Patents Assigned to Open Text S.A.
  • Patent number: 8307045
    Abstract: Methods for facilitating the creation of templates used to convert service data from a non-displayable format to alternate formats which are suited to be displayed on various client devices. In a preferred embodiment, the data corresponding to a selected service is examined to identify name-value pairs. A user is queried for a label corresponding to each pair. Formatting information for a plurality of client devices is contained in a master template. This information is used to generate a plurality of templates which are specific to the service data and the client devices and which are configured to convert the name-value pairs into formats adapted to be displayed on the corresponding devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Igor A. Shmulevich, Pero Smrzlic
  • Patent number: 8301642
    Abstract: The present invention can include a data processing system-implemented method or a data processing system readable media having software code for carrying out the method. The method can comprise formulating queries, searching for a plurality of information objects, or a combination thereof. In a specific embodiment, an original query with at least one keyword can be automatically expanded to an expanded query that includes at least one keyword that is not in the original query. The expanded query may be used to search for information objects that are relevant to the expanded query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text, S.A.
    Inventors: Jefferson M. Kommers, David Freed, Damien Paul Kennedy
  • Patent number: 8296435
    Abstract: A method and system and computer program product implementing same can be used to automatically manage a digital asset, from development to deployment, to control change within a network environment in a comprehensive and efficient manner. Digital assets can be tracked for progress and inaccuracies, mistakes, and incompatibilities can be addressed prior to deployment. Stages can be used to formalize and automate the flow of digital assets along the process. Further, metadata regarding the digital asset can be captured at any time to provide an audit trail for the digital asset from development all the way through deployment. The metadata can include not only the change records for the digital asset but may also include other information, such as results from staging and where the digital asset has been deployed. Any stage may have access to any or all metadata captured for the digital asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: Conleth S. O'Connell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8291040
    Abstract: Management software that can associate events, including non page events, such as the generation of dynamic content, with HTTP requests. The management software can receive a set of HTTP request data including a request time stamp for each HTTP request in a set of HTTP requests, receive a set of event data including an event time stamp for each event in a set of events and associate each event from the set of events with a previous HTTP request from the set of HTTP requests based on the event time stamps and request time stamps. Each event can be associated with previous HTTP request closest in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text, S.A.
    Inventors: John C. Artz, Jr., Heeren Pathak
  • Patent number: 8270721
    Abstract: In a method for acquiring data from a machine-readable document for assignment to fields of a database, individual data are extracted substantially automatically from the document and entered into the corresponding database fields. If data cannot be extracted from the document with a desired degree of reliability for one or more particular database fields, then the steps are executed of displaying the document onto the display screen, displaying on the display screen the at least one or more database fields for which the data cannot be extracted with the desired degree of reliability, and executing a proposal routine with which string sections in the vicinity of a pointer movable by a user on the display screen are selected, marked, and proposed for extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: Matthias Schiehlen
  • Patent number: 8271561
    Abstract: A software product comprising a set of computer instructions stored on a computer readable medium and executable by a computer processor to maintain a profile object representing profile data, receive a first command based on the profile object to access an attribute value, and access the attribute value. The profile object can include at least one profile section that acts as a container for attributes and at least one attribute for each profile section. The attributes can essentially be variables having a name and a value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Hereen Pathak, Philip M. Irey, IV
  • Patent number: 8260870
    Abstract: A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits messages from multiple sources to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by the type or priority of the message. The system permits the volume of messages to be reduced by aggregating messages according to a set of rules and by discarding or delaying messages that are sufficiently similar and sent too close together. In addition, the system allows message sources to be notified when a recipient has not received a message within a designated time period. The system can be implemented as a centralized pacing system or through use of a data storage system accessible by the message sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: Brian Reistad
  • Patent number: 8260764
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for searching and reporting on semistructured data that can include dynamic metadata. One embodiment can comprise providing a user interface to a user based on an object type definition for an object type that allows the user to specify search criteria associated with a set of metadata, mapping the user search criteria to a query that comprises at least one structured query constraint and at least one unstructured query constraint, processing the query to search a set of data objects containing semistructured data associated with the object type according to the query and returning a set of results to the user. The search results can be returned to a user based on user-specified reporting parameters. Additionally, the reporting definition can be saved as an object for future execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: Thomas Robert Gruber
  • Patent number: 8260802
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and method for the provisioning of dynamically generated content. One embodiment can interface a content delivery system and a content management system at the fragment level. Depending upon how a page is organized, a fragment may refer to a block within the page, a portion of the page, or a content item presented on the page. When a content item is updated and published onto the content management system, one embodiment of the invention can operate to track dependencies of managed pages and invalidate/validate fragment(s) affected by the change(s) accordingly. The updated fragment(s) may then be dynamically assembled on-the-fly or on-demand. The updated fragment(s) may or may not be cached. In this way, changes made to a piece of content can be reflected in all pages which utilize this content almost simultaneously with the changes to the content itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: N. Isaac Rajkumar, Mark McCalister, Expeditus Bolanos, Peter Hale, Mark Martin, Richard Nemec, Puhong You, Daun DeFrance, Ching-Fu Chang, Priya Reddy, Ladislav Kis, Robert L. Patterson, Tony Zgarba, Jeffrey M. Collins, Michael C. Tulkoff, Miles Chaston, Dean Moses, John Petersen, Ian Stahl, Lara Long
  • Patent number: 8255460
    Abstract: Systems and methods for personalizing marketing dialogues are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the systems and methods presented may allow obtain a set of user actions from a participant. The set of user information may include user information, such as demographics, and may also contain event related information, such as a purchase or the user clicking on a link in an email. A program or script may be generated having decision branches. At each decision branch, a first dialogue or a second dialogue may be selected based on the user information. The personalized program or script may be presented to the user based on the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Brian Reistad, William D. Snapper, Andrew C. Payne, James Campbell
  • Patent number: 8249228
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting information to a recipient under their control are described. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fax delivery system to, as part of a connection established to perform a fax transmission, provide a variety of functionalities to a human recipient that is participating as part of the connection, such as when the human recipient is contacted in error. In addition, in some situations an interactive voice response system is used to receive and interpret input from a human recipient, such as in response to one or more control selections or options provided to the human recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: William D. Street, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20120198000
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a communication network. The system comprises a network-connected server having input and access capabilities, a site builder, a transmitter, a communicator, and memory. The site-builder receives instructions input from a first user and creates a dedicated network site based on the received instructions. The transmitter communicates the existence of the dedicated network site to a nominated second user. The communicator provides accesses to the contents of the dedicated network site by the first and second users. The memory stores information input by the first and the second user in the dedicated network site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: OPEN TEXT S.A.
