Patents Assigned to Accenture
  • Patent number: 9438632
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for compliance with a privacy requirement. The method comprises analyzing, using one or more processors, an access log related to a history of users accessing records; deriving a plurality of roles assigned to the users and a plurality of accesses reflecting actions taken by the users; and deriving from the access log a mapped log comprising a plurality of mapping records including a plurality of mapped role-access pairs. The method further comprises generating, using the one or more processors, a reduced log including a plurality of reduced records comprising a mapped role-access pair and statistics that are associated with the mapped role-access pair, the statistics being derived from a subset of the mapping records that include the mapped role-access pair; and deriving an access policy based on the reduced log, wherein the access policy includes a plurality of proposed role-access pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Rafae Bhatti, Paul D. Martin
  • Patent number: 9438729
    Abstract: A device may receive an indication to test a call flow associated with an interactive voice response (IVR) system. The device may identify an input associated with the call flow, and may identify a first response associated with the call flow. The first response may be determined based on providing the input to the IVR system on a previous call. The device may initiate a test call with the IVR system. The test call may be initiated after the previous call, and may cause the input to be provided to the IVR system and a second response to be received from the IVR system. The device may identify the second response, and may compare first audio information, associated with the first response, and second audio information associated with the second response. The device may determine a test result based on the comparison, and may provide the test result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: VijayChandar Natesan, Rajesh Sarangapani, Surajit Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 9436960
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of making a payment transaction between a customer and a merchant using a payment card (200) of the customer including steps of: transmitting details of the payment transaction from a mobile device (202) to a remote server; capturing at least one image of the payment card using the mobile device of the merchant; transmitting the at least one image of the payment card to the remote server; identifying, by the remote server, the merchant and the payment card captured in the at least one image; and implementing the payment transaction between bank accounts (208, 210) of the customer and the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Robert Hasson
  • Patent number: 9436744
    Abstract: A device may receive information that identifies a search query. The device may use the search query to cause a search of internal and external documents to be performed to identify internal and external search results. The device may cause the internal search results and the external search results to be presented for display. The internal search results may be presented for display to visually distinguish the internal search results from the external search results. The device may receive an indication that an external search result has been flagged for review, and may provide a notification that the external search result has been flagged for review. The device may determine that the external search result has been approved for presentation as an internal search result, and may store an indication that the external search result is to be identified as an internal search result for a future search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Michael P. Duffy, Xingxin Liu, Roy Vera, William C. Hall
  • Patent number: 9436967
    Abstract: A system for providing location-based services to a mobile device regularly determines the location of the mobile device. Using the location of the device, the system queries a database of virtual geographic regions to determine if the location of the mobile device falls within one or more of the virtual geographic regions. The virtual geographic regions correspond to service entities that have purchased, rented, leased, or otherwise acquired the virtual geographic regions. The virtual geographic regions cover a certain area of a map. If the mobile device is within a virtual geographic region, the system notifies the mobile device. A location-based services application installed on the mobile device launches an applet for the entity that acquired the virtual geographic region within which the mobile device is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Kelly L. Dempski
  • Publication number: 20160253232
    Abstract: Contextual graph matching based anomaly detection may include evaluating computer-generated log file data to create a master directed graph that specifies known events and transitions between the known events. The master directed graph may be processed to determine a plurality of decomposed master graph walks. Incoming computer-generated log file data may be evaluated to create an incoming directed graph that specifies unknown events and transitions between the unknown events. The incoming directed graph may be processed to determine a decomposed incoming walk. Overlap, distance difference, and correlation scores may be determined for each walk pair of a plurality of walk pairs including each of the plurality of decomposed master graph walks and the decomposed incoming walk. One of the decomposed master graph walks may be selected based on the overlap score, the difference score, and the correlation score, to detect an anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Colin A. PURI, John K. Nguyen, Scott W. Kurth
  • Patent number: 9432431
