Patents by Inventor Eric J. Kohut

Eric J. Kohut 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).

  • Chaining database records that represent a single customer or multiple customers living in a household
    Patent number: 6912540
    Abstract: A data-processing technique improves the process of “householding” customer data in a company's relational database system. The process involves combining data from two or more attribute columns in one or more relational tables to form a single column of concatenated data. The concatenated data is used in identifying two or more records that share a common value, which indicates that the records all represent a particular customer. A unique identification value is assigned to this customer and is stored with each of the identified records. In some embodiments, the process is used in identifying records that represent multiple customers living together in a single household.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Eric J. Kohut, James E. Pricer
  • Chaining database records that represent a single customer or multiple customers living in a household
    Publication number: 20020184222
    Abstract: A data-processing technique improves the process of “householding” customer data in a company's relational database system. The process involves combining data from two or more attribute columns in one or more relational tables to form a single column of concatenated data. The concatenated data is used in identifying two or more records that share a common value, which indicates that the records all represent a particular customer. A unique identification value is assigned to this customer and is stored with each of the identified records. In some embodiments, the process is used in identifying records that represent multiple customers living together in a single household.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Eric J. Kohut, James E. Pricer