    Inventors: Gerald William Smith, Charles Edward Tatham, Randall Nelson Remme
  • Patent number: 8234334
    Abstract: Systems and methods for carrying on marketing dialogues are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the systems and methods presented may allow marketing dialogues to be carried on with a set of participants by sending a communication to each of the participants. Another set of participant may be assembled from the initial participants and an action may then be taken with respect to this second set of participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Brian Reistad, William D. Snapper, Andrew C. Payne, James Campbell
  • Patent number: 8234314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described which facilitate the integration of data into a content management system. Legacy data is inspected, and content types are generated based on a data model. From these content types, content type objects may be generated. The data may then be examined to acquire a key set, and a content instance object generated for each datum found which matches a content type. This content instance object can then be associated with the datum using one or more key values, saved, and subsequently used to manage the data. These methods and systems allow data to be migrated to a content management system without any modification to the existing data repository or its associated structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Michael C. Tulkoff, Jeffrey M. Collins
  • Patent number: 8200784
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system and method for transferring data between an unstructured data source and a structured destination. In one embodiment, graphical representations of a unstructured data source and a structured destination are presented to a user via a graphical user interface of a computer. Using the graphical user interface, the user can draw lines between the graphical representations to indicate how data from the unstructured data source should be associated with and transferred to the structured destination. The graphical representation of the unstructured data source may be generated using data extracted from a web based document. This data extraction can be done recursively and at least partially in parallel with retrieving files associated with hyperlinks within the web based document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Andrew Groh, Rob Surratt, Marc Harris, Mikhail Gurevich
  • Patent number: 8195786
    Abstract: A method can be used to analyze the “real-estate” performance of content items within a network site. The method can comprise determining the click distance to reach each content item and determining the performance of each content item. The method can also comprise calculating a predicted value for performance based on statistical relationship between location and performance observed in a population of content items. The method can comprise comparing the predicted and actual performance. If a content item has an actual performance greater than its predicted performance, then it may be promoted to a better location in the site and the converse for poorer performing content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: Brendan J. Kitts
  • Patent number: 8184325
    Abstract: A document delivery network server having a set of integrated functions including sending, receiving, routing and filing of FAXes and e-mails to other users which achieves numerous advantages over the prior art. The document delivery system is based on a client/server model having both analog and digital Fax line capabilities. The server side provides very highly integrated systems functionality based on industry standard, commercially available hardware and a mix of industry standard and proprietary software components including integrated FAX/modem modules, an embedded OS, embedded plug-and-play driver sets, embedded e-mail gateways, an embedded FAX archive, embedded back-up/restore, proprietary high efficiency line utilization and highly efficient load balancing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Kevin Phillips, Eric C. Chen, Curtis R. Powell, Jian Chen, Kamal Punn
  • Patent number: 8176122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a communication network. The system comprises a network-connected server having input and access capabilities, a site builder, a transmitter, a communicator, and memory. The site-builder receives instructions input from a first user and creates a dedicated network site based on the received instructions. The transmitter communicates the existence of the dedicated network site to a nominated second user. The communicator provides accesses to the contents of the dedicated network site by the first and second users. The memory stores information input by the first and the second user in the dedicated network site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Gerald William Smith, Charles Edward Tatham, Randall Nelson Remme
  • Patent number: 8154757
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein can facilitate delivery of a document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Actions to be taken are based upon input conditions which may include a time-variable set of input conditions such as identifying non-business days and/or hours at the destination. The document can be a fax, an email, or a voice mail. The actions may include resubmitting the document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, sending a request to the source or destination for additional delivery information, identifying the destination as a technical problem, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Ranalli, Robert Huebner, Valerie Louise Johns, Shelley J. Ranalli, Lori Baumgartner, Diana Li
  • Patent number: 8149445
    Abstract: An automated rule-based system for facilitating delivery of a fax document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Actions to be taken are based upon a time-variable set of input conditions which may be determined from one or more of the destination, the source, a database of past delivery attempts, and a human analyst. The actions may include one or more of resubmitting the fax document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, sending a request to the source or destination for additional delivery information, and identifying the destination as a technical problem. The input conditions may include an identification of non-business days and non-business hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Ranalli, Robert Huebner, Valerie Louise Johns, Shelley J. Ranalli, Lori Baumgartner, Diana Li