    Abstract: A device is configured to receive a playlist identifying content assets to be played on a streaming video channel. Each of the content assets may include segments. The device may add segment addresses associated with a content asset into a queue. The segment addresses may identify memory locations at which the segments included in the content asset are stored. However, the segments themselves may not be stored by the device or added to the queue. The device may generate a batch of segment addresses from the segment addresses in the queue. The device may publish a channel manifest for the streaming video channel including the batch of segment addresses. The content assets may be accessible via the streaming video channel through a single network address. The device may periodically update the channel manifest based on the segment addresses in the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Servicse Limited
    Inventors: Meghan O'Malley, Jeffrey D. Burgoon, Ron Lev, Ryan K. McDonald, Joshua Intriligator
  • Patent number: 9430506
    Abstract: A data migration tool is disclosed for allowing a data migration project to be more efficient to execute from the client standpoint. The data migration tool is able to accomplish this by offering an efficient process for receiving the client's data migration requirements and generating a migration schedule based on the client's data migration requirements. The client's data migration requirements may identify one or more migration rules relating the data to be migrated as well as the client's scheduling conflicts. Based on the data migration requirements, the data migration tool can generate a data migration schedule. The data migration schedule may include a sequence in which data entities are migrated, as well as provide migration activities that describe the specific instructions for migrating a data entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Karl M. Schuenzel, Jonathan R. Harrison, Jeffrey P. Radack, Timothy P. Swope, Caroline Pierri, Aimin Yin, Darcy Studer, Zheng Wu
  • Patent number: 9432335
    Abstract: A virtual network may include a web application firewall (WAF) portion to receive network traffic for one or more other portions of the virtual network; a first firewall connected to the WAF; a web server portion, connected to the first firewall, to receive web traffic; a second firewall connected to the web server portion; an application server portion, connected to the second firewall, to perform application services for one or more servers of the web server portion; a third firewall connected to the application server portion; a database server portion connected to the third firewall; a fourth firewall connected to the database server portion, the application server portion, and the web server portion; an active directory portion, connected to the fourth firewall, to perform authentication of one or more access requests; and a utility portion, connected to the first firewall and the fourth firewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: John Stevenson
  • Patent number: 9430709
    Abstract: An image of a portion of a person's body is accessed, the image having been captured by an image capture device. Using the image, measurements of characteristics in the image are obtained, the characteristics in the image having been selected based on a statistical analysis of characteristics (i) in a plurality of first images taken directly of a person and (ii) in a plurality of second images taken of an image of a person. Based on a liveness function, a score for the image is determined using the obtained measurements of the characteristics in the image. A threshold value is accessed. The score of the image is compared to the accessed threshold value. Based on the comparison of the score of the image to the accessed threshold value, the image is determined to be have been taken by the image capture device imaging the portion of the person's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Florian Juveneton, Alessio Cavallini
  • Patent number: 9432462
    Abstract: The distributed metering and monitoring service (DMMS) system provides a way to gather and maintain metrics data which remains distributed, until requested. The DMMS system uses messaging queues to scale the number of servers that may be monitored and metered to a hyperscale of greater than 10,000 servers. The DMMS system determines how many servers (nodes) to assign to a cluster, and uses a metric aggregator to collect and store metrics data for the nodes. The DMMS system creates message queues for the instances, injects instance identifiers into the cluster state data and metrics data, listens for request messages for metering information for instances, retrieves the metrics data for users identified by the instance identifiers stored locally at the nodes, and calculates the metering information for the instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Owen E Richter, Lukas M Lundell, Charles M Portell, Bryan M Walker, Sonali Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20160248793
    Abstract: According to an example, a method for data trend analysis may include retrieving data from data sources, associating the data with a time, and identifying co-occurrences of terms and concepts within the data. In response to determining that co-occurrences of term and concept pairs reach a predefined threshold, the method may include adding the term and concept pairs to an ontology. The method may include logging occurrences of terms in the ontology within the data with respect to associated data times, identifying a plurality of time periods, and for one of the plurality of time periods and for the logged terms, determining a first score indicative of a weighted term frequency metric for a logged term within the data during the one time period, and determining a second score indicative of a commonality of a presence of the logged term within the data among the plurality of time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Z. HOWES, James SOLDERITSCH, Ryan M. LASALLE, David W. ROZMIAREK, Eric A. ELLETT
  • Patent number: 9424106
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kelly L. Dempski, Brandon L. Harvey
  • Patent number: 9424613
