Patents by Inventor George A. Hansen

George A. Hansen 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: 8732609
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a visual scrollbar position indicator whereby data included in a defined data field, or other data, associated with each entry in a list of entries is selected for display and as the list of entries is being scrolled through, the data included in the defined data field, or other data, associated with each entry in the list of entries selected for display is displayed to the user as each entry is passed, i.e., scrolled through, and as the scrolling is in progress, i.e., while the scrolling function is still activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell D. Bayersdorfer, George A. Hansen
  • Patent number: 8401942
    Abstract: A system that determines a standard payee name for a payee is presented. During operation, the system receives a non-standard payee name, wherein the non-standard payee name can be a user-defined payee name, which is defined by a user, or a normalized payee name, which is defined by a financial institution. Next, the system determines whether the non-standard payee name is associated with the standard payee name by using the non-standard payee name to search through data structures containing associations between one or more of the following: user-defined payee names and normalized payee names; user-defined payee names and standard payee names; and normalized payee names and standard payee names. If the non-standard payee name is associated with a standard payee name, the system can perform specified actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: George A. Hansen, Marko Rukonic, Benjamin R. Weiss, Jim Del Favero
  • Patent number: 8078516
    Abstract: A method for managing financial data involves parsing a digital file to obtain metadata describing the digital file, where the digital file includes financial data. The method further involves importing the digital file to a financial management application, identifying a record in the financial management application that is associated with the digital file, based on metadata describing the digital file, and linking the digital file to the record in the financial management application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Weiss, James R. Del Favero, Todd Matthew Fitch, George A. Hansen
  • Patent number: 8060423
    Abstract: Financial data associated with one or more “contributing consumers” is obtained from one or more sources and categorized and associated with a specific expense/income category. One or more attributes associated with the contributing consumers are then identified and used to analyze, aggregate, and categorize the financial data according to the attributes. Data representing a user financial transaction is then obtained for categorization and one or more specific user attributes associated with the user are identified. The user financial transaction is then categorized based, at least in part, on the categorization of similar contributing consumer financial transactions by contributing consumers having at least one of the specific user attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Marko Rukonic, James Robert Del Favero, Chris Lee, George A. Hansen, Benjamin Weiss, Barron R. Ernst
  • Patent number: 7865412
    Abstract: A method for account tracking that includes receiving a request to generate a report for a business entity, wherein the request specifies a tag associated with the business entity, identifying a plurality of transaction records based on the tag to obtain a plurality of identified transaction records for the business entity, assigning a business category from a plurality of business categories to at least one of the plurality of identified transaction records not associated with one of the plurality of business categories, and generating the report for the business entity by grouping the plurality of identified transaction records according to the plurality of business categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Weiss, James R. Del Favero, George A. Hansen, Glynis L. Hively, David R. Larsen
  • Patent number: 7797216
    Abstract: A financial data management application sets up a placeholder entry for entered current holdings information in which all the historical transactions that led to the current holdings have not been accounted for. Backfill transactions may be entered later on to update the placeholder entry with all or part of the historical transactions that led to the current holdings. If a backfill transaction is entered, the placeholder entry is adjusted to reflect the backfill transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Larsen, Katherine A. Welker, George A Hansen, Joseph W. Wells, III, Karen Tomlinson, Glynis L. Hively
  • Patent number: 7680708
    Abstract: A method for associating a tax-line item to a user transaction in a financial management software application including obtaining the user transaction by the financial management software application, associating a first tax line item with the user transaction, where the tax line item is selected by accepting input from a user separately from categorizing the transaction, and presenting the user transaction and the first tax line item selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Augustine Mooney, George A. Hansen, Glynis L. Hively, David Raymond Larsen
  • Publication number: 20090276346
    Abstract: A system that automatically classifies a financial transaction as a recurring financial transaction based on classification data obtained from a set of users is presented. The system can also determine the frequency at which the recurring financial transaction repeats. If the financial transaction is classified as a recurring financial transaction, the system can mark the financial transaction as a recurring financial transaction. Alternatively, the system can notify the user that the classification data indicates that the financial transaction can be classified as a recurring financial transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Marko Rukonic, George A. Hansen, Benjamin R. Weiss, Jim Del Favero
  • Publication number: 20090228356
