Patents by Inventor David Estornell

David Estornell 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).

  • Systems and methods for recommending business decisions utilizing weather driven demand data and opportunity and confidence measures
    Patent number: 7184965
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate business recommendations for specific business actions based on weather element forecasts and known relationships between a business activity and weather elements are provided. The system includes a confidence level filter, an opportunity matrix filter, a weather decision point generator, a business rule recommendation engine and a business rule knowledge database. Methods to generate a business recommendation for a business activity are also provided. The methods include receiving weather driven demand data, assigning opportunity measures to each of the data points, identifying weather decision points based on opportunity measures, and applying business weather rules to the weather decision points to generate business recommendations. In a further feature, a weather element relationship and/or a weather element forecast confidence level is assigned to each data point within the weather driven demand data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Planalytics, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederic Fox, Mike Kowa, Michael Willen, Paul Walsh, Doug Pearson, David Estornell
  • Systems and methods for recommending business decisions influenced by weather elements
    Publication number: 20050096947
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate business recommendations for specific business actions based on weather element forecasts and known relationships between a business activity and weather elements are provided. The system includes a confidence level filter, an opportunity matrix filter, a weather decision point generator, a business rule recommendation engine and a business rule knowledge database. Methods to generate a business recommendation for a business activity are also provided. The methods include receiving weather driven demand data, assigning opportunity measures to each of the data points, identifying weather decision points based on opportunity measures, and applying business weather rules to the weather decision points to generate business recommendations. In a further feature, a weather element relationship and/or a weather element forecast confidence level is assigned to each data point within the weather driven demand data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Frederic Fox, Mike Kowa, Michael Willen, Paul Walsh, Doug Pearson, David Estornell