Method and system for providing remote quality assurance audits
OwnerHelen Elizabeth Bryan, Mark Joseph Colby +3inventors
InventorsHelen Elizabeth Bryan, Mark Joseph Colby, Ralph Joseph Reda, Daniel Brian Waltermire, William Kerry Williams
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Abstract
A system for auditing complex systems, such as nuclear power plants, is disclosed. The system stores all documents necessary for an audit. These documents are available for remote review by auditors via an Internet website. The website has one or more graphical maps of the system, its components and/or sub-systems that allows the auditor to select and access documents in the database(s).
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A system for providing limited access to information needed to conduct an audit of a complex system comprising:
- a host computer system in communication with other computer systems, said host computer system operating an interactive information management program having a graphical image of said complex system;
- a first database in communication with the host computer system, said first database having information related to the complex system and said first database linked to the information management program such that features of the complex system shown on the graphical image are each logically linked to information in the first database corresponding to the feature in the complex system;
- a second database on a first remote computer system in communication with the host computer system, said second database having information related to the complex system and said second database linked to the information management program such that features of the complex system shown on the graphical image are each logically linked to information in the second database corresponding to the feature in the complex system;
- a user access terminal remote from the host computer and in communication with the host computer, wherein the user access terminal displays the graphical image communicated from host computer system, and the user can point to a feature on the graphical image displayed on the terminal to cause the interactive information management program to retrieve information corresponding to the pointed to feature from the first and second databases and display the retrieved information at the user terminal.
A method for providing remote access to information needed to conduct an audit of a complex system, using a system including a host computer, a first database, and a remote user terminal, comprising the steps of:
- a. operating on the host computer system an interactive information management program having a graphical image of the complex system, wherein the graphical image shows selectable features of the complex system;
- b. a user remotely accessing the interactive information management system via the remote user terminal, wherein said graphical image is displayed on the remote terminal;
- c. the said user interacts with the image displayed on the remote terminal by selecting at least one feature on the image corresponding to a feature of the complex system that the user has selected to audit;
- d. the selection of the at least one feature is conveyed from the remote terminal to interactive information management system in the host computer, which retrieves data from said first database related to the selected feature, and
- e. the data related to the selected feature is displayed on the remote terminal to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.