Patents by Inventor John Mark Langford

John Mark Langford 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: 8775389
    Abstract: A method of providing True Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) of business processes for audit purposes is provided herein. The method includes the following steps: consolidating data from multiple sources, in case the transactional data is located in more than one source, to a single self contained and comprehensive source; identifying, in the single data source, data elements that are required for detection and reporting for each audit rule; translating and streaming, in case required, the transactions data into events, so that every change in a transaction is immediately reflected and identifiable; eliminating duplicate events for the same single transaction; applying the event processing engine to the events, based on event audit patterns derived from audit rules, possibly entered by non-programmers; and generating alert data in audit-style notation, to be reported back to the system, based on alert notifications derived from the event processing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarit Arcushin, Dale Arthur Bell, Millicent Kay Ceron-Hayes, John Mark Langford, Yonit Magid, Guy Sharon, Tal Yatzkar-Haham
  • Publication number: 20120226670
    Abstract: A method of providing True Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) of business processes for audit purposes is provided herein. The method includes the following steps: consolidating data from multiple sources, in case the transactional data is located in more than one source, to a single self contained and comprehensive source; identifying, in the single data source, data elements that are required for detection and reporting for each audit rule; translating and streaming, in case required, the transactions data into events, so that every change in a transaction is immediately reflected and identifiable; eliminating duplicate events for the same single transaction; applying the event processing engine to the events, based on event audit patterns derived from audit rules, possibly entered by non-programmers; and generating alert data in audit-style notation, to be reported back to the system, based on alert notifications derived from the event processing engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarit Arcushin, Dale Arthur Bell, Millicent Kay Ceron-Hayes, John Mark Langford, Yonit Magid, Guy Sharon, Tal Yatzkar-Haham