Patent Document ID: 8126840
Application ID: 11876544

Base Claim:
1. A system for scheduling a plurality of selected user performable maintenance tasks, comprising: one or more storage media storing data indicative of a plurality of maintenance points, a plurality of task templates, and a plurality of maintenance task definitions as associations between maintenance points and task templates, two or more maintenance points having a plurality of maintenance point parameters and are each associated with at least one task template having a plurality of task parameters, such that upon any of the two or more maintenance task definitions being accessed, such maintenance task definition is dynamically generated from the plurality of maintenance point parameters of the at least one maintenance point and from the plurality of task parameters of the at least one task template; a processor selectively applying one or more queries to the stored data to generate a user perceivable assignment including one or more selected user performable maintenance tasks, the one or more queries having a plurality of filter criteria and a plurality of logical relationships defined between the filter criteria to selectively include maintenance task definitions matching the one or more queries and exclude maintenance task definitions not matching the one or more queries; and at least one means for outputting the assignment to a user, in a user perceivable format.

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Claim 5:
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more queries includes a virtual hierarchy.