Patents by Inventor James Elden Nicholson

James Elden Nicholson 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: 8589165
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and system for converting a free text expression of an identity to a phonetic equivalent code. The conversion follows a set of rules based on phonetic groupings and compresses the expression to a shorter series of characters than the expression. The phonetic equivalent code may be compared to one or more other phonetic equivalent code to establish a correlation between the codes. The phonetic equivalent code of the free text expression may be associated with the code of a known identity. The known identity may be provided to a user for confirmation of the identity. Further, a plurality of expressions stored in a database may be consolidated by converting the expressions to phonetic equivalent codes, comparing the codes to find correlations, and if appropriate reducing the number of expressions or mapping the expressions to a fewer number of expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Gregory Brian Meyer, James Elden Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8135658
    Abstract: Decision software implements a decision process that handles and decides a request from a requestor in a generally automated manner. The decision software denies the request according to a predefined standard. Information relating to the request and the denial decision is stored as a quote, and it is determined that further consideration of the denial decision by a human reviewer of the organization is desired. The human reviewer is contacted and retrieves the stored quote by way of an actuated interface that presents the quote as a focused screen including information from the quote and a determination entry device. The human interviewer determines based at least in part on the focused screen whether to over-ride the denial decision and enters such determination into the determination entry device. The entered determination is stored with the stored quote and the request proceeds in accordance with the stored determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Christopher J. Watkins, Sr., Vance E. Rankin, James Elden Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8103506
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and system for converting a free text expression of an identity to a phonetic equivalent code. The conversion follows a set of rules based on phonetic groupings and compresses the expression to a shorter series of characters than the expression. The phonetic equivalent code may be compared to one or more other phonetic equivalent code to establish a correlation between the codes. The phonetic equivalent code of the free text expression may be associated with the code of a known identity. The known identity may be provided to a user for confirmation of the identity. Further, a plurality of expressions stored in a database may be consolidated by converting the expressions to phonetic equivalent codes, comparing the codes to find correlations, and if appropriate reducing the number of expressions or mapping the expressions to a fewer number of expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Gregory Brian Meyer, James Elden Nicholson