Object monitoring and management system

Patent 7464067 Issued on December 9, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 10, 2022. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Hotbutton Solutions Inc.

Application

No. 10118927 filed on 04/10/2002

US Classes:

707/1DATABASE OR FILE ACCESSING

Examiners

Primary: Le, Debbie M.
Assistant: Hotelling, Harold A

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

WO 96/27171 WO 06/01/1996
WO 01/33759 WO 10/01/2001

International Classes

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 17/00
G06F 12/00
G06F 15/16

Abstract

An object management system permits companies/organizations to grant access to third parties to partitioned subsets of a central database to enable completely paperless asset or process management. The central database can be used simultaneously by a plurality of companies/organizations, third party service providers and/or regulatory authorities, without compromise of data security. Data is partitioned on an Issuing Unit basis. Each Issuing Unit is enabled to autonomously generate primary keys. The relationship of Issuing Unit Group to managed objects is a may-to-many relationship to enable ultimate flexibility in data partitioning.