Patents Assigned to Accenture
  • Publication number: 20120030247
    Abstract: A document migration system that controls release, from a source enterprise content management system, of batches of documents and metadata and loading, to a target enterprise content management system, of batches of documents and metadata that have been released from the source enterprise content management system. The document migration system maps source metadata attributes from the released metadata to target metadata attributes and stores migration records that describe migration operations from release from the source enterprise content management system through loading to the target enterprise content management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Sachin Yambal, Muhammad Saad Nihal, Jitendra Javerchand Jain, Vijay H. Gurdasani
  • Patent number: 8108369
    Abstract: Content files such as photographs, video, graphics and/or music are indexed to identify subjects captured in them. Indexed content files are scanned to identify content files that match certain criteria. Content files that satisfy the selection criteria are directed to appropriate output devices for display such that related files are presented in a fashion by which a theme or message is conveyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Anatole V. Gershman, Christopher K. Chung
  • Patent number: 8103530
    Abstract: Insight-driven interactions with customers may be enhanced in a holistic approach. A customer relationship management (“CRM”) methodology may include: (1) evaluating a customer strategy; (2) identifying customer segments from a customer base; (3) forming an interaction strategy; (4) defining a series of experiences based on the strategy; (5) applying those interactions with customers during interactions; and (6) monitoring the results of the customer interactions. A computer aid may preferably guide a user through some of these steps. A modular, vendor-independent, centralized, rules-based engine may perform processing to deliver tailored customer experiences, relying on values for prioritized experiences identified through use of the computer aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kevin N. Quiring, Tore Berg, Vincent U. Dell'Anno, Julio J. Hernandez, Alyse S. Kornfeld, Steven L. Lew, Dawn E. Palmer, David A. Shapiro, David Slaw, Sajid Usman, Rodney B. Whitsett, Robert E. Wollan
  • Patent number: 8103466
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Taft
  • Patent number: 8103467
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Taft
  • Patent number: 8103531
    Abstract: Insight-driven interactions with customers may be enhanced in a holistic approach. A customer relationship management (“CRM”) methodology may include: (1) evaluating a customer strategy; (2) identifying customer segments from a customer base; (3) forming an interaction strategy; (4) defining a series of experiences based on the strategy; (5) applying those interactions with customers during interactions; and (6) monitoring the results of the customer interactions. A computer aid may preferably guide a user through some of these steps. A modular, vendor-independent, centralized, rules-based engine may perform processing to deliver tailored customer experiences, relying on values for prioritized experiences identified through use of the computer aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Robert E. Wollan, Tore Berg, Vincent U. Dell'Anno, Julio J. Hernandez, Alyse S. Kornfeld, Steven L. Lew, Dawn E. Palmer, Kevin N. Quiring, David A. Shapiro, David Slaw, Sajid Usman, Rodney B. Whitsett
  • Publication number: 20120016709
    Abstract: An enhanced postal data modeling framework, in which postal data which describes characteristics of a mail sortation process is accessed, and the postal data is mapped to production management data which describes characteristics of a model production management process in an initial state and which is capable of being processed by a production management application. The production management data is input for processing by the production management application to produce forecasted production management data which predicts characteristics of the model production management process in a subsequent state, the forecasted production management data is modeled to forecasted postal data which predicts characteristics of the mail sortation process, and at least a portion of the forecasted postal data is provided to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joel Marchildon, Lisa Fu, Geofrey Owen Kelk, Brian Moran, James A. Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20120011455
    Abstract: A requirement statement manipulation system is configured to create and edit requirement statements of various types. The requirement statement manipulation system may generate an interactive visual environment to receive input used in manipulating a requirement statement through creation or editing. The interactive visual environment may include specific requirement-type interfaces allowing requirement statements of a specific type to be manipulated. The interactive visual environment may manipulate requirement statements based on textual input, as well as through text generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Venkatesh Subramanian, Alex Kass, Kunal Verma, Gary Titus, Deepmala Gupta, Santhosh Kumar Shivaram
