Patent ID: 8065342

Claim:
A method, said method comprising: one or more servers receiving a message from a remote device attached to a mobile physical asset that is remote from the one or more servers, wherein said message comprises data describing a status of the mobile physical asset and a location of the mobile physical asset; one of the one or more servers analyzing said data using a set of rules, wherein said analyzing comprises performing a maintenance analysis with respect to maintenance of the mobile physical asset, wherein said performing said maintenance analysis comprises analyzing said data using a set of asset maintenance rules for the mobile physical asset and a set of asset usage rules for the mobile physical asset; and responsive to said analyzing said data using said set of rules, sending an alert, wherein the alert specifies a maintenance activity to be performed on the mobile physical asset, wherein said alert is associated in one of said one or more servers with a quote for said maintenance activity, said quote lists one or more replacement parts required to perform a task associated to said alert, and said quote indicates one or more labor types required to perform said task associated to said alert.