Patents by Inventor Damon W. Smith

Damon W. Smith 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).

  • System and method for asynchronous control of report generation using a network interface
    Patent number: 6279033
    Abstract: An OLAP system with decision support technology for enabling a user to asynchronously generate report requests through a web browser or other user interface module connected over a network to the OLAP system. Once the request is received by the server, the web browser is freed to enable the user to conduct other activities including the requesting of other reports while the first requested report is processing. The server maintains a list of reports requested. With each request for a report received, the system determines whether a similar report has been requested and either generates the report if the report has not been previously requested or adds a request by that user to a report list of a report that has been previously requested without processing the report again. If the requested report was already completed, the results are immediately returned to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Microstrategy, Inc.
    Inventors: Inbarajan Selvarajan, Damon W. Smith, Lee C. Harold, Ali Alavi