US 2003/0229559 A1 · Asset management platform

Abstract

An asset management platform (AMP) processes messages from mobile assets to enable data-driven monitoring and management of the assets. The mobile assets transmit messages to the AMP specifying the assets' current locations and other information. Modules in the AMP normalize and augment the messages using state information and other data stored in a database. A router routes copies of the messages to multiple destinations, including applications and a business operations middleware (BOM) module. The BOM includes queues for holding messages of different types and subscribers for processing the messages in the queues. An event-action subscriber processes messages as specified by event-action rules. The event-action rules provide flexible and extensible asset tracking, fleet management, and notification capabilities.

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Dependent claims

An asset management platform, comprising:

a database module for holding data for managing mobile assets, the data including event-action rules specifying processing for messages received from the mobile assets;
a network adapter module for receiving a message from a mobile asset, the message including data describing aspects of the mobile asset;
a business operations middleware (BOM) module for processing the received message responsive to the data describing aspects of the mobile asset and the event-action rules in the database module.

An asset management platform comprising:

an event-action rules module for storing event action rules for use in processing messages received from mobile assets, the event-action rules comprising:
a set of predicates describing possible states of the mobile assets and/or the asset management platform;
and
a set of actions to perform responsive to satisfaction of one or more of the set of predicates;
and
a processing module for receiving messages from mobile assets, identifying event-action rules in the event-action rules module applicable to the messages, and applying the event-action rules to the messages.

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Application

10/412,594Filed 8 Apr 2003

Priority

9 Apr 2002

Published

11 Dec 2003

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Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/08
Administration; Management: logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
G06Q 40/06
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: asset management; Financial planning or analysis
G08G 1/20
Traffic control systems for road vehicles: monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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Application60/371,544Us provisional application · filed 9 Apr 2002

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Application60/421,928Us provisional application · filed 28 Oct 2002

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