Patents by Inventor Arthur G. McAleer

Arthur G. McAleer 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: 20020087566
    Abstract: A preferred embodiment of the subject invention comprises a database architecture for identifying relationships between entities related to companies and methods for using that architecture to identify desired information about the companies and relationships between the companies and entities associated therewith. The architecture comprises a first set of data elements that represent companies; a second set of data elements that represent entities affiliated with one or more companies represented in the first set of data elements; and a third set of data elements that represent relationships between the first set of data elements and the second set of data elements. In a preferred embodiment, a directed, acyclic graph is used to represent the data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Arthur G. McAleer, William T. Neveitt