Patents by Inventor Arthur Vincent Richards

Arthur Vincent Richards 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).

  • Enhanced metadata tracking in a change management system
    Patent number: 10983787
    Abstract: A change management system generates change records corresponding to changes to tracked documents, and stores a master control file comprising metadata records that respectively correspond to the tracked documents and which comprise a tracked metadata field and a time field. Responsive to detecting that a change to a given document is of a predefined type, the tracked metadata field in the corresponding metadata record is modified, and the time field in that metadata record is updated accordingly. In response to a problem event, it is determined that the problem event relates to the given document, and, based on the time field, a subset of the change records is selected. Each change record in the subset corresponds to the given document. A problem change record is identified from the change records in the subset, and used to revert the given document to a state previous to the problem event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Alan Goldstein, Arthur Vincent Richards
  • Enhanced Metadata Tracking in a Change Management System
    Publication number: 20190155599
    Abstract: A change management system generates change records corresponding to changes to tracked documents, and stores a master control file comprising metadata records that respectively correspond to the tracked documents and which comprise a tracked metadata field and a time field. Responsive to detecting that a change to a given document is of a predefined type, the tracked metadata field in the corresponding metadata record is modified, and the time field in that metadata record is updated accordingly. In response to a problem event, it is determined that the problem event relates to the given document, and, based on the time field, a subset of the change records is selected. Each change record in the subset corresponds to the given document. A problem change record is identified from the change records in the subset, and used to revert the given document to a state previous to the problem event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Edward Alan Goldstein, Arthur Vincent Richards
  • Enhanced metadata tracking in a change management system
    Patent number: 10185557
    Abstract: A change management system generates change records corresponding to changes to tracked documents, and stores a master control file comprising metadata records that respectively correspond to the tracked documents and which comprise a tracked metadata field and a time field. Responsive to detecting that a change to a given document is of a predefined type, the tracked metadata field in the corresponding metadata record is modified, and the time field in that metadata record is updated accordingly. In response to a problem event, it is determined that the problem event relates to the given document, and, based on the time field, a subset of the change records is selected. Each change record in the subset corresponds to the given document. A problem change record is identified from the change records in the subset, and used to revert the given document to a state previous to the problem event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Alan Goldstein, Arthur Vincent Richards
  • Enhanced Metadata Tracking in a Change Management System
    Publication number: 20170123932
    Abstract: A change management system generates change records corresponding to changes to tracked documents, and stores a master control file comprising metadata records that respectively correspond to the tracked documents and which comprise a tracked metadata field and a time field. Responsive to detecting that a change to a given document is of a predefined type, the tracked metadata field in the corresponding metadata record is modified, and the time field in that metadata record is updated accordingly. In response to a problem event, it is determined that the problem event relates to the given document, and, based on the time field, a subset of the change records is selected. Each change record in the subset corresponds to the given document. A problem change record is identified from the change records in the subset, and used to revert the given document to a state previous to the problem event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Edward Alan Goldstein, Arthur Vincent Richards