Patents by Inventor Daryl Geoffrey Porter

Daryl Geoffrey Porter 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).

  • Patent number: 7734696
    Abstract: The present invention is a system, method, and computer program product that provides the capability by which changes in an organization can be automatically reflected in the organization's mailing lists and access lists. The email messaging system comprises a mailing list generator operable to receive information relating to an organizational hierarchy and generate from the received information a plurality of mailing lists, at least some of the mailing lists relating to a member of the organizational hierarchy to whom at one other member of the organizational hierarchy reports and an archiver/forwarder operable to receive an email message including an address identifying at least one of the plurality of mailing lists, access the mailing list to obtain email addresses for members of the mailing list, and send the email message to the obtained email addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Donald H. Osterberg, Jr., Daryl Geoffrey Porter
  • Patent number: 7069263
    Abstract: A method, system, computer program product, and database connectivity layer provides the capability to capture data over time so that trend analysis may be performed that does not require modifications to the data model and the data processing applications. A method of automatically capturing data for trend analysis comprises the steps of: receiving a query for data from a database application, issuing the received query to a database management system, receiving a response to the query from the database management system, the response indicating a result dataset, creating or updating a database table that is suitable for trend analysis, and populating or updating the database table with data from the result dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David Randall Yee, Daryl Geoffrey Porter
  • Publication number: 20030191806
    Abstract: The present invention is a system, method, and computer program product that provides the capability by which changes in an organization can be automatically reflected in the organization's mailing lists and access lists. The email messaging system comprises a mailing list generator operable to receive information relating to an organizational hierarchy and generate from the received information a plurality of mailing lists, at least some of the mailing lists relating to a member of the organizational hierarchy to whom at one other member of the organizational hierarchy reports and an archiver/forwarder operable to receive an email message including an address identifying at least one of the plurality of mailing lists, access the mailing list to obtain email addresses for members of the mailing list, and send the email message to the obtained email addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Donald H. Osterberg, Daryl Geoffrey Porter