Patents by Inventor James G. Francis

James G. Francis 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: 7996289
    Abstract: An object oriented trade finance system designed to support a large-scale transactional work flow on a global basis. The system supports all facets of the trade finance business including but not limited to letters of credit, collections, bankers acceptances and reimbursements. A trade finance system organized into a central and distributed location hardware architecture having a user interface of a user work station which communicates with an application server including business objects. The business objects communicate with a database to obtain the data needed for the business logic and include all the business logic needed for the system. Work flow distribution rules are used to distribute the work items to a work item list for work group that can be distributed geographically in different time zones and to allow processing to continue when the originally assigned workgroup has reached an end of its business day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Francis, Ronald W. Carden
  • Publication number: 20040177028
    Abstract: An object oriented trade finance system designed to support a large-scale transactional work flow on a global basis. The system is designed to support imbedded imaging technology for the scanning, storage and retrieval of all documents coming into and going out of the system. The system supports a flexible 3-tier architecture providing direct separation between the presentation layer, the business layer and the database layer. This flexibility allows for the distribution of processing across geographic boundaries while also providing the ability to perform high-volume transaction processing. The system supports all facets of the trade finance business including but not limited to letters of credit, collections, bankers acceptances and reimbursements. A trade finance system organized into a central and distributed location hardware architecture with a three tier software architecture having a user interface of a user work station which communicates with an application server including business objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: American Management Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Francis, Ronald W. Carden
  • Patent number: 6772131
    Abstract: An object oriented trade finance system designed to support a large-scale transactional work flow on a global basis. The system is designed to support imbedded imaging technology for the scanning, storage and retrieval of all documents coming into and going out of the system. The system allows for the distribution of processing across geographic boundaries while also providing the ability to perform high-volume transaction processing. The system supports all facets of the trade finance business. The trade finance system is organized into a central and distributed location hardware architecture with a three tier software architecture. Work flow distribution rules are used to distribute the work items to a work item list for work group that can be distributed geographically in different time zones. The rules also redistribute the work items as needed to allow processing to continue when the originally assigned workgroup has reached an end of its business day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: American Management Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Francis, Ronald W. Carden