General Electric Company

General Electric Capital Corporation

Christopher Leon Stanard

John Erik Hershey

Brock Estel Osborn

Lisa Demko

Charlotte G Peterson

Sada Reddy

Jeannie Pumphrey

Douglas R Kornish

Harsha Hatti

Kim Giancaspro

David Mark Handkins

The disclosed invention is a software license management system (SLMS) utilizing a web-based interactive database to automate a software management process (SWMP) for managing software assets, measuring compliance requirements, and tracking/reporting status as necessary to assure proficiency and adherence to implementation requirements of the software management process. The SWMP is a process consisting of five different phases. The five steps of the SWMP involve identification of various solution alternatives, acquisition, deployment, maintenance and software retirement. The SWMP establishes high-level software management process to avoid litigation and penalties, maximize software asset utilization through tighter inventory control, and capitalize on the software procurement process.

Web-based system for managing software assets

A reliability assessment analysis system. Included as part of system are a plurality of analysis stations, at least one of the analysis stations being located at a remote geographic location from others, and each of the analysis stations being capable of performing reliability assessment analysis processes on components or systems of components. Further provided is a plurality of database sites, where at least one of the database sites is located at a remote geographic location from the others. Each database site includes a database of data, at least some of the data being usable by at least one of the analysis stations. A communications infrastructure provides a communication path between and among the plurality of analysis stations and the plurality of database sites. The analysis stations and database sites are configured to provide a user of at least one of the analysis stations with access to more than a single one of the database sites. The analysis stations and the database sites are further configured to update data stored on the database sites when newly updated data is entered into the system.

Reliability assessment method, apparatus and system for quality control

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Niskayuna, NY, United States of America

Christopher Leon Stanard