Patents by Inventor Alexandre Fortin

Alexandre Fortin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240061668
    Abstract: In some implementations, there is provided a method including selecting, based on a usage of computing resources, a download speed for downloading of an available one or more upgrades to one or more computing systems, and downloading, using the selected download speed, the available one or more upgrades to the one or more computing systems; determining an installation priority for installation of the available one or more upgrades to the one or more computing systems, and installing the available one or more upgrades to the one or more computing systems in accordance with the determined installation priority; and determining a time for switching one or more software applications to the installed one or more upgrades, and switching, based on the determined time, the one or more software applications to the installed one or more upgrades. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandre FORTIN, Oswald Blassou, Jonathan Rakotovao, Florent Moulinier, Christophe Puget
  • Publication number: 20230410008
    Abstract: A method may include generating, for display at a client device, a user interface for creating and configuring a custom task associated with one or more enterprise software applications. The user interface may display a plurality of components. The custom task may be configurable by adding one or more components to the custom task, reordering the one or more components, configuring a property of the one or more components, and/or deleting the one or more components from the custom task. One or more user inputs configuring the custom task may be received through the user interface. The custom task may be generated based on the one or more user inputs for subsequent execution. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Bienfait, Kevin Le Fur, Jonathan Rakotovao, Alexandre Fortin, Xiaohui Xue, Didier Bolf
  • Patent number: 10956295
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are described herein for automatically recognizing user interface (UI) elements. Capturing, by a first application, of user interactions with a graphical user interface (GUI) of a second application is initiated. The GUI includes a plurality of UI elements. The first application is separate and distinct from the second application. A selection of a UI element is received. The selection is iteratively evaluated against a ranked criteria list having a plurality of criteria to identify whether the selection matches at least one criterion of the plurality of criteria. The selection is appended to the ranked criteria list based on the selection matching the at least one criterion. A second selection of another UI element is received from the second application. The first application automatically appends a criterion to the second selection based on the ranked criteria list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Philippe Long, Alexandre Fortin
  • Patent number: 10728257
    Abstract: A system includes determination and storage of usage data based on the audit data associated with events within the system, determination of a role associated with a user based on metadata of system objects stored in a system database and instance data of the system objects stored in a file repository, determination of usage information associated with the user based on the stored usage data, determination of one or more metrics based on the role and the usage information, and providing of a home page dashboard to the user including the determined one or more metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Andrew Brown, Alexandre Fortin, Louis Rakotoarivony
  • Publication number: 20200021599
    Abstract: A system includes determination and storage of usage data based on the audit data associated with events within the system, determination of a role associated with a user based on metadata of system objects stored in a system database and instance data of the system objects stored in a file repository, determination of usage information associated with the user based on the stored usage data, determination of one or more metrics based on the role and the usage information, and providing of a home page dashboard to the user including the determined one or more metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew BROWN, Alexandre FORTIN, Louis RAKOTOARIVONY
  • Patent number: 10496682
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for customizing a geospatial visualization. In one example, a method includes receiving a geospatial file that when executed displays an outline of a geographic area divided into predefined regions, generating a modified display for the for the geographic area based on a data file that configures customized regions for the geographic area, where the customized regions are different than the predefined regions, and displaying the generated modified display for the geographic area comprising an outline of the geographic area divided into the customized regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Alexandre Fortin, Yannick Besnehard
  • Patent number: 10417185
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for semantic generation and enrichment. In one example, the method includes displaying a plurality of tiles on a user interface, each displayed tile visually representing a data entity obtained from a data file, detecting, via the user interface, a selection of a first displayed tile visually representing a first data entity and a second displayed tile visually representing a second data entity, and in response to detecting the selection via the user interface, generating a new data entity based on the first data entity visually represented by the first displayed tile and the second data entity visually represented by the second tile, and displaying a new tile visually representing the newly generated data entity. Accordingly, an end user can provide semantic creation and enrichment to visually displayed data without the need for an administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Louis Rakotoarivony, Alexandre Fortin, Andrew Brown
  • Patent number: 10055385
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for generating a preview of master data based on metadata thereof. In one example, a method includes receiving a data file including at least one table, identifying master data included in the at least one table of the data file and identifying metadata of the master data, auto-generating a visual preview of a measure of the master data based on metadata of the measure, and outputting, to a user interface, the visual preview of the measure and metadata values of the measure that are associated with the visual preview and which are capable of being changed via the user interface. The example embodiments allow a user to modify metadata associated with master data and provide a visual preview of the master data based on the changed metadata thereby giving the user instant validation of the change without requiring administrative (IT) assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Brown, Louis Rakotoarivony, Alexandre Fortin
