Patents by Inventor Paul Douglas BALLEW

Paul Douglas BALLEW 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: 10699335
    Abstract: A Total Loss Predictor Score assesses the risk of Total Loss of new credit applications by leveraging the most powerful insights from business databases. The Total Loss Predictor Score built on segmentation and algorithms that use the commercial information from business databases, powered by analytics, delivers a unique solution for credit risk management to help business creditors with origination decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Yuan, Paul Douglas Ballew, Nipa Basu, Jianjing Ling, Kathleen Wachholz, Alla Kramskaia, Brian Scott Crigler
  • Publication number: 20150356574
    Abstract: A system and a method for generating indicators of the financial health of a business provides data in a number of cases, including a situation where financial statement are publically available, and those where they are not publically available. Data records are analyzed in accordance with a first set of steps if publically available financial statements of the business are available; and in accordance with a second set of steps if publically available financial statements of the business are not available. When financial statements are not publically available, certain proxies provide data concerning a business. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program, which when executed by a computer system, results in performance of steps of the method. A method for developing a scorecard for data indicative of the financial health of a business is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Douglas BALLEW, Alla KRAMSKAIA, Joan KELLEHER, Robin DAVIES, Kevin F. CONLEY
  • Publication number: 20150178645
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) examining records that describe transactions between entities, (b) constructing, in a database, a data structure that represents a relationship network, based on the transactions, where the relationship network represents (i) a first entity and (ii) a second entity that is separated from the first entity by N tiers, and where N is a whole number greater than or equal to 1, and (c) calculating a relevance of the second entity to the first entity as a function of, i.e., based on, a characteristic of the second entity. There is also provided a system that performs the method, and a storage medium that contains instructions for controlling a processor to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Xin YUAN, Yan LIN, Paul Douglas BALLEW, Nipa BASU, Anjali REDDI, Robin Fry DAVIES, Alla KRAMSKAIA, Brian Scott CRIGLER, Guang YANG
  • Publication number: 20150149247
    Abstract: A method and system for determining an entity's future commercial viability which comprises: (a) using a first predictive modeling, determining a future commercial viability of the entity, the first predictive modeling is derived by identifying patterns in data and relating to predictive attributes, thereby generating a viability score; (b) using predictive modeling to generate a relative ranking of the entity against its peer group, thereby generating a comparative viability score (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alla KRAMSKAIA, Paul Douglas BALLEW, Nipa BASU, Michael Eric DANITZ, Jayesh SRIVASTAVA, Karolina Anna KIERZKOWSKI, Anthony James SCRIFFIGNANO, John Mark NICODEMO, Kathleen WACHHOLZ, Robin Fry DAVIES, Xin YUAN
  • Publication number: 20150142638
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes employing a computer to perform operations of (a) receiving, from a data source, by way of an electronic communication, a descriptor of a business, (b) matching said descriptor to data in a database, thus yielding a match, wherein said data includes a unique identifier of said business, (c) saving to a log, a signal that includes said unique identifier, (d) counting a quantity of signals that include said unique identifier in said log, thus yielding a number of said signals for said unique identifier, and (e) calculating a credit score for said business, based on said number of signals. There is also provided a system that performs the method, and a storage device that controls a processor to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alla KRAMSKAIA, Paul Douglas BALLEW, Nipa BASU, Michael Eric DANITZ, Brian Scott CRIGLER, Karolina Anna KIERZKOWSKI, John Mark NICODEMO, Xin YUAN, Don L. Folk
  • Publication number: 20140330706
    Abstract: A Total Loss Predictor Score assesses the risk of Total Loss of new credit applications by leveraging the most powerful insights from business databases. The Total Loss Predictor Score built on segmentation and algorithms that use the commercial information from business databases, powered by analytics, delivers a unique solution for credit risk management to help business creditors with origination decisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin YUAN, Paul Douglas BALLEW, Nipa BASU, Jianjing LING, Kathleen WACHHOLZ, ALLA KRAMSKAIA, Brian Scott CRIGLER