departments are grouped into one of three areas manufactured items jewelry and system services such as home and automobile alarm systems and the like in describing the asset to be registered the asset owner selects from a series of predefined identifiers presented on the system 10 registration database 40 screen which are arranged from the top down in the adcs hierarchy the asset owner first selects the appropriate item area for the particular asset to be registered then the asset 39 s department and finally the more detailed asset information regarding class and style for example suppose that an asset owner applies online to register in the registration database 40 a common manufactured item such as a sony kd 34xs955 34 inch widescreen fd trinitron hdtv television in describing the asset the asset owner will select the area u201c manufactured good u201d the department u201c consumer electronics u201d the class u201c television u201d and the style u201c conventional widescreen television u201d at this point the asset owner will be prompted to select a manufacturer from a predefined list exclusively containing conventional widescreen television manufacturers the asset owner will then select television manufacturer u201c sony corporation u201d from the list all model numbers for sony widescreen televisions will then be generated one of which will be the kd 34xs955 model.