Patents by Inventor Eric D. Dusker

Eric D. Dusker 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).

  • Report specification generators and interfaces
    Patent number: 7293031
    Abstract: Report specification generators, interfaces, and methods are provided. Existing specification objects are selected from a data store. New specification objects are created as shell specification objects. Moreover, computations are selected from the data store. The specification objects, the shell specification objects, and the computations are organized within a grid. In one embodiment, the grid is used to generate a template report schema. In another embodiment, a preview tool populates the grid with report data in order to present a preview.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: NCR Corp.
    Inventors: Eric D. Dusker, Sreedhar Srikant, Karen A. Papierniak, Paul Cereghini