METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED ASSET MANAGEMENT

• US 20130055236A1
• Filed: 09/10/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Callahan Cellular LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Caldvor Acquisitions Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Thomas, Shawn, Gray, Gregory, Woodfin, Michael, Mizell, Warner, Thomas, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 8,631,014 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

The method and system of the present invention provides an improved technique for integrated asset management. Information is aggregated from a variety of sources into a centralized computerized database. Thereafter, asset transition events are scheduled. Information from the centralized computerized database is used in the performance of the asset transition events and information relating to the asset transition events is added to the centralized computerized database. Subsequent changes to the asset are also recorded into the centralized computerized database. As a result, a plethora of information is available within said database for the purpose of managing future asset transition events.

Claims

1-34. -34. (canceled)

35. A method for application management comprising the steps of:

inputting results from an electronic discovery application into a data dictionary;

generating the user'"'"'s software pages;

analyzing said user'"'"'s software pages against information in said data dictionary;

updating the status of software applications in said data dictionary based on the results of said analysis;

installing applicable software on said user'"'"'s device; and

verifying that said applicable software has been properly installed on said user'"'"'s device.

36. The method of claim 35 wherein said results from said electronic discovery application includes information selected from the group consisting of executable files names, manufacturer'"'"'s names, application versions and the relative path.

37. The method of claim 35 wherein said data dictionary also retains information other than said results from said electronic discovery application.

38. The method of claim 35 wherein said user'"'"'s software pages are generated based in part on information contained in said data dictionary.

39. The method of claim 35 wherein said method of analyzing said user'"'"'s software pages includes a means for comparing said user'"'"'s software pages to said data dictionary and generating an analysis of the results.

40. The method of claim 35 wherein said method of analyzing said user'"'"'s software pages includes a means for updating the status of said software applications listed in said data dictionary based on said results.

41. At least one tangible, computer-readable medium, having contents that when executed by at least one data processing device, performs a method, the method comprising:

inputting results from an electronic discovery application into a data dictionary;

generating the user'"'"'s software pages;

analyzing said user'"'"'s software pages against information in said data dictionary;

updating the status of software applications in said data dictionary based on the results of said analysis;

installing applicable software on said user'"'"'s device; and

verifying that said applicable software has been properly installed on said user'"'"'s device.

42. The method of claim 41 wherein said results from said electronic discovery application includes information selected from the group consisting of executable files names, manufacturer'"'"'s names, application versions and the relative path.

43. The method of claim 41 wherein said data dictionary also retains information other than said results from said electronic discovery application.

44. The method of claim 41 wherein said user'"'"'s software pages are generated based in part on information contained in said data dictionary.

45. A system for integrated asset management comprising:

a processing means;

an input means operable with the processing means to input results from an electronic discovery application into a data dictionary;

a generating means operable with the processing means to generate the user'"'"'s software pages;

an analyzer means operable with the processing means to analyze said user'"'"'s software pages against information in said data dictionary;

an update means operable with the processing means to update the status of software applications in said data dictionary based on the results of said analysis;

an installation means operable with the processing means to install applicable software on said user'"'"'s device;

a verification means operable with the processing means to verify that said applicable software has been properly installed on said user'"'"'s device; and

an output means operable with the processing means to produce information, based at least on the verification means.