System and Method for Tracking Information in a Business Environment

Abstract

A system and method for tracking information in a business environment. The system uses a tree-view hierarchy whereby alerts and time triggers are set by the user and upon the triggering of an event, the visual attributes of the tree-view folders change to reflect the triggering event.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A method for tracking and displaying time critical information comprising:
 establishing a parent folder;   establishing a child element associated with the parent folder;   correlating the child element with a time critical task;   associating a first alert interval with the time critical task;   starting a system clock and monitoring system time;   changing an attribute of the child element when system time equals or exceeds the first alert interval; and   changing an attribute of the parent folder when the attribute of the child element changes.