Patents Examined by Pan G Choy
  • Patent number: 10068189
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a solution for storing and depicting complex non-contiguous organizations that are subject to situation-based restructuring. Different views for organization charts of the organization can be generated, where the generated organization charts are collapsed to a minimal view which automatically hides at least a portion of the organization positions in accordance with a desired view. For example, a view showing only filled positions will hide unfilled positions, collapsing intermediate nodes of a shown hierarchy so that child nodes of a hidden node are directly connected to the parent node of the hidden node. A set of indexed database tables can be used to efficiently store details of the organization. The indexed tables can store positions, assignment, and position reporting details in separate 3NF tables. The solution can be integrated to a commercial off-the-shelf command management system and/or to a commercial off-the-shelf front-end charting application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christopher C. Couper
  • Patent number: 10032174
    Abstract: An inquiry handler may be configured to receive one or more customer inquiries in response to one or more pre-sales documents associated with a product. An opportunity parser may be configured to determine a sales opportunity associated with the one or more customer inquiries based on the pre-sales documents. An activity engine may be configured to track one or more sales activities performed with respect to the sales opportunity and in response to the one or more customer inquiries. A status engine may be configured to determine a status of each of the one or more customer inquiries based on the one or more sales activities. A report generator may be configured to generate one or more activity reports associated with the sales opportunity based on the one or more customer inquiries and including the status associated with each customer inquiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Roland Hoff
  • Patent number: 9904898
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, a business rule is created, and, when a rule set does not already exist, a rule set is already created. The business rule is added to the rule set, and the rule set is added to a rule dictionary of a business process. The rule dictionary is stored in a process definition table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Raju Addala, Alok Singh, Kolanupaka Suman, Lavanya Siliveri, Shrikant Nene
  • Patent number: 9892376
    Abstract: A set of data indicative of sensed parameters on an agricultural machine is evaluated against a reference data set to obtain an evaluation value indicative of how the set of data compares to the reference data. A performance score is generated based on the evaluation value and indicates a performance of a given operator in operating the agricultural machine. An operator performance report is generated based on the performance score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Dohn W. Pfeiffer, Sebastian Blank