Patents by Inventor Sandra Stoker

Sandra Stoker 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: 8700515
    Abstract: A security-to-entity crosswalk system and method link business entity information to financial security information to provide risk insight about the business entity associated with a given security. The system comprises a collection of financial securities data, a collection of business entity data, and an integration component. The integration component links the collection of financial securities data with the collection of business entity data into a collection of master data. A business entity identifier is appended to an issuing entity in a collection of data. The business entity identifier is linked to a financial security identifier in the collection of data. Business information associated with said issuing entity is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., Standard & Poor's, Telekurs, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan L. Duckworth, William A. Fritz, Craig Albert, Jeffery F. Brill, Richard A. Fersch, Vicki P. Raeburn, Sandra Stoker, Scott J. Preiss, Maria Madeline Latorraca, James D. Taylor, Barry Scott Raskin, Sara Banerjee
  • Patent number: 8285616
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for providing a credit evaluation report, the method comprising: searching a reference file of entities; identifying an entity of interest; determining user specified rules or criteria; selecting at least one relevant trade experience from a database of trade experiences for the entity of interest based upon the user specified rules or criteria, records for comparison to the relevant trade experience, and/or peer groups; and generating the credit evaluation report of the entity of interest based upon the relevant trade experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Bahnck, Jr., Monica Larue, Andrew Blumetti, Linda Rose, Brian Crigler, Sandra Stoker
  • Patent number: 8036907
    Abstract: A corporate linkage system and method provides customers with complete, accurate, and timely lists of corporate linkage locations, including monitoring company lists for changes to location lists, matching stored locations to a company or third party list of locations, providing detailed coding on matches, and batch updates to global files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Davies, Sandra Stoker
  • Publication number: 20110087573
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for providing a credit evaluation report, the method comprising: searching a reference file of entities; identifying an entity of interest; determining user specified rules or criteria; selecting at least one relevant trade experience from a database of trade experiences for the entity of interest based upon the user specified rules or criteria, records for comparison to the relevant trade experience, and/or peer groups; and generating the credit evaluation report of the entity of interest based upon the relevant trade experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: NORMAN BAHNCK, Monica Larue, Andrew Blumetti, Linda Rose, Brian Crigler, Sandra Stoker
  • Publication number: 20060004595
    Abstract: A data integration method involves a unique method of collecting raw business data and processing it to produce highly useful and highly accurate information to enable business decisions. This process includes collecting global data, entity matching, applying an identification number, performing corporate linkage, and providing predictive indicators. These process steps work in series to filter and organize the raw business data and provide quality information to customers. In addition, the information is enhanced by quality assurance at each step in this process to ensure the high quality of the resulting data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Jan Rowland, Robin Davies, Michael Prevoznak, Charles Benke, Ahmad Sharif, Sandra Stoker, Robert Porreca, Eric Gustafson
  • Publication number: 20050137899
    Abstract: A corporate linkage system and method provides customers with complete, accurate, and timely lists of corporate linkage locations, including monitoring company lists for changes to location lists, matching stored locations to a company or third party list of locations, providing detailed coding on matches, and batch updates to global files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Robin Davies, Sandra Stoker
  • Publication number: 20050010513
    Abstract: A security-to-entity crosswalk system and method link business entity information to financial security information to provide risk insight about the business entity associated with a given security. The system comprises a collection of financial securities data, a collection of business entity data, and an integration component. The integration component links the collection of financial securities data with the collection of business entity data into a collection of master data. A business entity identifier is appended to an issuing entity in a collection of data. The business entity identifier is linked to a financial security identifier in the collection of data. Business information associated with said issuing entity is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Alan Duckworth, William Fritz, Craig Albert, Jeffery Brill, Richard Fersch, Vicki Raeburn, Sandra Stoker, Scott Preiss, Maria Latorraca, James Taylor, Barry Raskin, Sara Banerjee