Patents Assigned to Accenture Global Services GmbH
  • Patent number: 7765176
    Abstract: A knowledge model discovery system is configured to provide an interactive view having simultaneously displayed sub-views that include a relational data element view and a geophysical view. Using the interactive view, a user may perform search and analysis of information organized with a knowledge management tool in conjunction with geographic information. The relational data element view may provide a relational visualization that displays data elements provided with the knowledge management tool as narrowed by the context of a user analysis. The geophysical view may provide a geographically based depiction of the same data elements using a similar context. The relational data element view and the geophysical view may be operated in coordination to maintain cohesiveness and similar context of the information displayed in the views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Hillery D. Simmons, Rhazes Spell, Emil Robert Martinsek, Karoline Evans, Daniel R. Madigan, Ryan Matthew LaSalle
  • Publication number: 20100185712
    Abstract: An analysis tool guides the selection of an external agent who will interact with a selected organizational actor. The analysis tool helps to minimize mismatches in personality and behavior between the external agents and actors in the business. As a result, there are fewer misunderstandings about project scope and requirements, there is better communication between individuals, and valuable deals are more frequently closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Mark K. Hawn, Henry E. McIntosh, Laurie L. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20100185947
    Abstract: A system for distributed information processing and interaction includes a plurality of output devices arranged to produce a respective output portion of a system output, a plurality of application processors and a state server in data communication with the plurality of application processors. Each respective output portion is defined by context information. Each application processor is configured to process one or more respective application programs and is responsive to the context information. Each application processor is coupled with an associated respective output device for controlling the output device in producing the respective output portion. The state server provides the context information to the plurality of application processors. The architecture is extended to a more general system in which output devices produce a variety of outputs including device actuations, as well as video displays, and receive a variety of inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Kelly L. Dempski, Brandon L. Harvey
  • Patent number: 7761548
    Abstract: A method and system for providing efficient and flexible techniques for modeling technical and economic benefits of consolidating information technology (IT) systems, hardware, software, network, and other infrastructure are described. The system includes a data processing system configured to receive data from a user. The system also includes an input collection system communicatively coupled to the data processing system, with the input collection system designed to organize, convert, and sort the data to generate baseline server information. In addition, the system includes an optimization system communicatively coupled to the data processing system, with the optimization system designed to generate one or more server consolidation models based on the baseline server information. Further, based on the generated one or more server consolidation models, a recommendation can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Marc E. Snyder, Richard M. Melnicoff, Bogdan Konsur, Jessica Long, Charles Heo, Timothy Bainter, James Steele, Edward M. Schall
  • Patent number: 7761784
    Abstract: A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructions for indicating the data sources and how the data sources should be queried. The processing instructions may also indicate how the data is to be grouped across various slides, pages, sections, etc. The generator may build the presentation based on the template, its tags, and its processing instructions. The resulting presentation may be accessed by a user-friendly application, such as a word processor, slide program, spreadsheet, report viewer, or other application. The user may update part or all of the presentation using information on the queries and data sources embedded in the presentation itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Michael T. Parks, Steven B. Petchon
  • Publication number: 20100179780
    Abstract: A method for determining a primary side voltage of a distribution transformer includes determining a first current and a second current flowing through a secondary winding of the transformer at a plurality of time instants based on current meter data generated by a plurality of metered loads. The method may include determining a total current flowing to the plurality of metered loads for each of the plurality of time instants based on the first current and the second current. The method includes receiving a respective meter voltage from each of the plurality of metered loads at each of the plurality of time instants. The method includes determining a secondary side voltage of the transformer at each of the plurality of time instants based on the first, second, and total current and the respective meter voltages. The method includes determining the primary side voltage based on the secondary side voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Taft
  • Publication number: 20100179779
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a first sensor positioned at a first location along a phase conductor line and a second sensor position at a second location along the phase conductor line. The first sensor is configured to generate a first set of synchrophasor data. The second sensor is configured to generate a second set of synchrophasor data. The monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive the first and second sets of synchrophasor data. The processor is further configured to determine a primary side voltage of at least one distribution transformer electrically connected to the phase conductor line based on a secondary side voltage of the at least one distribution transformer. The processor is further configured to determine at least one phase conductor line condition based on the first and second sets of synchrophasor data and the primary side voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Taft