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, method and apparatus for load shaving of a power grid, and a tangible computer readable medium. The system may comprise at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer executable instructions. The at least one memory and computer executable instructions may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to profile behavior data for power customers to divide the power customers into at least one group; define, based on usage characteristic of each of the at least one group, a possible load shaving strategy for each of the at least one group; and perform load shaving analysis at least under constraint of the possible load shaving strategy for each of the at least one group, to provide a recommended load shaving strategy for each of the power customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Fang Hou, Qin Zhou, Zhihui Yang, Yuteng Huang, Yufei Wang
  • Patent number: 9420100
    Abstract: The Next Best Action (NBA) management system and method is a real time decision solution usable in multiple industries, including Telco industry. The NBA system identify offers for call agents to pitch to customers, calculate and allow call center organizations and agents to view performance analytics, including an Inbound Campaign Agent Performance Index (ICAPI) for each agent. The NBA system uses usage oriented key performance indicators (KPIs) and sales oriented KPIs to add a weighted portion of the usage oriented KPIs and the sales oriented KPIs to calculate the ICAPI for each agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Davide Guglielmo Bellini, Matteo Maga, Danilo Rizzo
  • Patent number: 9419857
    Abstract: A system may receive a development update. The system may authenticate the development update. The system may progress the development update through multiple stages of development. The multiple stages of development may include a first virtual network including a group of development servers. The multiple stages of development may include a second virtual network including a group of quality assurance and testing servers. The multiple stages of development may include a third virtual network including a group of end-to-end testing servers. The multiple stages of development may include a fourth virtual network including a group of staging servers. The multiple stages of development may include a fifth virtual network including a group of production servers. The system may connect to the first virtual network, the second virtual network, the third virtual network, the fourth virtual network, and the fifth virtual network in a hub-and-spoke configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stanford Ryan, John Stevenson, Bahij Nahhas
  • Patent number: 9417849
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present application is directed to a communications network, a computer architecture, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program product for development and management of femtocell-based applications. In one aspect, the communications network may comprise at least one femtocell; a mobile operator network; and a computer architecture integrated in the mobile operator network, wherein the computer architecture is operable to support development and lifecycle management of at least one femtocell-based application for the at least one femtocell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Giuseppe Capuozzo, Orlando Onorato, Alessandro Imparato, Daniele D'Errico, Gianluca D'Angelo
  • Publication number: 20160232721
    Abstract: An integrated fleet vehicle management system provides remote management and diagnostics and analysis of vehicles. The system provides integration across many layers including on board units (OBUs) in vehicles, a telematics layer collecting OBU data, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, a data and analytics layer platform including data storage, and a mobility platform. The above integration enables management and diagnostics of vehicles and analysis of vehicle data for servicing and determining productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Paul Sundar SINGH, Vallinayagam SHUNMUGAM, Karthik KANTHIMATHINATHAN, Priyadharshini MOHAN
  • Patent number: 9407645
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing data that includes security threat information. One of the methods includes identifying intelligence types that each categorizes a subset of data, associating, for each of the intelligence types, each of the subsets of data, which are categorized by the respective intelligence type, with the respective intelligence type, determining rules for a third party that each indicate that the third party should receive data associated with particular types of potential security threats and priority information for the data, determining, for each of the potential security threats indicated in the rules, a group of the subsets that include information associated with the respective potential security threat, assigning, for each subset in each of the groups, a priority to the respective subset using the priority information, and providing the determined subsets to the third party using the respective priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Shimon Modi, Stephen A. Schall
  • Patent number: 9406034
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and a computer system for providing functionality for electronically managing and supporting a merger integration of businesses, using software and other computer-implemented tools. In one aspect of the invention, the method and system provide program milestone tracking for an integration of businesses, where the businesses are subject to a merger or acquisition. The system provides a collaboration environment computer program for assisting a group of individuals performing the integration of businesses. The collaboration environment computer program provides administrative controls and communication among the group of individuals. A project management computer program assists the group of individuals and is configured to manage project schedules, budgets, and timeframes. A program milestone component is established and configured to facilitate creating and tracking program milestones for the collaboration environment computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Richard W. Aleong, P. Christopher Bosco, Arthur Bert, Dorree F. Ebner, Kristin L. Ficery, Bruce P. Kiene, Connor G. McGogney, Jill S. Dailey, Ali Lila