Patent ID: 8214476
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for interfacing the work-flow monitoring and reporting of a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and a global information technology community, comprising the steps of: initiating an inventory, including software, of a plurality of information technology devices associated with said local network of information technology devices; determining the operational status of said plurality of said information technology devices associated with said local network; monitoring said operational status of said plurality of said information technology devices associated with said local network; presenting to said host computer information relating said operational status of said information technology devices associated with said local network; determining needs of said local network of information technology; associating said needs to similar needs of said community of network users, and solution product and services of said global information technology community; directing said host computer to research and purchasing resources similar in temperament of said needs of said local network of said information technology devices; and driving said global information technology community advertisements of said needs of said local network to said user of said host computer.