Patents by Inventor Edward Hester

Edward Hester 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).

  • Publication number: 20120191494
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for determining the cost of poor quality of an incident within a business. One way to measure costs associated with an incident is by measuring failed customer interactions (“FCIs”). FCIs are defined as incidents that occur within the business that either directly or indirectly affect a customer's ability to use a product or service offered by the business. In most situations an FCI relates to a failed interaction between the business and the customer through a channel that affected the customer's use of a product or service through the channel. The cost of poor quality application calculates the total cost of an incident through a multifaceted valuation that factors in hard metrics, such as but not limited to actual costs, duration, channel costs, FCI severity, etc. in order to calculate a remediation cost, a channel FCI cost, and a reputation cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Scott Heiman, Denise Irene Dahlke, Robert Henry Ferguson, II, Ralph Edward Hester, Brian I. Rubin
  • Publication number: 20120191503
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for determining the cost of poor quality of an incident within a business. One way to measure costs associated with an incident is by measuring failed customer interactions (“FCIs”). FCIs are defined as incidents that occur within the business that either directly or indirectly affect a customer's ability to use a product or service offered by the business. In most situations an FCI relates to a failed interaction between the business and the customer through a channel that affected the customer's use of a product or service through the channel. The cost of poor quality application calculates the total cost of an incident through a multifaceted valuation that factors in hard metrics, such as but not limited to actual costs, duration, channel costs, FCI severity, etc. in order to calculate a remediation cost, a channel FCI cost, and a reputation cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Scott Heiman, Denise Irene Dahlke, Robert Henry Ferguson, II, Ralph Edward Hester, Brian I. Rubin
  • Patent number: D644877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Inventors: Edward Hester, Andrea Burnes