  • Patent number: 8095415
    Abstract: The invention provides a human capital development framework which allows organizations to assess the business impact of human capital initiatives and guide their implementation. The invention further provides a four-tier tool for arriving at an assessment of an organization's human capital practices. The first tier includes a measurement of business results, the second tier involves key performance drivers which contribute to business results, the third tier involves human capital capabilities and the fourth tier involves human capital processes. Surveys are provided to collect data for each tier and a detailed report is generated based upon survey results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Robert J. Thomas, Susan Marie Cantrell, James M. Benton, John W. Alden, Anthony G. Alati, Rene L. Kemp
  • Patent number: 8095405
    Abstract: A high-performance capability assessment model helps a freight and logistics business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the freight and logistics business can achieve the clarity, consistency, and well-defined execution of core processes that reduce inefficiencies and waste that result from unnecessary process complexity and exceptions. In addition, the high-performance capability assessment model helps the freight and logistics business to identify specific areas in which improvements may be made, to understand how to make said improvements, and to establish levels of capability along the way to reaching an ultimate capability goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Klaus Schumann, Katja Price
  • Patent number: 8094797
    Abstract: A request management and workflow engine for a communications system is disclosed that may include a provisioning service order engine and a provisioning network engine. The provisioning service order engine may process the service order according with a defined and configured workflow and generate a service order result reflecting the result of the activation and provisioning of the services on the network. The provisioning network engine may manage the provisioning of the services into the network generating the expected network command specific for the services to be provisioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Marco Dellarole, Takashi Toda
  • Publication number: 20120003613
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a business opportunity to understand and solve optimally. Mistakes are noted and remedial educational material presented dynamically to build the necessary skills that a user requires for success in the business endeavor. The system utilizes an artificial intelligence engine driving individualized and dynamic feedback with synchronized video and graphics used to simulate real-world environment and interactions. A robust business model provides support for realistic activities and allows a user to experience real world consequences for their actions and decisions and entails realtime decision-making and synthesis of the educational material. The system is architectured around a table of components to manage and control the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Eren Tolga Rosenfeld, Ekpedeme Mfon Bassey, Beth Elyse Zadik, Martha Torrey O'Connor, Alexander Han Leung Poon, Eric Jeffrey Lannert, Tracey Andrea Solomon, Jonathan Christian Conant, Alexander Zorba, Carl Michael Puccio, Timothy John Gobran, James Andrew Gilchrist, Mark Stewart Nichols, Brandon Denning Fleisher, Craig William Friedman, Adebisi Detoro Lipede, Matthew Allen Bailey
  • Patent number: 8090624
    Abstract: New functions for a contact center system include: testing user's comprehension of informational messages with a quiz; capturing insight of superior users having a KPI score above a threshold by having those users submit information on why they perform so well; dynamically ordering solutions to issues by re-ranking the solutions periodically based on recency and frequency; integrating information for use by a contact center representative while online with a customer and information for use when not online; storing content items in a telecommunications industry taxonomy; directing user feedback on a content item to the proper owner/manager of that content; communicating solution information using a solutions taxonomy; displaying a dual information system having a CRM application as well as reference material that is context-appropriate; enforcing completion of a group of templates when creating a content item to be published; ensuring a group of templates for a content item are complete before publishing them
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Gregory S Reid, Timothy Ringo, David P Lane, Elizabeth H Lian, Daniel C Farrell, Craig Fenton, Elise Shearing, Randy Bell, Sevasti Wong, Anthony Lingham, Audrey Forrester, Claudia Staubitz, Kevin Adams, Lesley Pickering, Paul Ritchie
  • Patent number: 8089875
