US Patent 11210278 Asset group interface driven by search-derived asset tree hierarchy

An asset monitoring and reporting system (AMRS) implements an interface to establish an asset hierarchy to be monitored and reported against. The interface employs a search query of extant asset data from which definitional aspects of the asset hierarchy can be identified, and therefrom the interface automatically determines control information reflective of the asset hierarchy to direct the ongoing operation of the AMRS. The interface further receives an identification of one or more asset nodes of an asset hierarchy for inclusion in an asset group, receives an identification of a group metric definition of a group metric of the asset group, and reflects in computer storage an asset group definition comprising an association of each of the one or more asset nodes and an association of the group metric definition.