Patents by Inventor Alan Harrison Keefer

Alan Harrison Keefer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11900472
    Abstract: An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Guidewire Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Publication number: 20210390626
    Abstract: An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Patent number: 11080790
    Abstract: An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Guidewire Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Patent number: 9984415
    Abstract: An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Guidewire Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Publication number: 20110307278
    Abstract: Managing insurance information includes obtaining account information associated with an insurance account, selectively indicating a first portion of the account information that includes versioned information and a second portion of the account information that includes non-versioned information, obtaining policy information of an insurance policy associated with the insurance account, including copying at least some of the versioned information as a first portion of the insurance policy, and establishing a link between at least some of the non-versioned information and a second portion of the insurance policy. The second portion of the insurance policy that is linked with the non-versioned information is automatically updated to reflect changes to the non-versioned information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Geoffrey Clarke, Stephen J. Bassett, Michael Kuang-Chung Yang, Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Publication number: 20110071859
    Abstract: An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Publication number: 20110071858
    Abstract: An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Guidewire Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer
  • Publication number: 20090144067
    Abstract: A computer-based processing system for use in controlling access to liability exposure data contains input received from an end user. The end user declares a plurality of exposure security levels that are associated with particular liability exposure data. A permission is declared for a user and the permission is mapped to the exposure security level. Upon an attempt to access the particular liability exposure data, the system then automatically verifies whether the user attempting to access the data has the permission required to access the exposure security level correlating to the particular liability exposure data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Harrison Keefer