    Abstract: A network real-time monitoring and control system includes several layers of components for generating a network traffic shaping control that is used to shaping network traffic flows for one or more network nodes. The layers of the network real-time monitoring and control system include a monitoring layer, an event control layer, a traffic shaping control layer, a reporting layer, and an administrative layer. The monitoring obtains network traffic indicator measurements and network node operational indicator measurements. The event control layer uses the indicator measurements to generate a network event identifier, and generates a request for a network traffic shaping control based on a correlation of the network event identifier with a network node status identifier. The request for the network traffic shaping control is communicated to the traffic shaping control layer to generate a network traffic shaping control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Donato Fraccalvieri, Marco D'Aleo, Luigi Forlano
  • Patent number: 8090345
    Abstract: An automatic refill system for pre-paid accounts provides enhanced funding flexibility for customers and additional revenue streams for a telecommunication service provider. The automatic refill system solves the technical challenges involved with implementing a scheduled refill channel co-existing with a triggered refill channel for funding a pre-paid account. The scheduled channel regularly refills the pre-paid account. The telecommunication service provider also coordinates funding through a triggered refill channel that refills the pre-paid account when specific conditions are met, such as account balance falling below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Domenico Mastrantuono, Jacopo Clemenzi
  • Patent number: 8086483
    Abstract: In one example, normalized questionnaires may be used to consistently determine an assessment regardless of which of the questionnaires is used. The normalization may include verification that a category score is consistently determined regardless of which of the questionnaires is used. The category score included in the assessment may be determined as a function of answers provided in response to each of the questions that are included in a questionnaire and that are directed to a question category. Normalization may include selection of focus questions from among the questions that are directed to the question category. Normalization may include determination of category scores, where each of the category scores is determined based on a respective answer to each one of the focus questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: John Yuan, Kevin A. Soucy
  • Publication number: 20110314493
    Abstract: A content insertion system helps digital media providers insert replacement content (e.g., localized commercials) at precisely the right places in the video streams delivered to downstream players. Specifically, with frame accuracy, the system inserts content insertion triggers into the delivered video streams. From a source video input, the system determines the trigger positions at which insertion triggers exist with reference to house timecode. The system then locates the corresponding trigger positions in the output video stream with reference to a framecount of frames generated by a digital encoder. The system inserts corresponding content insertion triggers into the delivered video stream when it locates the corresponding trigger positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Christopher M. Lemire, Forest D. Johns
  • Publication number: 20110307429
    Abstract: A classification algorithm is separated into one or more input-invariant parts and one or more input-dependent classification parts. Classifiable electronic data is obtained via a communication network. Using the classification algorithm, classifications of a plurality of data elements in the classifiable data are identified, where the at least one classification part incorporates user input concerning classification of at least one data element of the plurality of data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Katharina Probst, Rayid Ghani
  • Publication number: 20110305283
    Abstract: The present description relates to a computer-implemented method, a computer program product and an embedded system for displaying data more efficiently, wherein the embedded system comprises an integrated circuit and a convertor, and the integrated circuit includes an image codec. The method comprises receiving a string at the embedded system; generating a converted image using the string; producing, by means of the image codec, a decoded image by decoding the converted image; and sending the decoded image to a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Orlando Onorato, Flavio Console, Claudi Caldera, Giovanni Gagliardi, Aurelio Nocerino
  • Patent number: 8078485
    Abstract: A high performance capability assessment model helps a postal industry business meet the challenges of the global marketplace. As a result, the postal industry business can achieve the clarity, consistency, and well-defined execution of core processes that reduce inefficiencies and waste that result from unnecessary process complexity and exceptions. In addition, the high performance capability assessment model helps the postal industry business to identify specific areas in which improvements may be made and understand how to make the improvements, and establishes levels of capability along the way to reaching an ultimate capability goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Lars Kraehmueller, Wai Seng Cheah, William A. Morris, Carolyn Hay, Ivano Veltri, Ilan Geller, Michael T. Chiaramonte, Xiaojan Jin