Patent ID: 8495064
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of managing life cycle inventory and assessment data for a product, comprising: receiving one or more data items for a first product, each of the one or more data items being associated with one or more metadata items; parsing the one or more data items for identifying each of the one or more data items by the one or more metadata items; separating each of the one or more data items in association with the one or more metadata items; storing each of the separated one or more data items in one or more data repositories corresponding to one or more data types associated with each of the one or more data items; retrieving each of the one or more data items from a corresponding data repository by a metadata items associated with each retrieved one or more data items; validating the retrieved one or more data items as life cycle inventory items to be used for generation of a life cycle assessment score for the first product, if the retrieved one or more data items may be accepted as the life cycle inventory data items for the first product, accepting the retrieved one or more data items as the life cycle inventory data items for the first product; and updating the one or more metadata items associated with each of the retrieved one or more data items accepted as the life cycle inventory data items to indicate the life cycle inventory data items may be used to generate the life cycle assessment score for the first product.