Patents by Inventor David J Van De Van

David J Van De Van 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: 7676407
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for an online purchasing system. In one embodiment, the online system includes business logic for approving a purchase requisition having a plurality of itemized goods and service and requiring approval by a plurality of authorized approvers on a line item by line item basis. An approval table defining identified authorized approver and conditions under which the authorized approvers must approve specified line items in a particular purchase request is generated by the online purchasing system to enable approvers of the purchase requisition to monitor the status of the particular purchase request. In a second embodiment, the online purchasing system through extracting business logic identified a second group of authorized approver and conditions under which the authorized approvers must approve specified line items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David J Van De Van, Prashant Sinha, Moshin Dawoodbhai