Digital twin exchange filtering of digital resources based on owned assets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11983755-B2
Application number	US-202117462637-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2021
Priority date	Aug 31, 2021
Publication date	May 14, 2024
Grant date	May 14, 2024

Abstract

An approach is provided that gathers customer metadata that pertains to the customer's physical assets. This metadata is compared to digital twin metadata that is stored in a digital twin marketplace. Results of the comparison are displayed on the display. The customer makes a selection from the display of one a digital twin template that matches one of the customer's physical assets. The customer then uses the selected digital twin to monitor the matched customer physical asset.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, implemented by an information handling system comprising a processor, a memory accessible by the processor, and a display accessible by the processor, the method comprising:
gathering customer metadata pertaining to a plurality of customer physical assets, the gathering performed by:
scanning wireless signals from the customer physical assets that are within range of a customer wireless scanner; and
receiving the metadata from the first customer physical asset via the wireless signals;

comparing the customer metadata to a plurality of digital twin metadata stored in a digital twin marketplace, wherein the customer metadata includes an age of the customer physical asset and an operating history of the customer physical asset;
displaying a result of the comparison on the display;
receiving a selection, from the displayed results, of a digital twin template that matches one of the customer's physical assets;
connecting the selected digital twin template, wherein the connection provides a plurality of data feeds, that include at least one Internet-of-Things (IOT) data feed, from the matched customer physical assets to the connected selected digital twin template; and
monitoring using the selected digital twin to monitor the matched customer physical asset, wherein the monitoring monitors usage of the matched customer asset.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the gathering of customer metadata further comprises:
retrieving a set of metadata from one or more data stores wherein at least one of the data stores is selected from a group consisting of a work order history, a purchase history, and an enterprise asset management store.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the comparing further comprises:
matching the customer metadata of a model identifier corresponding to a first customer physical asset with the plurality of digital twin metadata, the result of the matching being a plurality of high-level matches; and
comparing the plurality of high-level matches with a set of actual usage data corresponding to the first customer physical asset, the result of the comparing being the digital twin template that matches the first customer physical asset.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:
adjusting one or more digital twin template parameters with data that mimics one or more characteristics of the matching first customer physical asset.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying further comprises:
matching the customer metadata of a model identifier corresponding to each of the customer physical assets with the plurality of digital twin metadata, the result of the matching being a plurality of high-level matches;
comparing the plurality of high-level matches with a set of actual usage data corresponding to each of the customer physical assets; and
displaying the plurality of high-level matching, wherein the displaying further highlights the customer physical assets based on the comparison with the set of actual usage data.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying further comprises:
filtering the plurality of digital twin templates based on the results of the comparing so that the one or more customer metadata that matches one or more of the digital twin metadata are displayed; and
inhibiting display of the digital twin metadata that fail to match at least one of the one or more customer metadata.

7. An information handling system comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
a display accessible by at least one of the processors; and
a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions comprising:
gathering customer metadata pertaining to a plurality of customer physical assets, the gathering performed by:
scanning wireless signals from the customer physical assets that are within range of a customer wireless scanner; and
receiving the metadata from the first customer physical asset via the wireless signals;

comparing the customer metadata to a plurality of digital twin metadata stored in a digital twin marketplace, wherein the customer metadata includes an age of the customer physical asset and an operating history of the customer physical asset;
displaying a result of the comparison on the display;
receiving a selection, from the displayed results, of a digital twin template that matches one of the customer's physical assets;
connecting the selected digital twin template, wherein the connection provides a plurality of data feeds, that include at least one Internet-of-Things (IOT) data feed, from the matched customer physical assets to the connected selected digital twin template; and

monitoring using the selected digital twin to monitor the matched customer physical asset, wherein the monitoring monitors usage of the matched customer asset.

8. The information handing system of claim 7 wherein the gathering of customer metadata further comprises:
retrieving a set of metadata from one or more data stores wherein at least one of the data stores is selected from a group consisting of a work order history, a purchase history, and an enterprise asset management store.

9. The information handing system of claim 7 wherein the comparing further comprises:
matching the customer metadata of a model identifier corresponding to a first customer physical asset with the plurality of digital twin metadata, the result of the matching being a plurality of high-level matches; and
comparing the plurality of high-level matches with a set of actual usage data corresponding to the first customer physical asset, the result of the comparing being the digital twin template that matches the first customer physical asset.

10. The information handing system of claim 9 wherein the actions further comprise:
adjusting one or more digital twin template parameters with data that mimics one or more characteristics of the matching first customer physical asset.

11. The information handing system of claim 7 wherein the displaying further comprises:
matching the customer metadata of a model identifier corresponding to each of the customer physical assets with the plurality of digital twin metadata, the result of the matching being a plurality of high-level matches;
comparing the plurality of high-level matches with a set of actual usage data corresponding to each of the customer physical assets; and
displaying the plurality of high-level matching, wherein the displaying further highlights the customer physical assets based on the comparison with the set of actual usage data.

12. The information handing system of claim 7 wherein the displaying further comprises:
filtering the plurality of digital twin templates based on the results of the comparing so that the one or more customer metadata that matches one or more of the digital twin metadata are displayed; and
inhibiting display of the digital twin metadata that fail to match at least one of the one or more customer metadata.

13. A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, executes instructions that perform actions comprising:
gathering customer metadata pertaining to a plurality of customer physical assets, the gathering performed by:
scanning wireless signals from the customer physical assets that are within range of a customer wireless scanner; and
receiving the metadata from the first customer physical asset via the wireless signals;

comparing the customer metadata to a plurality of digit

Assignees

• IBM
• Int Busi Corporation Ess Machines

Inventors

• Deluca Lisa Seacat
• Fox Jeremy R
• Silverstein Zachary A

Classifications

• G06Q30/01

  Customer relationship services · CPC title

• G06Q30/0623 Primary

  by investigating goods or services · CPC title

• G06F16/907

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06Q10/0639

  Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations · CPC title