Patents by Inventor Guy Jonathan James Rackham

Guy Jonathan James Rackham 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).

  • Publication number: 20080221940
    Abstract: The method and system uses the component business model as a framework for locating business activities. Business value drivers are identified, related in an influence model, and structured into a prioritized driver tree. The driver tree is used to determine the relative contributions of leaf drivers to the overall value of the business. Business activities contributing to the leaf drivers are then identified, and the relative contributions of the leaf drivers are allocated to the business activities and then rolled up to the components for display as a heat map overlay on a component map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: David L. Cohn, Robert Delamarter Dill, George M. Galambos, Robert H. Guttman, Raman Harishankar, David Robert Kress, Clifford Alan Pickover, Simon Plackett, Guy Jonathan James Rackham, Shanker Ramamurthy, John R. Smith, Stephen Michael Smith, John George Vergo
  • Publication number: 20080215398
    Abstract: A method and system are described for using the structure and relationships between components in a component business model of an enterprise to assign components providing monitoring data to a management component. In response to the monitoring data, the management component executes a business rule invoking a service that alters a behavior of the enterprise. The management component contains data rules limiting the information provided by the assigned components, analysis rules defining the interaction between components, and report rules for consolidating recommendations for altering behavior of the enterprise, including decisions to invest in certain aspects of the business, to reengineer certain processes of the business, and to alter operation of certain aspects of the business.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: David L. Cohn, Robert Delamarter Dill, David Bernard Flaxer, George M. Galambos, Robert H. Guttman, Raman Harishankar, David Robert Kress, Clifford Alan Pickover, Guy Jonathan James Rackham, Shanker Ramamurthy, John R. Smith, Stephen Michael Smith, John George Vergo
  • Publication number: 20080208661
    Abstract: A method and system are described for using business artifacts to identify elements of a component business model. Artifacts operated upon by the business are first identified, and then used to analyze the business into business operations. This is done by identifying every business activity that acts on an artifact, creating directed graphs for the business activities, and decomposing the directed graphs into sub-graphs, each sub-graph representing a business operation and being annotated by a verb expression, the annotated sub-graph representing a business service. The business services are then clustered into non-overlapping components, using common affinities reflected in the verb expressions, and organized by partitioning into internal and external operations, exposing a business service for each external operation. The components are then clustered into non-overlapping business competencies, and arranged by accountability level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: David Bernard FLAXER, Anil Nigam, Guy Jonathan James Rackham, John George Vergo
  • Publication number: 20080201195
    Abstract: A system and method are described for using a Component Business Model (CBM) to transform a business. A CBM map is used to identify components that collaborate to provide a specified capability, and a repository supporting the CBM map is filtered to provide a view of the identified components that highlights how they collaborate. The view is used to identify component features contributing to the specified capability. The specified capability is then enhanced by a transformation strategy that includes re-engineering particular components, identifying a pattern characterizing the collaboration between components and adding a component to perform the collaborative pattern, and/or adding an additional feature to the collaboration and adding component to perform the additional feature. The CBM repository provides exemplar best practices that can be adapted for use in a re-engineered component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: David L. COHN, Robert Delamarter Dill, George M. Galambos, Robert H. Guttman, Raman Harishankar, David Robert Kress, Clifford Alan Pickover, Guy Jonathan James Rackham, John R. Smith, Stephen Michael Smith, John George Vergo
  • Publication number: 20080189644
    Abstract: A method and system for enterprise monitoring maps monitor events to elements of a component business model of the enterprise and displays the mapped events using the component business model. Rules are used to determine whether events captured from a monitor source are monitor events. An enterprise monitor metamodel linking monitor artifacts and elements of a component business model is used to annotate monitor events with data from the component business model of the enterprise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Hung-yang Chang, David Bernard Flaxer, Vijay Sourirajan Iyengar, Jun-Jang Jeng, Anil Nigam, Guy Jonathan James Rackham, John George Vergo
  • Publication number: 20080183529
    Abstract: A method of combining businesses by creating a target component map based on the business strategy of the resulting company, and using that target map to generate a component map for each constituent company in the combination. The constituent component map describes the current state of each component instantiated in the constituent company. Where there is no overlap between constituent companies with respect to components in the target map, those component instantiations are carried over to the resulting company. Where there is overlap, a comparative analysis is done and a ‘best fit’ component is recommended for inclusion in the resulting company. A transformation plan is developed to build the resulting company from those component instances selected for inclusion, in accordance with the target component map. Where the business strategy for building the resulting company includes a divestiture, the transformation plan provides alignment of the components to be divested in order to optimize the divestiture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Saul J. Berman, David Robert Kress, Jeffrey A. Neville, George Edmund Pohle, Guy Jonathan James Rackham, Stephen Michael Smith, Laurie A. Tropiano, Stephen Wood
  • Publication number: 20080172273
    Abstract: A system and method for representing a business with a component map of a target state of the business, arraying the components by competency and by management level, where each component is a group of cohesive business activities within a competency, and each competency is a non-overlapping partition of the activities of the business. An enterprise component map is also built, representing all businesses and serving as a basis for industry component maps and business component maps. The enterprise component map is partitioned into non-overlapping managing concepts, where each competency is formed of one or more managing concepts. Overlays of the current state of the business upon the component map are used to determine differences between the component map and the current state of the business, and these differences are prioritized for alignment of the business to high priority components of the component map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventor: Guy Jonathan James Rackham
  • Publication number: 20020091004
    Abstract: The present invention is a process of staging a live or pre-recorded performance that follows a schedule, optionally before a mass audience. The performance involves electronic and/or mechanical media that is computer controlled, preferably so as to create a virtual reality of one or more events. In the course of the performance, when an action that is not normal to the schedule occurs, the timing, speed, or sequence of one or more electronic and/or mechanical media activities are adjusted, whereby to compensate for the action so that the action does not adversely affect the continuity and totality of the performance to the audience. The present invention also encompasses an apparatus that comprises a sensory stimuli device(s), a mass audience area substantially within a space for reception of the sensory stimuli device(s), and computer hardware and software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventor: Guy Jonathan James Rackham
  • Patent number: 6386985
    Abstract: The present invention is a process of staging a live or pre-recorded performance that follows a schedule, optionally before a mass audience. The performance involves electronic and/or mechanical media that is computer controlled, preferably so as to create a virtual reality of one or more events. In the course of the performance, when an action that is not normal to the schedule occurs, the timing, speed, or sequence of one or more electronic and/or mechanical media activities are adjusted, whereby to compensate for the action so that the action does not adversely affect the continuity and totality of the performance to the audience. The present invention also encompasses an apparatus that comprises a sensory stimuli device(s), a mass audience area substantially within a space for reception of the sensory stimuli device(s), and computer hardware and software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Inventor: Guy Jonathan James Rackham