Integrated environmental emission reduction data management system and method

• US 20060195334A1
• Filed: 11/17/2005
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sequoia Communications Corporation, XL TechGroup, Inc.
• Original Assignee: XL TechGroup, Inc.
• Inventors: Reeb, Shayne A., Harclerode, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/281,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195334A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

A system for tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions and of associating individual environmental emission reductions to the producer, to a variety of collected data, or both includes selecting a production practice of the producer and an appropriate protocol for converting the production practice to a measure of environmental emissions. An identifier for each quantifiable unit of environmental emissions a sequence portion characterizing a succession of units, a vintage portion characterizing the time period for the production practice, a protocol characterizing portion and a geographical reference portion. Such an identifier allows for a tracking of the processes that resulted in the environmental emissions measurement.

Claims

1. A method of tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions, the method comprising:

selecting a production practice of the producer;

selecting a protocol applicable with the production practice for determining an environmental emissions characteristic;

collecting production practice data of the producer;

converting the production practice data to environmental data;

designating a geographical reference for the producer;

converting the environmental data to an emission reduction unit for a transferring thereof; and

assigning an identifier to the emission reduction unit, wherein the identifier includes a sequence portion for a characterizing thereof.