Patents by Inventor Mark Alder

Mark Alder 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).

  • Method and apparatus for coordinating tasks among a plurality of users
    Patent number: 10798150
    Abstract: An approach is provided for efficiently coordinating one or more tasks among a plurality of users. A service provider may determine one or more contextual criteria for at least one task associated with at least one user. The service provider may further cause a selection of one or more contacts associated with the at least one user based on the one or more contextual criteria. Additionally, the service provider may cause a presentation of the at least one task to the one or more contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Sacha Zyto, Gopalakrishna Raghavan, Mark Alder, Mark Peterson
  • Business intelligence monitor method and system
    Patent number: 7349862
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a business intelligence monitor method and system. Business intelligence indicators are monitored by generating a monitoring repository through selecting functions from a collection of functions, for receiving the business intelligence indicators as inputs. The thresholds for the business intelligence indicators are then established to define the states for the business intelligence indicators. Each state of the business intelligence indicators is assigned an associated priority. The monitoring repository is updated by retrieving a current value for each of the business intelligence indicators from a data source, thereby determining the state for each of the business intelligence indicators based on the current value. A report based on the updated monitoring repository is then created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Cognos Incorporated
    Inventors: Simon James Palmer, Michael John Craig, Dean Pignon, Charles Bailey, Grant Miller, Stephen Pollard, Mark Alder
  • Business intelligence monitor method and system
    Publication number: 20030004742
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a business intelligence monitor method and system. The method, leveraging the functionality of an existing business information-reporting infrastructure, includes the step of authoring a monitor document derived from a determined methodology by creating one or more intelligence indicators, establishing thresholds for the one or more created intelligence indicators and selecting status definitions for the established thresholds. The method further includes the step of building a report guided by the authored monitor document by retrieving data from a data source for each of the one or more intelligence indicator, assigning statuses to each of the one or more intelligence indicators based on the retrieved data and generating a report incorporating one or more intelligence indicators, retrieved data and assigned statuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Simon James Palmer, Michael John Craig, Dean Pignon, Charles Bailey, Grant Miler, Stephen Pollard, Mark Alder