Patents Assigned to Accenture
  • Patent number: 8156533
    Abstract: A media transmission system and method for the transmission of a desired one of a plurality of broadcast media channels to a remote client over a data connection is disclosed. The system includes means for routing data for a first one of the broadcast media channels over the data connection to the remote client and means for routing data for an alternate one of the channels over the data connection following receipt of a channel change request from a user; this allows efficient use of a limited bandwidth data connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Crichton
  • Patent number: 8155393
    Abstract: Biographic data associated with a user is received. Biometric data associated with the user is also received. External data associated with the biographic data and the biometric data is received and a determination is made as to a level of access to grant the user based on the external data. One or more settings associated with a smartcard are configured based on the level of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Mellen, Paul Kolebuck, Gayle Nix
  • Patent number: 8155912
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for determining a calibration value indicating the extent of loss of calibration of a group of three or more sensors in a sensor network, the method involving receiving a plurality of data values captured over a period of time by each of the sensors, determining by a processing unit (404) at least one correlation value associated with each sensor, each correlation value corresponding to the correlation between the data values captured by the associated sensor and the data values captured by at least one other sensor; extracting by a high pass filter (410) a noise component of the correlation values and outputting the calibration value determined based on the difference between the noise component and a reference noise value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Younes Souilmi
  • Publication number: 20120084254
    Abstract: Data migration using communications and collaboration platform provides an efficient and flexible method for migrating data from an existing system to a new system. In particular, the method includes extracting data, cleansing the extracted data based on a master record, receiving approval for the cleansed data, and migrating the approved data into the new system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Brian Hale Richards, Michael Holzman, Charles Nebolsky, Erin Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120084214
    Abstract: A business process-driven collaboration system embeds collaboration resources and tools directly into existing business processes and applications. The system provides a service layer connected to an existing business process management (BPM) service to embed collaboration resources into the process, and in particular, into the user interface of the existing business applications. The system provides an interface layer providing rapid enhancement of the existing business applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: David E. Trier, Michael A. Holzman, Louis Charles Nebolsky, Zsolt Benedek
  • Publication number: 20120084357
    Abstract: A collaboration service operation method provides an efficient and flexible method for operating services implemented across multiple systems. In particular, the method includes determining a change in a master record, and determining the nature of the change. Based on the nature of the change, the method further determines services to be implemented according to business rules and also determines to which systems the services will be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Brian Hale Richards, Michael Holzman, Charles Nebolsky, Erin Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120082427
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns methods of playback of a video stream comprising: receiving from a first user device first media content associated with said video stream; associating with said first media content a time stamp indicating the time at which said first media content is received with respect to a reference time associated with said video stream; and during delayed playback of said video stream on a second user device, transmitting, at the time indicated by said time stamp, said first media content for display by said second user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Ana Cristina Andres Del Valle, Kelly L. Dempski
  • Publication number: 20120084215
    Abstract: A business process-driven collaboration system embeds collaboration resources and tools directly into existing business processes and applications. The system interfaces with an existing business process management (BPM) service to extract dynamic metadata and an activity identifier associated with a current business process. The system obtains static metadata based on the activity identifier from a collaboration template. The system also merges the static and dynamic metadata, and provides the merged metadata to a process-driven collaboration service to be used in embedding collaboration utilities into the existing business applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: David E. Trier, Michael A. Holzman, Louis Charles Nebolsky, Fausto A. Inestroza
  • Patent number: 8150753
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided for e-commerce. In use, a plurality of suppliers are registered. In addition, goods-related information from customers is received, where the goods-related information is associated with goods. Access to the goods-related information by the suppliers is allowed utilizing a network. Further, offers relating to the goods from the suppliers are received utilizing the network, and the customers are informed of the offers. Still yet, a guarantee is provided to the customers regarding a qualification of at least one supplier with respect to a provision or fulfillment of the offer received therefrom. Such guarantee is provided as a function the at least one supplier or at least one action thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Michel K. Bowman-Amuah
  • Patent number: 8151276
    Abstract: A script analyzer with change guide generates accurate test scripts for evolving applications. Applications often have complex graphical user interfaces for which the permutations and combinations of GUI elements give rise to an enormous field of potential commands and command sequences to be tested. Furthermore, these applications change over time, rendering prior test scripts unworkable. The script analyzer automatically generates new test scripts to reliably test subsequent application versions, while greatly reducing the time, cost, and resource expenditures needed to arrive at subsequent application versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie, Chen Fu
  • Patent number: 8150557
    Abstract: A system and method that analyzes at least one aspect of the power grid for demand response in order to reduce feeder circuit losses is provided. The system and method may use a demand response model to select one or more factors for the demand response, such as selecting a subset of customers for demand response from a larger pool of available demand response customers. The demand response model may include a grid structure component, such as an indication of the particular customer's position in the grid, and a dynamic operation component, such as a real-time measurement of current in the feeder circuit. By using the demand response model, feeder circuit losses may thereby reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Taft
