Patents by Inventor Aubrey E. Hill

Aubrey E. Hill 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).

  • Method and system for ensuring completeness and quality of a multi-component project
    Patent number: 6493693
    Abstract: A method for ensuring completeness and quality of a project or proposed change to a complex system including modeling the system as a plurality of nodes and storing the nodes in a database, each node being representative of a component or sub-system of the complex system, identifying relationships among the nodes, loading each node with a plurality of questions relating to the component represented by each node, and generating a listing including the questions, answers thereto and a time associated with accomplishing the proposed change or project. An apparatus for implementing the method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
    Inventor: Aubrey E. Hill