Tagging of assets for content distribution in an enterprise management system

• US 10,332,045 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
• Original Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
• Inventors: Cartwright, Richard W., Smith, Jennifer L., Murphy, Joshua B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickerson, Tiphany B
• Application Number:
  US14/363,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20140337070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,384 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

A content distribution platform may include processing circuitry having a processor and memory. The memory may store a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library. The processor may be configured to enable assignment of tags to the food preparation assets. Each tag may define an association between a respective one of the assets and a characteristic of the respective one of the assets to enable the content distribution platform to distribute the content items on the basis of the tags.

Claims

1. A content distribution system in an enterprise management network, the system comprising:

a content distribution platform comprising processing circuitry, the content distribution platform hosting at least one content library, the at least one content library including a plurality of content items related to food preparation; and

a plurality of food preparation assets in communication with the content distribution platform via the network,

wherein the processing circuitry of the content distribution is configured to extract profile information from each of the food preparation assets and assign a tag to each of the food preparation assets based on the profile information extracted,

wherein the tag defines an association between a respective one of the food preparation assets and a characteristic of the respective one of the food preparation assets from the profile information, and

wherein the content distribution platform is configured to distribute one or more of the plurality of content items based on the tag to selected food preparation assets.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the association is an operator defined association.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the association is a fixed association.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the food preparation asset is an oven, a holding cabinet, a fryer, food weighing equipment, or a food cooling device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the characteristic is location, function, asset type, or organization.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to define a plurality of levels of groups in a hierarchical organization based on the tags.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to display the groups in the hierarchical organization along with a descriptor for at least one group, the descriptor indicating a number of food preparation assets or content items that are associated with the at least one group.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the descriptor indicates a sum of all descriptors associated with each sub-level included within the at least one group.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the content distribution platform is further configured to distribute the one or more of the plurality of content items to a selected food preparation asset by selecting the selected food preparation asset from the hierarchical organization.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the content distribution platform is further configured to distribute the one or more of the plurality of content items to all food preparation assets associated with the at least one group by selecting the one or more of the plurality of content items and dragging the one or more of the plurality of content items to the at least one group from the hierarchical organization.

11. A content distribution platform comprising processing circuitry including a processor and memory, the memory storing a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library,

wherein the processor of the content distribution platform is configured to extract profile information from a food preparation asset and assign a tag to the food preparation asset based on the profile information extracted, and wherein the tag defines an association between the food preparation asset and a characteristic of the respective one of the food preparation asset from the profile information to distribute one or more of the plurality of content items based on the tag to the food preparation asset via the content distribution platform.

12. The content distribution platform of claim 11, wherein the association is an operator defined association.

13. The content distribution platform of claim 11, wherein the association is a fixed association.

14. The content distribution platform of claim 11, wherein the food preparation asset is an oven, a holding cabinet, a fryer, food weighing equipment, or a food cooling device.

15. The content distribution platform of claim 11, wherein the characteristic is location, function, asset type, or organization.

16. A method comprising:

receiving identifying information regarding a food preparation asset;

registering the asset in association with at least one profile;

assigning a tag to the food preparation asset based on the at least one profile

the tag defining an association between the food preparation asset and a characteristic of the food preparation asset from the at least one profile;

storing the association between the tag and the food preparation asset along with other tags associated with other food preparation assets; and

identifying, via an operator, one or more selected food preparation assets to target for delivery of content via a network based on selection of the tag.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein at least one of the one or more tags is associated with information extracted from the at least one profile.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein enabling the operator to identify one or more selected assets to target for delivery of content comprises providing a display of groups in a hierarchical organization based on location, function, asset type, or organization and enabling the operator to select a group from the hierarchical organization.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising displaying a descriptor for at least one group, the descriptor indicating a number of food preparation assets or content items that are associated with the at least one group.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein enabling the operator to identify one or more selected food preparation assets to target for delivery of content further comprises enabling the operator to cause content distribution to a selected food preparation asset by dragging a content item from the hierarchical organization to a group associated with the selected food preparation asset.