Patent ID: 9703888
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer method for providing component obsolescence information online in a global computer network, comprising: providing an electronic obsolescence registry, online in a global computer network, for holding component obsolescence information, the electronic obsolescence registry having different entries for different pieces of the component obsolescence information; employing component-specific indices in the different entries in the electronic obsolescence registry; for a respective one of the component-specific indices, authorizing a given user to maintain the respective component-specific index based on the given user's association to a certain component corresponding to the respective component-specific index; enabling the given user, in the global computer network, to create an entry corresponding to the respective component-specific index in the electronic obsolescence registry, while enabling end-users, in the global computer network, to create one or more entries in the electronic obsolescence registry; enabling the given user and end-users, in the global computer network, to search the electronic obsolescence registry for component obsolescence information relating to components using one or more component-specific indices; wherein global access is provided to the given user and end-users to access component obsolescence information from different sources in the electronic obsolescence registry online, such that the given user and end-users each use component-specific indices to access the electronic obsolescence registry online in the global computer network; and analyzing a plurality of entries having similar component-specific indices and predicting obsolescence status of the certain component corresponding to respective component-specific indices maintained by authorized given users associated to the certain component.