Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2001-11-29
2009-11-24
DeCady, Albert (Department: 2121)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
C705S002000, C705S022000, C705S028000, C235S385000, C340S005920
Reexamination Certificate
active
07624034
ABSTRACT:
The patent discloses a system and related method for taking, receiving and reconciling physical inventory data against an asset management system from a remote location. In the disclosed system, assets as well as their locations are scanned using a hand held bar code scanner. Scanner information is uploaded to a particular location on a web server. Once transferred, the scanner files are converted to an intermediate database. Individual records of the intermediate database are then compared against their corresponding records, if any, in a main asset database by way of a web user interface. Records are modified, rejected or accepted by way of the web user interface, and then accepted records are written to the main asset database. In this way, multiple steps of the reconciliation process may take place at the same time, and reconciliation may be done quickly and efficiently, even from a remote location.
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Botham Robert A.
Murray Lorna M.
DeCady Albert
Hewlett--Packard Development Company, L.P.
Robertson Dave
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