Patent ID: 8135611

Claim:
A method for managing and evaluating a plurality of assets comprising: for a first asset of the plurality of assets: generating on a mobile computing device a sequence of prompts for producing worksheet data, wherein the sequence of prompts include a prompt to enter a serial number of the first asset into a field, a question of whether or not a particular component of the first asset is needed, a question of whether or not installation of the first asset is complete and working, and a prompt to take a digital image of the first asset and digital image of an asset tag for the first asset; receiving a signal indicating that a service representative has arrived at an asset location for the first asset to perform an installation of the first asset; receiving the worksheet data comprising responses to the prompts on the mobile computing device; synchronizing the worksheet data with a server, wherein the synchronizing includes: sending a file index over a wireless network before any of the worksheet data is transmitted over the wireless network from the mobile computing device to a server; parsing with the server each file index received from the wireless network; cross-referencing each indexed file with the server against a list of files stored at the server and received previously from the mobile computing device; instructing the mobile computing device to send only files that have not been received previously by the server; and uploading files that have not been previously received by the server, including the worksheet data, from the mobile computing device to the server; repeating the above steps for each of the remainder of the plurality of assets; and evaluating the worksheet data for each of the plurality of assets and generating a report based on the evaluating, wherein the report includes a summary chart that indicates, for ones of the plurality of assets, the responses comprising positive and negative values that assist in determining whether or not a particular component of the asset is needed and whether or not installation of the asset is complete and working.