Asset inventory system
First Claim
1. A method of conducting an electronic collateralisation search, the method conducted by an asset inventory system and comprising:
- generating an image of asset records of a first party, the asset records being distributed on one or more remotely-located asset depositories;
receiving, over a network, a first set of parameters from a user terminal, the first set of parameters indicating one or more predefined threshold criteria of the first party;
storing the first set of parameters in the asset inventory system;
filtering the image of asset records into a subset of asset records based on the stored first set of parameters;
receiving, over the network, a search query from a third party collateralisation search engine to identify assets for use as collateral in a transaction between the first party and a second party, the search query comprising a second set of parameters indicating one or more criteria of the second party;
restricting the search query to be executed on only the filtered subset of asset records;
receiving, over the network, a data message from a given asset depository, the data message comprising an updated status of one or more asset records of the given asset depository;
updating the image of asset records based on the received data message; and
updating the subset of asset records based on the updated image of asset records and the stored set of parameters.
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method of improving the efficiency of an electronic collateralisation search engine that uses assets distributed on one or more remotely-located asset depositories. The method comprises selecting from a database of asset records of the remotely-located assets of a collateral giver, a subset of asset records having asset characteristics that satisfy a collateral giver'"'"'s one or more predefined threshold criteria. Restricting a received search of collateral giver'"'"'s asset records, which match a collateral receiver'"'"'s query, to the subset of collateral giver'"'"'s asset records.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of conducting an electronic collateralisation search, the method conducted by an asset inventory system and comprising:
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generating an image of asset records of a first party, the asset records being distributed on one or more remotely-located asset depositories; receiving, over a network, a first set of parameters from a user terminal, the first set of parameters indicating one or more predefined threshold criteria of the first party; storing the first set of parameters in the asset inventory system; filtering the image of asset records into a subset of asset records based on the stored first set of parameters; receiving, over the network, a search query from a third party collateralisation search engine to identify assets for use as collateral in a transaction between the first party and a second party, the search query comprising a second set of parameters indicating one or more criteria of the second party; restricting the search query to be executed on only the filtered subset of asset records; receiving, over the network, a data message from a given asset depository, the data message comprising an updated status of one or more asset records of the given asset depository; updating the image of asset records based on the received data message; and updating the subset of asset records based on the updated image of asset records and the stored set of parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An asset inventory system for conducting an electronic collateralisation search, the system comprising:
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an image of a plurality of asset records, each asset record specifying an asset belonging to a first party and available to at least one remotely-located asset depository, wherein each specified asset comprises one or more variable asset characteristics associated with a status of the specified asset; a communication module arranged to receive a predefined set of qualifying characteristics from a user terminal over a network connection, the predefined set of qualifying characteristics indicating one or more predefined threshold criteria of the first party; a non-transitory storage medium arranged to store the predefined set of qualifying characteristics; a first processing module arranged to define a qualifying subset of the asset records by comparing the one or more variable asset characteristics of each asset record with the predefined set of qualifying characteristics and assigning any asset records which comprise the predefined qualifying characteristics to the qualifying subset; the communication module further arranged to receive a search query from a third party collateralisation search engine over the network connection, the search query indicating one or more criteria of a second party; a controller arranged to restrict the search query to be executed on only the qualifying subset of asset records; the communication module further arranged to receive a data message from one of the asset depositories over the network connection, the data message comprising current status information associated with updated variable asset characteristics of a given asset; a second processing module arranged to update the given asset in the image of asset records, with the updated variable asset characteristics; wherein the first processing module is arranged to determine whether the updated variable asset characteristics of the given asset in the asset record satisfy the predefined set of qualifying characteristics and to include the updated asset record in the qualifying subset when the updated variable asset characteristics of the updated asset record satisfy the predefined set of qualifying characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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