  • Publication number: 20180143957
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and method including presenting a first value, the first value being a member of a category of values; receiving a user-edited value for displaying the first value in a desired format; determining a best guess formatting formula corresponding to the user-edited value; and applying the formatting formula to other values belonging to the category including the first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Marcin Jakubik, Alexandre Fortin
  • Publication number: 20180113575
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for semantic generation and enrichment. In one example, the method includes displaying a plurality of tiles on a user interface, each displayed tile visually representing a data entity obtained from a data file, detecting, via the user interface, a selection of a first displayed tile visually representing a first data entity and a second displayed tile visually representing a second data entity, and in response to detecting the selection via the user interface, generating a new data entity based on the first data entity visually represented by the first displayed tile and the second data entity visually represented by the second tile, and displaying a new tile visually representing the newly generated data entity. Accordingly, an end user can provide semantic creation and enrichment to visually displayed data without the need for an administrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Louis Rakotoarivony, Alexandre Fortin, Andrew Brown
  • Publication number: 20180113843
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for generating a preview of master data based on metadata thereof. In one example, a method includes receiving a data file including at least one table, identifying master data included in the at least one table of the data file and identifying metadata of the master data, auto-generating a visual preview of a measure of the master data based on metadata of the measure, and outputting, to a user interface, the visual preview of the measure and metadata values of the measure that are associated with the visual preview and which are capable of being changed via the user interface. The example embodiments allow a user to modify metadata associated with master data and provide a visual preview of the master data based on the changed metadata thereby giving the user instant validation of the change without requiring administrative (IT) assistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Brown, Louis Rakotoarivony, Alexandre Fortin
  • Publication number: 20170357668
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for customizing a geospatial visualization. In one example, a method includes receiving a geospatial file that when executed displays an outline of a geographic area divided into predefined regions, generating a modified display for the for the geographic area based on a data file that configures customized regions for the geographic area, where the customized regions are different than the predefined regions, and displaying the generated modified display for the geographic area comprising an outline of the geographic area divided into the customized regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Alexandre Fortin, Yannick Besnehard
  • Publication number: 20170195449
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for extracting business intelligence from data stored in a remote database includes providing a smart proxy module configured to run as a background process on a client computing device for interactions with the remote database, and setting up a local cache, on the client computing device, to cache a copy of a dataset stored in the remote database. The method further includes operating a business intelligence tool on the client computing device to extract business intelligence information from the locally cached copy of the dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: David Mobbs, Alexandre Fortin
  • Publication number: 20170115034
    Abstract: An assembly of units comprised of mirrors assembled along at least one parabolic arc, each mirror having two opposing lateral edges and opposing longitudinal internal and external edges, each of the two mirrors being longitudinally secured to the other mirror along their respective longitudinal internal edges by at least one securing device positioned at the centre of the parabolic arc; and secured at each lateral edge to the wheel supports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: JACQUES-ALEXANDRE FORTIN, MATHIEU CHAGNON, RAPHAEL LAVABRE, PHILIPPE CALVÉ
  • Publication number: 20140182578
    Abstract: A solar concentrator comprising at least one rigid parabolic self-supporting solar collector comprising at least one parabolic reflector and at least one heat collector rigidly supported above a reflective surface of the parabolic reflector; and a positioning unit configured for positioning the solar collector into an operation position for reception of solar beams by the parabolic reflector, and into a rest position in which the reflective surface of said parabolic reflector and the heat collector are at least partly under cover of a back surface of the parabolic reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: 6637418 CANADA INC. CARRYING ON BUSINESS AS RACKAM
    Inventors: Jacques-Alexandre Fortin, Mathieu Chagnon, Stephane Baribeau
  • Patent number: 7567587
    Abstract: A method and architecture for the extraction of data from or the insertion of data into Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) frames is disclosed. The method and architecture provides an interface that permits the time-multiplexed data streams being extracted or inserted to have variable data-rates and no fixed alignment with respect to each other. The extraction and insertion interface accommodates for variable POH data rates and alignment inconsistencies of POH bytes amongst different paths due to floating pointer positions. The interface operates at the lowest possible frequency that can still accommodate the minimum spacing between any two consecutive words of data for a given data stream. In the insertion case, the frequency of operation chosen also allows the pipelining of requests as well as the pipelining of the subsequent associated data in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: PMC-Sierra, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Mlazgar, Pierre Vaillancourt, Alexandre Fortin