Patents by Inventor Frank E. Orchard

Frank E. Orchard 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).

  • Virtual private supply chain
    Patent number: 8661021
    Abstract: A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: PTC Inc.
    Inventors: John Merrow Davies, Gary Casamento, Mahendra Kumar, Thomas J. Hilferty, Lisayani Tejolesmono, Frank E. Orchard, Lawrence Flon, Michael Gary Anderson, Leslie Casamento
  • Virtual Private Supply Chain
    Publication number: 20120017082
    Abstract: A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: John Merrow Davies, Gary Casamento, Mahendra Kumar, Thomas J. Hilferty, Lisayani Tejolesmono, Frank E. Orchard, Lawrence Flon, Michael Gary Anderson, Leslie Casamento
  • Virtual private supply chain
    Patent number: 8032552
    Abstract: A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Servigistics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Merrow Davies, Gary Casamento, Mahendra Kumar, Thomas J. Hilferty, Lisayani Tejolesmono, Frank E. Orchard, Lawrence Flon, Michael Gary Anderson, Leslie Casamento
  • VIRTUAL PRIVATE SUPPLY CHAIN
    Publication number: 20090307599
    Abstract: A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: CLICK ACQUISITIONS, INC.
    Inventors: John Merrow Davies, Gary Casamento, Mahendra Kumar, Thomas J. Hilferty, Lisayani Tejolesmono, Frank E. Orchard, Lawrence Flon, Michael Gary Anderson, Leslie Casamento
  • Virtual private supply chain
    Patent number: 7571166
    Abstract: A generic Internet based system for viewing supply chain data is provided. The system includes an Internet based data viewing engine and a data store that holds both viewable data and metadata associated with the viewable data. The metadata can be employed by the Internet based data viewing engine to control the presentation of the viewable data. The generic Internet based supply chain data viewing engine may be employed in a virtual private supply chain (VPSC). A VPSC includes a data acceptor that can receive supply chain data items from supply chain members, a supply chain data store that can store transformed, validated supply chain data items received from the supply chain members and a data accessor operable to selectively present supply chain data items stored in the supply chain data store to viewing supply chain members. One example of the data accessor is the generic Internet based viewing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Click Acquisitions, Inc.
    Inventors: John Merrow Davies, Gary Casamento, Mahendra Kumar, Thomas J. Hilferty, Lisayani Tejolesmono, Frank E. Orchard, Lawrence Flon, Michael Gary Anderson, Leslie Casamento