Patents by Inventor Francine G. Grimmer

Francine G. Grimmer 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: 6438544
    Abstract: To address the requirements described above, the present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing access and accepting changes to personal information stored in a data warehouse. The method comprises the steps of accepting a privacy information request from a client, retrieving privacy metadata describing the selected privacy information, translating the privacy information request to a data warehouse-compliant query using the privacy information metadata, and transmitting the query to the data warehouse. The apparatus comprises a program storage device tangibly embodying instructions for performing the method steps above. The apparatus comprises a privacy metadata subsystem, communicatively coupled to a data warehouse for retrieving privacy metadata and a consumer access subsystem communicatively coupled to the data warehouse and the privacy metadata subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Francine G. Grimmer, John Mark Chapra