System for Managing Moveable Assets Using Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technology, and Method for Operating Same

• US 20120072430A1
• Filed: 06/04/2009
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Whon-Il Park
• Original Assignee: Whon-Il Park
• Inventors: Park, Whon-Il
• Application Number:
  US13/139,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20120072430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A Movable Asset Management System using Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Devices and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The movable asset management system using AIDC technologies includes: AIDC devices storing information about movable property and/or movable property collateral and transmitting the same to an external device; information posted on the movable property and used to specify such movable property; location information of the movable property; and/or information identifying a owner of the movable property, and information about the movable property including current status of usage and/or information identifying an obligor and a secured creditor, when security interest is created thereon; information on the secured credit amount and maximum amount of the security interest, if necessary; and/or information about the movable property collateral including, but not limited to, the cause of registration, date, existence period and a serial number of registration, when the security interest has been registered; a mobile reader receiving the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, transmitted from the AIDC devices, and transmitting the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral to a database system via networks. The database system includes: a communication unit receiving the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral from the mobile reader; a database storing the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral; a control unit storing the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, received from the mobile reader, in the database and managing the database; a display unit connected to the control unit and displaying the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, received by the communication unit; and an input unit connected to the control unit, which is operated by a user to retrieve and search the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, stored in the database. This system of the present invention manages an individual movable property or collective movable properties with AIDC devices attached thereto (or embedded therein) and to provide the systematic asset/facility management services by utilizing the database in an efficient manner by means of computers and the Internet.

Claims

1. A movable asset management system using AIDC technologies comprising:

an AIDC device for storing information relating to movable property and/or information relating to movable property collateral, and for transmitting the information relating to movable property and/or information relating to movable property collateral to an external device;

wherein the information relating to movable property is posted on the movable property,

wherein the information relating to movable property includes information for specifying the movable property, information of location of the movable property, information for identifying a owner of the movable property, and information of current status about usage of the movable property,

and wherein the information relating to movable property collateral includes information for identifying an obligor and a secured creditor when security interest is created thereon, information on the secured credit amount and maximum amount of the security interest, and information on cause of registration, registration date, existence period and a serial number of registration when the security interest has been registered,

a mobile reader for receiving the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral, transmitted from the AIDC devices, and for transmitting the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral to a database system via networks;

a communication unit for receiving the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral from the mobile reader;

a database for storing the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral;

a control unit for controlling and managing the database;

a display unit, connected to the control unit, which displays the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral, received by the communication unit; and

an input unit, connected to the control unit to be operated by a user to retrieve and search the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral, stored in the database.

2. The movable asset management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a movable property electronic registration system which receives the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral from the database,

and compares the information relating to the movable property and/or the movable property collateral which is stored in the database with original information relating to the movable property and/or the movable property collateral so as to search for double registration of a single movable property.

3. The movable asset management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a gate reader checking whether the movable property is moved out of a location of the movable property recognized from the information about the movable property stored in the database;

and

a movable property security system alarming when it is determined that the movable property is moved out of the location by the gate reader, and displaying of results of periodic comparison and analysis of the status quo movable property with traceable history thereof.

4. The movable asset management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a movable property evaluation system generating a score or rate subject to the periodic comparison and analysis of the status quo movable property with the traceable history, and assessing value of the movable property based on the score or rate.

5. The movable asset management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a movable property disposal system classifying the information relating to the movable property and/or the information relating to the movable property collateral into several categories and combinations thereof under predetermined criteria based on the database, and discloses information necessary for the trading of the movable property.