects. The contents of a particular portfolio or project file determines how the PMS implements the aforementioned methods. For example, if a user wants to import a portfolio from a remote system, the PMS invokes an integrated Web…
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