Patents by Inventor Stephen S. Trundle

Stephen S. Trundle 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: 8522192
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the performance of administrator tasks in performing changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users. The method includes the steps of generating a login dialog box to accept login information from an administrator; establishing a connection to at least one project source name; providing an outline to the administrator, the outline facilitating the creation and submission of command based instruction by providing syntax for a purpose, the outline being maintained in a predetermined folder; and providing a history feature to save a set instructions that were executed successfully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Microstrategy Incorporated
    Inventors: Rodolfo Avalos, Jeffrey A. Bedell, Scott Cappiello, Alejandro Freixas, Raul Gonzalez, William Hurwood, Benjamin Li, Wenfeng Li, Ningning Liu, Luis V. Orozco, Ramkumar Ramachandran, Michael J. Saylor, Stephen S. Trundle, Abhimanyu Warikoo
  • Patent number: 7861161
    Abstract: An report system that incorporates prompt objects in a report definition to enable a user to specify answers to questions to customize a reporting system (e.g., decision support system, business intelligence and OLAP) report at execution time. A prompt object contains a single question to be answered, validation values for the answer, and attributes indicating how the prompt object is to be processed. A report is thus defined by selecting prompt objects in place of templates, filters, or any of the aspects of a template or filter. As a separate object, a single prompt may be issued once and the answer supplied to each reference to the prompt object in a report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Microstrategy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bedell, Eduardo Carranza, L. Douglas Everhart, William Hurwood, Benjamin Z. Li, Ramkumar Ramachandran, David B. Sherwood, Stephen S. Trundle, Abhimanyu Warikoo
  • Patent number: 7801967
    Abstract: A method and system for implementing database connection mapping for mapping a user who may be associated with a group of users to an appropriate database via a database connection wherein the database connection comprises information for locating and logging into the appropriate database. A centralized server may control the access to databases, thereby ensuring efficient use of database resources. A user may log into a server and then be mapped to an appropriate database via a database name and login, provided by a database connection. Database connection mapping may provide the ability to map multiple users to the same database login as well as the ability to map different users to different database logins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Microstrategy, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bedell, Benjamin Z. Li, Luis V. Orozco, Stephen S. Trundle
  • Patent number: 7415438
    Abstract: A system for a personal intelligence network provides informational and transactional data. Data distribution servers provide e-mail and other messages of topical interest to a subset of the subscribers. The content may be generated by an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) based channel database system, and the output may also be communicated to individuals via spreadsheet programs data, pager, telephone, mobile phone, fax, personal digital assistants, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) e-mail and other formats, including a workbook file attachment. Reports generated may enable a subscriber to act upon the content within the report, thereby providing an interactive component to the report. Subscriber actions or inaction to the report and content may be obtained and analyzed, including analysis in connection with the other informational and transactional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Microstrategy, Incorporated
    Inventors: Terry Berman, Ilia Baskine, Hu Yu, Vladislav Davidovich Lazebnikov, Michael J. Saylor, Sanjeev K. Bansal, Stephen S. Trundle, Jeffrey A. Bedell, Benjamin Z. Li, Abhimanyu Warikoo
  • Patent number: 6888929
    Abstract: A system and method for generating revenue from providing pages of voice content when users input a voice code corresponding to that content. Voice codes (“VCodes”) have content stored corresponding thereto and when users view publicly displayed VCodes in proximity to an object, attraction or subject, the users may selectively access the stored content via telephone by calling a central number and entering the VCode or verbally describing the object, attraction or subject, in which case the verbal description is associated with a VCode or collection of VCodes. A fee is collected based on the information retrieved and may be distributed between participants within the voice network access provider system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: MicroStrategy, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Saylor, Stephen S. Trundle, Anurag Patnaik, David A. Garr, Benjamin M. Lindsey, Josh Mahowald, Zeynep Inanoglu
  • Patent number: 6859798
    Abstract: An intelligence server for a reporting system is disclosed. The reporting system may include a report initiation module, such as a user engine or calling application, for generating a request for a report. The intelligence server includes a server layer for receiving the generated request and for coordinating a flow of a processing of the received request; an application logic layer which includes business intelligence rules used for generating the report; and an analytical layer, in communication with the user engine and the server layer, for receiving the request to be processed from the server layer, transmitting the processed request to one or more data storage devices, and for extracting data from the data storage devices responsive to the transmitted request. The extracted data is then processed by the applications in the application logic layer to generate the report and the processing is independent of a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: MicroStrategy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bedell, Benjamin Z. Li, Luis V. Orozco, Ramkumar Ramachandran, Michael J. Saylor, Stephen S. Trundle
  • Patent number: 6792086
    Abstract: A system and method for creating voice codes (“VCodes”), storing content corresponding to the VCodes, publicly displaying the VCodes in proximity to an object, attraction or subject, and enabling users to selectively access the stored content via telephone by calling a central number and entering the VCode or verbally describing the object, attraction or subject, in which case the verbal description is associated with a VCode or collection of VCodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: MicroStrategy, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Saylor, Stephen S. Trundle, Anurag Patnaik, David A. Garr, Benjamin M. Lindsey, Josh Mahowald, Zeynep Inanoglu
  • Patent number: 6707889
    Abstract: A system and method in which multiple voice network access provider (“VNAP”) systems cooperate to enable output of voice pages based on input of a voice code (“VCodes”) assigned to the voice pages. Each multiple voice network access provider enables user to access content corresponding to the VCodes publicly displayed in proximity to an object, attraction or subject, by calling a central number for that VNAP and entering the VCode or verbally describing the object, attraction or subject, in which case the verbal description is associated with a VCode or collection of VCodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Microstrategy Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael J. Saylor, Stephen S. Trundle, Anurag Patnaik, David A. Garr, Benjamin M. Lindsey, Josh Mahowald, Zeynep Inanoglu
  • Patent number: 6501832
    Abstract: A system and method for registering voice codes (“VCodes”) associated with stored content corresponding to the VCodes, wherein the VCode may be used to access the stored content via telephone by calling a central number and entering the VCode or verbally describing the object, attraction or subject, in which case the verbal description is associated with a VCode or collection of VCodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Microstrategy, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Saylor, Stephen S. Trundle, Anurag Patnaik, David A. Garr, Benjamin M. Lindsey, Josh Mahowald, Zeynep Inanoglu