  • Patent number: 7752094
    Abstract: A data processing system provides a tax scorecard that displays one or more scorecard windows dedicated to a specific tax perspective. Each tax perspective may have at least one corresponding tax objective, and each tax objective may have at least one corresponding tax key performance indicator. The tax perspectives may be directed toward gathering, monitoring, and analyzing tax data, financial data, and employee opinion data and monitoring business processes. Each scorecard may include drill down capability from a top level analysis to more detailed information related to a tax perspective, objective, or key performance indicator. The key performance indicators may be directed toward monitoring effective tax rates, tax budgets, income before taxes, rating agency liquidity ratios, active or completed business processes, documents contributed or accessed, cross-functional collaboration, allocation of time, communication, performance feedback, professional growth, or other data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: David A. Davidson, Scott P. Elsky, William A. Parkan
  • Patent number: 7752119
    Abstract: An auction analysis system predicts auction results. The analysis system may determine item, seller, or auction characteristics from prior or pending auctions. The analysis system also obtains item characteristics of an item for which a result prediction is sought, either by a buyer or by a seller. A price predictor in the system accepts the auction and item characteristics and predicts an auction result based on the characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Rayid Ghani, Hillery D. Simmons
  • Patent number: 7752093
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for processing a sales transaction, an un-audited sales transaction is received from a sale generator, and temporarily stored in a memory location and forwarded to a transaction auditor to audit the sales transaction and to a plurality of backend processors to begin processing the sales transaction. An audited sales transaction is received from the transaction auditor, where the audited sales transaction is an audited version of the un-audited sales transaction. The audited sales transaction is correlated with the un-audited sales transaction using the temporarily stored un-audited sales transaction, and a resultant sales transaction that includes information from the audited sales transaction is generated. The resultant sales transaction is transmitted to the plurality of backend processors to continue processing the sales transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Christopher Allan Capadouca
  • Patent number: 7752120
    Abstract: A system determines insurance parameters for insuring online auctions. The insurance parameters may be based on predicted auction results. An insurance policy reflecting the insurance parameters may be offered to an online auction buyer, seller, or other market participant. The insurance policy may insure, for example, that an item for sale will obtain at least a price specified by the insurance policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Rayid Ghani
  • Publication number: 20100169332
    Abstract: The invention concerns a data anonymity measuring device for selectively transmitting an anonymised database to a third party comprising: calculation means (402) coupled to at least one memory, the memory storing an original database (204) and said anonymized database (206), said calculation means arranged to calculate the conditional entropy for each entry in said anonymized database based on entries in said original database; comparing means (406) arranged to compare at least one of said conditional entropies with a threshold value; and output means (410) arranged to transmit said anonymized database based on the result of said comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Michele Bezzi
  • Publication number: 20100161818
    Abstract: An enhanced content sharing framework, in which a presence table indexing content globally stored on a respective home network, and policy information identifying users who are authorized to access the respective home network are received from first and second home network manager devices that respectively manage first and second home networks that each comprises one or more content rendering devices and content storing devices. A message is received from a user requesting that particular content be provided from the first home network to a particular content rendering device or content storing device of the second home network. Based on the presence table of the first home network, it is determined that the particular content is stored on the first home network, and, based on the policy information of the first home network, it is determined that the user is authorized to access the particular content on the first home network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Giuseppe Capuozzo, Marco Borghini
  • Publication number: 20100162402
    Abstract: Privacy is defined in the context of a guessing game based on the so-called guessing inequality. The privacy of a sanitized record, i.e., guessing anonymity, is defined by the number of guesses an attacker needs to correctly guess an original record used to generate a sanitized record. Using this definition, optimization problems are formulated that optimize a second anonymization parameter (privacy or data distortion) given constraints on a first anonymization parameter (data distortion or privacy, respectively). Optimization is performed across a spectrum of possible values for at least one noise parameter within a noise model. Noise is then generated based on the noise parameter value(s) and applied to the data, which may comprise real and/or categorical data. Prior to anonymization, the data may have identifiers suppressed, whereas outlier data values in the noise perturbed data may be likewise modified to further ensure privacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Yaron Rachlin, Katherine Probst, Rayid Ghani
