Patents by Inventor Colin Alworth

Colin Alworth 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).

  • Analysis of time-based geospatial mashups using AD HOC visual queries
    Patent number: 8230333
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example has an analytical environment for mashup data having visual analysis metaphors, and linking and correlation functionality among the visual analysis metaphors. A system may have: at least one store having a predetermined floor plan layout; at least one predetermined location on the predetermined floor plan layout for displaying at least one product; analytical environment for mashup data having visual analysis metaphors, the mashup data formed from data indiciative of the predetermined floor plan layout, and data indicated of sales of the at least one product; and linking and correlation functionality among the visual analysis metaphors through a web browser. In one example, a plurality of products may be positioned on a plurality of shelves, and may be depicted in a geographical display. Sales of each product may be depicted in a in time line display that is linked to the geographical display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: VisTracks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Decherd, Colin Alworth, Brian Horst, Kurt David Rivard, Stephen Gregory Eick, M. Andrew Eick, Andrzej Wolosewicz, James Kowalski, Jesse Adam Fugitt
  • Analysis of time-based geospatial mashups using AD HOC visual queries
    Publication number: 20090172511
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example has an analytical environment for mashup data having visual analysis metaphors, and linking and correlation functionality among the visual analysis metaphors. A system may have: at least one store having a predetermined floor plan layout; at least one predetermined location on the predetermined floor plan layout for displaying at least one product; analytical environment for mashup data having visual analysis metaphors, the mashup data formed from data indiciative of the predetermined floor plan layout, and data indicated of sales of the at least one product; and linking and correlation functionality among the visual analysis metaphors through a web browser. In one example, a plurality of products may be positioned on a plurality of shelves, and may be depicted in a geographical display. Sales of each product may be depicted in a in time line display that is linked to the geographical display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Alexander Decherd, Colin Alworth, Brian Horst, Kurt David Rivard, Stephen Gregory Eick, M. Andrew Eick, Andrzej Wolosewicz, James Kowalski, Jesse Adam Fugitt