International Business Machines Corporation

Nortel Networks Corporation

Peter Roy Ballantine

Johnathan Hodge

Sasa Conic

Gorete M Almeida

A computing device is described that includes a user interface to receive contribution data of an enterprise and to display a sheet of the contribution data, an annotation interface module to receive one or more annotations for objects of the contribution data, a planning application to retrieve a context definition defining a context in which each of the annotations was received, and an annotation table to store each of the annotations and the context definition corresponding to each of the annotations. The user interface may be configured to output the annotations. The computing device may improve the collaborative process of developing multidimensional data. Users of the computing device may quickly and easily share their thoughts, questions, and comments about the data through annotations. Recreating an annotated sheet may be done efficiently by storing relevant coordinates.

Data entry commentary and sheet reconstruction for multidimensional enterprise system

A software tool for monitoring network performance, traffic, inventory, breakdown, repair activity, and other conditions, alerts a user to anticipated problems based upon projection of performance and related data. The software can also suggest appropriate solutions, schedules proactive maintenance based upon anticipated fail date, importance to the network, repairperson availability, and company policy. A user can set the parameters of the software tool to provide customized network maintenance.

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Dunrobin, Canada

Peter Roy Ballantine