Patent ID: 9582776
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of providing consolidated self-service IT asset management, the method comprising: receiving, at an information technology (IT) asset management system, a communication from a user device; identifying, at the IT asset management system, an IT assets custodian that corresponds to the user device based on the communication, the IT asset custodian is associated with a first role identifying a first type of asset assignment and a second role identifying a second type of asset assignment; querying, by the IT asset management system, a first database using an identifier of the IT assets custodian to identify one or more first IT assets assigned to the IT assets custodian, the first database being associated with the first role, the one or more first IT assets including a portable hardware device; querying, by the IT asset management system, a second database using an identifier of the IT assets custodian to identify one or more second IT assets assigned to the IT assets custodian, the second database being associated the second role; generating, at the IT asset management system, an asset management user interface that includes an aggregated view identifying IT assets assigned to the IT assets custodian, the aggregated view identifying each of the one or more first IT assets and each of the one or more second IT assets; transmitting, from the IT asset management system, the asset management user interface to the user device; monitoring a physical usage of at least one of the one or more assigned IT assets; determining, by the IT asset management system based on the monitoring, that the at least one of the assigned IT assets is to be re-assigned from the IT asset custodian to another IT asset custodian; assigning, by the IT asset management system, the at least one of the assigned IT assets to the another IT asset custodian; and removing, by the IT asset management system, an assignment of the at least one of the assigned IT assets from the IT asset custodian.