Patents by Inventor Gilbert Van Cutsem

Gilbert Van Cutsem 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).

  • System and method for software application usage metering using data store
    Patent number: 10026069
    Abstract: A system and method for usage metering software applications (or features or functions) by monitoring the data store underlying the software application. The data store function may be implemented in many ways, such as a Relational Database, Transactional Database, Network and Graph Database, Object-Oriented Database, Embedded Database, In-memory Database, Schema-less Database, Files and Directories, whether structured or unstructured, Configuration Registries, or Non-traditional Repositories. Business activities performed by the software application are tracked and are independent of hardware usage. Such usage data is valuable in a variety of contexts, including billing based on business activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Actian Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert Van Cutsem, Woan-Yoke Lau, Jeff Chapman, Tom Bates, Jan Daley
  • System and Method for Software Application Usage Metering Using Data Store
    Publication number: 20150032415
    Abstract: A system and method for usage metering software applications (or features or functions) by monitoring the data store underlying the software application. The data store function may be implemented in many ways, such as a Relational Database, Transactional Database, Network and Graph Database, Object-Oriented Database, Embedded Database, In-memory Database, Schema-less Database, Files and Directories, whether structured or unstructured, Configuration Registries, or Non-traditional Repositories. Business activities performed by the software application are tracked and are independent of hardware usage. Such usage data is valuable in a variety of contexts, including billing based on business activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Gilbert Van Cutsem, Woan-Yoke Lau, Jeff Chapman, Tom Bates, Jan Daley