Patents by Inventor Bhakti Vithalani

Bhakti Vithalani 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).

  • Method and system for sales-credit assignment via time-based organization hierarchies
    Patent number: 8600799
    Abstract: A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing instances of time-based organization hierarchies, and for assigning sales credit to corresponding positions within the time-based organization hierarchy in response to a sales data input are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may define and/or manage one or more instances of the time-based organization hierarchy via a user interface generated on a client. Moreover, and in response to the sales data input corresponding to a transaction, a sales credit assignment process may then be executed to assign sales credit to one or more positions within the instance of the time-based organization hierarchy based on an evaluation of conditions specified in one or more identified assignment rules associated with the time-based organization hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel T. Chang, Alexander Goldstein, Ashish Singhal, Pankaj Bhatia, Bhakti Vithalani, Pasan Rukmal Sirisena, Steve Apfelberg, Marc Verbeek, Tarri Furlong, Ashley Stirrup, Ajay Sabhlok, Martin Renaud
  • Method and system for sales-credit assignment via time-based organization hierarchies
    Publication number: 20070226027
    Abstract: A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing instances of time-based organization hierarchies, and for assigning sales credit to corresponding positions within the time-based organization hierarchy in response to a sales data input are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may define and/or manage one or more instances of the time-based organization hierarchy via a user interface generated on a client. Moreover, and in response to the sales data input corresponding to a transaction, a sales credit assignment process may then be executed to assign sales credit to one or more positions within the instance of the time-based organization hierarchy based on an evaluation of conditions specified in one or more identified assignment rules associated with the time-based organization hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Chang, Alexander Goldstein, Ashish Singhal, Pankaj Bhatia, Bhakti Vithalani, Pasan Sirisena, Steve Apfelberg, Marc Verbeek, Tarri Furlong, Ashley Stirrup, Ajay Sabhlok, Martin Renaud