  • Publication number: 20100152910
    Abstract: An outage intelligence application receives event messages indicative of occurrences associated with various devices within a power grid. The outage intelligence application determines a state of the various devices based on the event messages. Based on the event messages, the outage intelligence application can determine can determine and confirm an outage condition associate with a particular device. A fault intelligence application receives synchrophasor data for each phase in a multi-phase power grid. The synchrophasor includes phasor magnitude and phasor angle information for each phased. Based on the synchrophasor data, the fault intelligence application determines the presence of a fault involving one or more of the phases and identifies a particular fault type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Taft
  • Publication number: 20100153441
    Abstract: Methods for efficiently publishing electronic versions of traditionally paper-based government forms and utilizing the electronic forms for web-based transactional services are disclosed. Standard paper-based government forms are automatically converted to XML format, including data fields for entry of information by customers. Multiple electronic forms are accessible to the customer at a single access point, such as a web site. At the web site, the customer selects a form for filing with any of a plurality of government agencies. When presented to the customer, the selected form is presented with some of its data fields being pre-populated according to information retrieved from a database and specific to that customer. The customer completes the form, and a back-end system integrated with the web site handles the completed form, determines the appropriate government agency for filing the form, and transmits it as a transaction to the determined government agency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services, GMBH
    Inventors: Iain Lopata, Andrew J. Pitman, Scott Gilliland, Robert Matles, San Retna
  • Publication number: 20100153187
    Abstract: Relative to a given product or products, one or more attributes and, for each attribute, a plurality of possible attribute values, are defined. For a given product and attribute, one or more descriptions of the product are obtained and analyzed to determine the correspondence of the description(s), and hence the product itself, to each of the plurality of possible attribute values. In one embodiment, this analysis is based on previously-labeled training data. A knowledge base can be populated with information identifying the products and their correspondence to the plurality of possible attribute values for each attribute. This technique may be used to develop a profile of an entity, which in turn may be used to develop appropriate marketing messages or recommendations for other products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Rayid Ghani, Andrew E. Fano
  • Patent number: 7739085
    Abstract: A Monte Carlo simulation is performed based on a simulation model comprising a plurality of input variables and at least one output variable. The Monte Carlo simulation generates a large number of scenarios, each comprising random input values and resulting output values for the input and output variables. The input and output values for each scenario are stored in a suitable storage component. A plurality of icons, uniquely corresponding to and representative of at least a portion of the scenarios, are displayed in accordance with a displayed output variable. At least one of the displayed icons is selectable causing the underlying input and output values to be displayed. The icons may be displayed in a histogram form comprising a plurality of columns and, preferably, within each column, the corresponding icons may be sorted according to similarity of the input values for each icon to a plurality of target input values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Edward J. Gottsman
  • Patent number: 7739657
    Abstract: A robust toolkit provides facilities that can be assembled in a modular manner to specify the fundamental architecture of a net-centric application. A bootstrapping process assembles various facilities within the architecture. A configuration facility defines an API for getting properties that can be defined in any number of different types of sources. A factory de-couples how a resource is produced from where the resource is used. A selector framework applies standard query language to contexts other than querying a database. A pipeline architecture defines a model view controller-like framework for a processing pipeline. Selectors are used to specify when certain portions of a Web conversation should be made available to a user. An authorization facility associates permissions with a user to specify which portions of an application a user is authorized to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Damon Michael Rolfs
  • Patent number: 7739129
    Abstract: A method may receive data comprising a request to assure payment for a transaction with a consumer, the transaction being associated with a provision of a service or a sale of a product. Thereafter, it may be determined whether payment of at least a portion of the transaction will be covered by a benefit plan associated with the consumer, and additionally, whether the consumer is able to pay for at least a portion of the transaction not covered by the benefit plan. Data is then transmitted authorizing the transaction if a predetermined amount of the transaction will be covered by at least one of the benefit plan or the consumer. Related apparatuses, computer program products, and computer systems are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher L. Sweetland, Loren E. McCaghy, Jr., Charles A. Nunn, Neville Q. Hamilton, Richard D. Cornelius