Method and system for integrated asset management

• US 8,631,014 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2012
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): AL HASHEMI, SANA A
• Application Number:
  US13/609,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20130055236A1
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 707/706, 707/711, 707/747, 707/743, 707/744, 707/735
• US Class Current: 707/744
• 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. A method for application management comprising:

inputting results from an electronic discovery application into a data dictionary, wherein the results indicate one or more applications installed at a computing device;

generating one or more user software pages based on the results;

comparing the one or more applications indicated as being installed at the computing device to an application indicated in the data dictionary as being installed at an earlier time;

determining a status indicator of at least one of the one or more applications, wherein the status indicator is in the data dictionary based on the results of the comparison; and

remotely installing at the computer device software corresponding to the one or more application, based on the determined status indicator.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the results from the electronic discovery application include information selected from a group consisting of executable files names, manufacturer'"'"'s names, and application versions.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the data dictionary retains information other than the results from the electronic discovery application.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the user software pages are generated based in part on information contained in the data dictionary.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the method of analyzing the user software pages includes a means for comparing the user software pages to the data dictionary and generating an analysis of the results.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the method of analyzing the user software pages includes a means for updating the status of the software applications indicated in the data dictionary based on the results and verifying that the remotely installed software is properly installed on the computing device.

2. 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, wherein the results indicate one or more applications installed at a computing device;

generating one or more user software pages based on the results;

comparing the one or more applications indicated as being installed at the computing device to an application indicated in the data dictionary as being installed at an earlier time;

determining a status indicator of at least one of the one or more applications, wherein the status indicator is in the data dictionary based on the results of the comparison; and

remotely installing at the computer device software corresponding to the one or more application, based on the determined status indicator.

10. The method of claim 2 wherein the results from the electronic discovery application includes information selected from a group consisting of executable files names, manufacturer'"'"'s names, application versions and a relative path.

11. The method of claim 2 wherein the data dictionary retains information other than the results from the electronic discovery application.

12. The method of claim 2 wherein the user software pages are generated based in part on information contained in the data dictionary.

3. 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, wherein the results indicate one or more applications installed at a computing device;

a generating means operable with the processing means to generate one or more user software pages based on the results;

a comparing means operable with the processing means to compare the one or more applications indicated as being installed at the computing device to an application indicated in the data dictionary as being installed at an earlier time;

a determining means operable with the processing means to determine a status indicator of at least one of the one or more applications, wherein the status indicator is in the data dictionary based on the results of the comparison;

an installation means operable with the processing means to remotely install at the computer device software corresponding to the one or more application, based on the determined status indicator; and

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

4. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions that, when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to:

determine one or more applications at a remote computer device during an automated electronic discovery process;

input into a data dictionary a reference to the one or more applications determined during the electronic discovery process;

generate one or more user software pages based on the one or more applications determined during the electronic discovery process;

compare the one or more user software pages to information in the data dictionary, wherein the information includes results from a previous electronic discovery process to determine one or more installed applications;

determine a status of the one or more software applications referenced in the data dictionary, based on the results of the comparison; and

remotely install an application at the computing device when the application is referenced at the data dictionary and is not an application of the one or more applications determined during the automatic electronic discovery process.