    Abstract: A system that determines a standard payee name for a payee is presented. During operation, the system receives a non-standard payee name, wherein the non-standard payee name can be a user-defined payee name, which is defined by a user, or a normalized payee name, which is defined by a financial institution. Next, the system determines whether the non-standard payee name is associated with the standard payee name by using the non-standard payee name to search through data structures containing associations between one or more of the following: user-defined payee names and normalized payee names; user-defined payee names and standard payee names; and normalized payee names and standard payee names. If the non-standard payee name is associated with a standard payee name, the system can perform specified actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: George A. Hansen, Marko Rukonic, Benjamin R. Weiss, Jim Del Favero
  • Publication number: 20090037264
    Abstract: A method and system for providing coupons to select consumers includes a process for providing coupons to select consumers whereby a coupon provider defines one or more coupon eligibility criterion that must be met by a consumer in order for the consumer to be eligible to receive one or more coupons. Access to data representing the one or more coupon eligibility criterion is then provided. A consumer's financial data is then obtained from one or more sources using a computing system implemented financial management system. In one embodiment, using the consumer's financial data and the data representing the one or more coupon eligibility criterion, one or more coupons are identified that the consumer is eligible to receive. In one embodiment, the consumer is then provided access to the one or more coupons identified that the consumer is eligible to receive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: James Robert Del Favero, Lisa Cohen Gevelber, Roy Matthew Rosin, George A. Hansen, Michael Fitzgibbon, Paul Jeffrey Rosenfeld, John W. Zackrison
  • Patent number: 5790120
    Abstract: A user interface has a mini-program window display means, a launch selection area display means and an activating means. The mini-program window display means displays a plurality of mini-program windows within a first panel interface. Each mini-program window has a first background pattern. Each mini-program window represents a virtual computing screen. Mini-windows shown in the mini-program windows each represent an application window displayed in the represented virtual computing screen. The launch selection area display means displays a plurality of application launch selection areas within a second panel interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Starfish Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Lozares, George A. Hansen
  • Patent number: 5754174
    Abstract: A user interface has a main module and a plurality of panel modules. The main module presents the user interface on the display screen to a user. The plurality of panel modules are in communication with the main module. Each panel module presents a panel interface on the display screen to the user. Each panel module is individually configurable and each panel is configurable as part of the user interface presented by the main module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Starfish Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Claudia Carpenter, George A. Hansen, Beatrice M. Y. Lam, Lawrence Lozares, Krisztina Mako, Paul A. Mernyk, Robert Chris Robnett
  • Patent number: 5659693
    Abstract: A user interface has a main module and a plurality of panel modules. The main module presents the user interface on the display screen to a user. The plurality of panel modules are in communication with the main module. Each panel module presents a panel interface on the display screen to the user. Each panel module is individually configurable and each panel module is configurable as part of the user interface presented by the main module. In the preferred embodiment, the displayed user interface and individual panel interfaces may be varied in size in two dimensions. The user interface can be displayed with a vertical or horizontal orientation. Also, a calendar and resource gauge with unique features are included among the panel interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Starfish Software, Inc.
    Inventors: George A. Hansen, Robert C. Robnett, Lawrence Lozares, Paul A. Mernyk
  • Patent number: 5602997
    Abstract: A dashboard interface includes a plurality of software buttons provided on a panel. Each software button represents one of a plurality of applications. Upon a user selecting a first software button, a first application represented by the first software button is started. Upon a user selecting and dragging a visual representation of a second application to the panel, a new software button representing the second application is added to the panel. Upon a user selecting a different software button size in a configuration menu, the size of each software button in the plurality of software buttons is changed. The plurality of applications are listed in a configuration menu. The order in which the plurality of software buttons is displayed on the panel reflects the order of the listing of the plurality of applications. Upon a user changing the order of the listing of the plurality of applications, the order in which the plurality of software buttons is displayed on the panel is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Starfish Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Claudia Carpenter, George A. Hansen, Beatrice M. Y. Lam, Lawrence Lozares, Krisztina Mako, Paul A. Mernyk, Robert C. Robnett
  • Patent number: 4078004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery of a new catalyst support and in methods for the preparation of olefinic oxidation products such as unsaturated acids, nitriles, and aldehydes. The novel support for the oxidation catalysts is expanded, crushed perlite, that is, volcanic glass which has been expanded to tiny hollow bubbles by heat which are then fractured. Perlite is a siliceous material largely of SiO.sub.2. Surprisingly, it is greatly superior to the commonly used amorphous, colloidal silica as a support, as well as to other known supports. The result is high productivity of desired products over a prolonged period of operation, high selectivity over a prolonged period of operation and prolonged life of the oxidation catalyst systems. The invention is preferably employed in the preparation of unsaturated aliphatic acids such as methacrylic acids and unsaturated aldehydes such as methacrolein by the oxidation of the appropriate aldehyde or olefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1978
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Francis W. Schlaefer, George A. Hansen