Patents by Inventor Gail E. McGiffin

Gail E. McGiffin 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: 8788295
    Abstract: A system is configured to allow a business user to define insurance products based upon reusable product/offering definitions. The reusable product/offerings definitions may include reusable insurance based components and templates, which permit a business user of the software to develop and configure insurance products based upon a hierarchical set of insurance product components and insurance product templates. In addition, the system combines componentization, flexible granularity and reusable product structures to permit a user to more rapidly and predictably generate insurance product configurations and flexibly tailor the insurance products or offerings to meet a specific client or market need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Wargin, Gail E. McGiffin, Timothy E. LeCam
  • Patent number: 8386346
    Abstract: A method of evaluating underwriting activities of a company providing insurance coverage is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of storing data related to the underwriting activities for the company; receiving information from employees related to tasks associated with the underwriting activities; analyzing the information from the employees; and generating a report based upon the information from employees. A system for evaluating underwriting activities for a company is also disclosed. The system comprising a user computer storing a program containing questions related to tasks for underwriting activities; a server coupled to the user computer to receive information entered by a plurality of users related to tasks for underwriting activities; and a report generated by the server and providing analyzed information related to responses of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kathryn A. Magner, Laurie Mahoney, Shelley Smith, Gail E. McGiffin, Kevin W. MacIntosh, Steven I. Kauderer
  • Publication number: 20120271664
    Abstract: An account management system has been developed that enables customer or client-related information to be stored, viewed and manipulated in a manner that reflects the relationship among different customers. The account management system includes an account data structure that defines accounts and relates customers to accounts so that the accounts include a group of related customers. In addition, a method of managing an underwriting account for an insurance policy has been developed. In particular, a method comprises the steps of establishing a plurality of participants, assigning each participant of the plurality of participants to an account, establishing business rules at an account level, and providing an underwriting decision for an account based upon the business rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Gail E. McGiffin, Jason A. Birdsell, Jeffrey R. Rauch, Devdas Nandan, Patrick J. Corless
  • Patent number: 8271305
    Abstract: An account management system has been developed that enables customer or client-related information to be stored, viewed and manipulated in a manner that reflects the relationship among different customers. The account management system includes an account data structure that defines accounts and relates customers to accounts so that the accounts include a group of related customers. In addition, a method of managing an underwriting account for an insurance policy has been developed. In particular, a method comprises the steps of establishing a plurality of participants; assigning each participant of the plurality of participants to an account; establishing business rules at an account level; and providing an underwriting decision for an account based upon the business rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Gail E. McGiffin, Jason A. Birdsell, Jeffrey R. Rauch, Devdas Nandan, Patrick J. Corless
  • Publication number: 20100205015
    Abstract: An account management system has been developed that enables customer or client-related information to be stored, viewed and manipulated in a manner that reflects the relationship among different customers. The account management system includes an account data structure that defines accounts and relates customers to accounts so that the accounts include a group of related customers. In addition, a method of managing an underwriting account for an insurance policy has been developed. In particular, a method comprises the steps of establishing a plurality of participants; assigning each participant of the plurality of participants to an account; establishing business rules at an account level; and providing an underwriting decision for an account based upon the business rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Gail E. McGiffin, Jason A. Birdsell, Jeffrey R. Rauch, Devdas Nandan, Patrick J. Corless
  • Patent number: 7685008
    Abstract: An account management system has been developed that enables customer or client-related information to be stored, viewed and manipulated in a manner that reflects the relationship among different customers. The account management system includes an account data structure that defines accounts and relates customers to accounts so that the accounts include a group of related customers. In addition, a method of managing an underwriting account for an insurance policy has been developed. In particular, a method comprises the steps of establishing a plurality of participants; assigning each participant of the plurality of participants to an account; establishing business rules at an account level; and providing an underwriting decision for an account based upon the business rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventors: Gail E. McGiffin, Jason A. Birdsell, Jeffrey R. Rauch, Devdas Nandan, Patrick J. Corless
  • Publication number: 20080040168
    Abstract: A method of evaluating underwriting activities of a company providing insurance coverage is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of storing data related to the underwriting activities for the company; receiving information from employees related to tasks associated with the underwriting activities; analyzing the information from the employees; and generating a report based upon the information from employees. A system for evaluating underwriting activities for a company is also disclosed. The system comprising a user computer storing a proram containing questions related to tasks for underwriting activities; a server coupled to the user computer to receive information entered by a plurality of users related to tasks for underwriting activities; and a report generated by the server and providing analyzed information related to responses of the plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Kathryn A. Magner, Laurie Mahoney, Shelley Smith, Gail E. McGiffin, Kevin W. Maclntosh, Steven I. Kauderer
  • Publication number: 20040172317
    Abstract: A risk analysis system that takes an outcome oriented approach to analyzing risk assessment, training risk assessors as to best practices for assessing risk, and enabling monitoring of compliance with the best practices (the “System”) is presented herein. The goal of the System is to determine compliance of risk assessment processes with best practices in the past and into the future using various performance measures such as economic gain and lost cost opportunities, identify in which phase of the risk assessment life-cycle these performance measures are the greatest, and focus improvement, training and monitoring efforts on these risk assessment phases using a hands-on-based approach. The System includes a group of procedures, methodologies, questionnaires, software, hardware and analyses to analyze risk assessment processes by developing or improving best practices, providing training as to the best practices, and enabling the monitoring of compliance with the best practices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Nancy J. Davis, Steven Ira Kauderer, Gail E. McGiffin, Rose Mary Ciraulo, Kathleen Ziegler, Anthony G. Tempesta
  • Publication number: 20040172311
    Abstract: A method of evaluating underwriting activities of a company providing insurance coverage is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of storing data related to the underwriting activities for the company; receiving information from employees related to tasks associated with the underwriting activities; analyzing the information from the employees; and generating a report based upon the information from employees. A system for evaluating underwriting activities for a company is also disclosed. The system comprising a user computer storing a program containing questions related to tasks for underwriting activities; a server coupled to the user computer to receive information entered by a plurality of users related to tasks for underwriting activities; and a report generated by the server and providing and providing analyzed information related to responses of the plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Steven I. Kauderer, Kathryn A. Magner, Laurie Mahoney, Shelley Smith, Gail E. McGiffin, Kevin W. Macintosh