Patents by Inventor John Lawton Cowan

John Lawton Cowan 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: 8832657
    Abstract: Systems and methods for objective Deployment Failure risk assessments are provided, which may include fault trees. Systems and methods for the analysis of fault trees are provided as well. The risk assessments system may involve the development of a fault tree, assigning initial values and weights to the events within that fault tree, and the subsequent revision of those values and weights in an iterative fashion, including comparison to historical data. The systems for analysis may involve the assignment of well-ordered values to some events in a fault tree, and then the combination those values through the application of specialized, defined gates. The system may further involve the revision of specific gates by comparison to historical or empirical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: John Lawton Cowan, Rachel Nemecek
  • Patent number: 8326678
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for monitoring the daily performance, as measured by customer impact, of technology systems that interface between a company and its customers. To do so, for example, embodiments of the present invention record, on a daily basis, the number of failed interactions between the company's customers and its technology systems, and, based on the recorded number of failed interactions, embodiments of the present invention provide performance measurements of the company's technology systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David Matvey, John Lawton Cowan, Tracey Leigh Bentley, David Lee Harris