Patent ID: 7474980
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for prioritizing and scheduling monitoring visits to sites to obtain information, comprising: defining impact categories for said sites; defining measures of intensity for each said impact category; establishing guidance for assigning said measures of intensity; defining priority levels for said visits; calculating estimates of risk for each said site, wherein at least one first said estimate of risk is established via prediction and at least one second said estimate of risk is established via observation; assigning said estimates of risk to each said site; implementing a database in software to establish records and manipulate at least one of said impacts, measures, and estimates to assign one said priority level to each said site, each site of a given priority assigned to a unique group; installing said database on at least one computer; scheduling a sampling from each said group for said visits over a pre-specified interval, wherein said sampling is defined by randomly selecting a pre-defined percentage, said percentage unique to each said group, and wherein said sampling is defined by employing a pre-specified algorithm installed on at least one said computers; and providing said sampling as a list of sites to be visited by at least one site monitor during said pre-specified interval.