Patents by Inventor Christine E. Dicken

Christine E. Dicken 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: 20090055203
    Abstract: Program code (36) executed on a system (20) entails a method (98) for analysis of a business process (16). The method (98) obtains a model (42) of the business process (16) identifying actions (106) that are part of the business process (16). Each action (106) is categorized into an action category (53) according to an action verb (84) that describes the action (106), and a quantity (146) of actions (106) for each action category (53) is computed. Actions (106) are also identified as being either a primary action (90) or a support action (92). A report (22) is assembled and provided so that a user can visualize the efficacy of the business process (16). The report (22) includes visual representations of quantities (146) of actions (106) in each action category (53) and amounts of actions (106) that are primary actions (90) relative to support actions (92).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
    Inventors: Christine E. Dicken, Gregory L. Yung