  • Publication number: 20120078908
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for processing a graphic in a document so that the graphic may be reused in a different application than the one it was originally used in. For a given document, a graphic may be identified from within the document and extracted from the document. The extracted graphic may be stored in a suitable storage medium, such as a reusable graphic repository. A structural feature associated with the extracted graphic may also be extracted. The extracted graphic may then be classified based on the extracted structural feature. Furthermore, a method and apparatus are provided for generating a reusable graphic from a document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Divna Djordjevic, Rayid Ghani
  • Patent number: 8140413
    Abstract: Tax returns are received from one or more tax agencies. Each tax return is compared to a stored profile, and a determination is made as to whether each tax return falls within a trend. An evaluation of the tax return is generated based on the comparison and the determination of whether the tax return falls within the trend. The evaluation includes an indication of the tax returns potential to be a fraudulent tax return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Douglas T. Ramsey, Maran J. Parker, Martin J. Grabeck, John Christian Stauffer
  • Patent number: 8140377
    Abstract: A system for predictive analytics using real-world pharmaceutical transactions includes a computer having a processor and memory, a data collection component configured to aggregate data for a plurality of pharmaceutical transactions, and a data reduction module configured to eliminate non-compliant transactions to generate a reduced transaction data set. An analysis module applies multiple linear regression analysis to a portion of the reduced transaction data set to identify key regression variables that correlate with an excess total return to shareholders. The analysis module also applies logistic regression analysis to a portion of the reduced transaction data set to identify key regression variables that correlate with an increased probability of regulatory agency approval. A report generator provides a graphical output of the identified key regression variables and a probability value corresponding to a likelihood of regulatory agency approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Reza Firouzbakht, Elizabeth O. Coulton, Henry Lai, Tigran Markaryan
  • Publication number: 20120066697
    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: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kelly L. Dempski, Brandon L. Harvey
  • Publication number: 20120066196
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of determining, by an electronic processing device coupled to the internet, a score (Si) indicating the amount of internet activity associated with a subject, the method comprising: receiving one or more search terms relating to said subject, and initiating a search via the internet for items of digital content relating to said one or more search terms; identifying from results of said search a plurality of items of digital content; for each of said plurality of items of digital content, requesting, from at least one digital content sharing site (412, 414), activity data indicating at least the number of times said item of media content has been accessed; and calculating said score based on the activity data for each of said plurality of items of digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kelly L. DEMPSKI, Alexandre Naressi, Fredrik Linaker, Robert Groenevelt
  • Publication number: 20120066268
    Abstract: A content asset manager (CAM) system manages content to be developed. CAM includes a data repository storing static assets and page assets operable to be used in a web site developed in a code editing system. A web service interfaces the CAM system with the code editing system and provides the code editing system with access to at least some of the static assets stored in the data repository through a user interface in the code editing system and provides code, including at least one of the static assets, for the web site developed in the code editing system to the CAM system. A slot database includes a plurality of independent slots, and a slot stores data to be used for the web site at runtime. A content manager retrieves the code for the web site from the data repository and stores the code for the web site in the slot for the web site in the slot database. The web site may be deployed using data in the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Denis Kirkby, Thaddaeus J. Parker, Brian C. Vokoun, Gregory W. Inks, David Walter MacLean Skinner
  • Patent number: 8135643
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for analyzing credit and tax form data and determining a collections treatment type to collect revenue. A collections model is constructed to determine a collections score that is based on raw credit data and tax form data and is indicative of a debtor's propensity to pay an owed amount. The collections model includes score bands, each score band being associated with a range of credit scores. A collections score is determined from a scoring expression that is associated with a score band and that typically includes a subset of available raw credit data and tax form data. A collections treatment type is determined from a collections score. Each treatment type corresponds to a treatment action that is directed to the debtor. A collections model is constructed from historical tax data, in which score bands and scoring expressions are constructed for the collections model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Inder Preet Singh
  • Patent number: 8132114
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) type model helps application designers create error free graphical user interface applications (GAPs). The GUI type model provides a reference set of GUI element types. The application designer assigns a selected GUI element type to each GUI element in a GAP design. The GUI element types help ensure consistent and proper treatment of the GUI element types at every stage in the development of the application, from initial planning and design, to compilation and execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie, Chen Fu
  • Patent number: 8126742
    Abstract: An automated assignment system may operate with a computer to automatically assign insurable events to one or more organizational entities associated with an insurance organization. The automated assignment system may categorize the insurable event. In addition, the automated assignment system may identify at least one target organizational entity based on the categorization that is capable of handling the insurable event. Identification of the target organizational entity or entities may be a function of properties associated with the insurable event and the availability of the organizational entity or entities. Automatic assignment may also be a function of the current workload of the target organizational entity or entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: William E. Bond, Jr., Michael A. Jackowski, Hussein Hezarkhani, Joseph J. Allogio, Cynthia S. Benes, Michael R. Krans, Josh Doyle