Patents by Inventor Gary Nowacki

Gary Nowacki 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: 11100468
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage device, for receiving a first request for a particular document relating to a food ingredient supplier or an ingredient supplied by the food ingredient supplier, from a first customer of the food ingredient supplier, receiving a second request for the particular document, from a different, second customer of the food ingredient supplier, providing, to the food ingredient supplier, an interface including a representation of the first and second requests, receiving, from the food ingredient supplier, the document relating to the food ingredient supplier or the ingredient supplier by the food ingredient supplier, and an indication that the document is to be distributed to both the first customer and the second customer, and in response to indication, providing the document to both the first customer and the second customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Information Exchange Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Dolan, Gary Nowacki
  • Publication number: 20210049552
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage device, for receiving a first request for a particular document relating to a food ingredient supplier or an ingredient supplied by the food ingredient supplier, from a first customer of the food ingredient supplier, receiving a second request for the particular document, from a different, second customer of the food ingredient supplier, providing, to the food ingredient supplier, an interface including a representation of the first and second requests, receiving, from the food ingredient supplier, the document relating to the food ingredient supplier or the ingredient supplier by the food ingredient supplier, and an indication that the document is to be distributed to both the first customer and the second customer, and in response to indication, providing the document to both the first customer and the second customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew J. Dolan, Gary Nowacki
  • Patent number: 10783495
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage device, for receiving a first request for a particular document relating to a food ingredient supplier or an ingredient supplied by the food ingredient supplier, from a first customer of the food ingredient supplier, receiving a second request for the particular document, from a different, second customer of the food ingredient supplier, providing, to the food ingredient supplier, an interface including a representation of the first and second requests, receiving, from the food ingredient supplier, the document relating to the food ingredient supplier or the ingredient supplier by the food ingredient supplier, and an indication that the document is to be distributed to both the first customer and the second customer, and in response to indication, providing the document to both the first customer and the second customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Information Exchange Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Dolan, Gary Nowacki
  • Publication number: 20120209890
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for evaluating inter-enterprise ingredient specification compliance. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining one or more normalized values that reflect an extent to which a supplier entity has satisfied an expectation of a receiver entity, populating a global ingredient database that references different ingredients, and different supplier entities and attributes associated with each ingredient, with the normalized values, receiving a user's selection of an ingredient, a supplier entity, or an attribute, aggregating one or more of the normalized values that are associated with the selected ingredient, supplier entity, or attribute in the global ingredient database, and outputting a representation of the aggregated values to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: AGINFOLINK HOLDINGS INC., A BVI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary Nowacki, Andrew J. Dolan, William R. Pape
  • Publication number: 20120158602
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for measuring intra-enterprise ingredient specification compliance. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a document pertaining to particular shipment of an ingredient from a supplier, automatically determining, from the document, a value or a range of values for each of one or more attributes associated with the ingredient, accessing a specification that indicates a value or a range of values for each attribute, comparing, for each attribute, the value or range of values from the document to the specification value or range of values for the attribute, to identify an extent to which the attribute in the particular shipment of the ingredient satisfies the specification; and automatically taking action on the shipment based on the extent to which the shipment satisfies the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Aginfolink Holdings, Inc., a BVI Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Dolan, William R. Pape, Gary Nowacki