Patents by Inventor Marty Smith

Marty Smith 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: 8566117
    Abstract: Systems and methods may facilitate healthcare provider enrollment with one or more payers. The systems and methods may include receiving identification of a plurality of payers; determining required enrollment information needed for the healthcare provider to enroll for one or more services of the plurality of payers; retrieving or receiving available enrollment information associated with the healthcare provider; determining missing enrollment information based upon a comparison of the required enrollment information and the available enrollment information; and delivering, by the service provider to the healthcare provider computer, a request for the missing enrollment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventors: Paul Troutt, Nikhil Sarathi, Marty Smith
  • Patent number: 8522241
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for auto-balancing of throughput in a real-time event-driven system. The systems and methods may include identifying a plurality of processing stages for a real-time event-driven system that receives a system-level event and provides a system-level output, wherein processing stages between a first processing stage and a last processing stage are arranged in a sequential order such that a respective output of an earlier processing stage is provided to a respective request queue of a later processing stage; determining a respective number of requests in each request queue of the plurality of processing stages; comparing the respective determined number of requests to at least one threshold to determine that at least one processing stage is over-utilized, and for the at least one processing stage that is determined to be over-utilized, increasing an allocation of hardware resources to the respective over-utilized processing stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Anuj Vohra, Nikhil Sarathi, Marty Smith
  • Patent number: 8327020
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for transaction routing with destination-based throttling. The systems and methods may include receiving a healthcare transaction request from a source computer, where the healthcare transaction request includes at least a destination identifier that identifies a destination of the healthcare transaction request; identifying, based at least in part on the destination identifier, a current transaction count, the current transaction count indicating an extent to which one or more prior healthcare transaction requests remain unprocessed by the destination; comparing the identified current transaction count to at least one threshold value; and determining, based at least in part on the comparison, whether to deliver the healthcare transaction request to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Nikhil Sarathi, Marty Smith
  • Patent number: 7916853
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing calendar based routing of communications. Methods include receiving a communication from a sending party to a receiving party, the communication including a communication type. A current calendar entry type for the receiving party is retrieved in response to receiving the communication. A destination for the communication is determined. The destination is responsive to the communication type and to the current calendar entry type. The communication is transmitted to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, I, L.P.
    Inventors: William Daniell, Marty Smith
  • Publication number: 20100324940
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products process medical images. A notification is received that indicates a processed medical image is available and that indicates unprocessed medical images in a queue that have yet to be processed for display. The processed medical image is requested, received, and stored. The processed medical image and the notification are displayed. The processed medical image is visually distinguished in the notification from the unprocessed medical images in the queue that are yet to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Brett D. Johnson, Laurence Siegel, Marty Smith, Adrian Popescu, Charles Frederick Hart, Larry Kent, JR.
  • Patent number: 7809816
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to the present invention address this need and others by providing images to a remote user through the use of instant messaging techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Brett D. Johnson, Laurence Siegel, Marty Smith, Adrian Popescu, Charles Frederick Hart, Larry Kent, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7500797
    Abstract: The present invention provides a floating print head assembly and an associated method. According to one embodiment, the floating print head assembly includes a head bracket and a print head attached to the bracket such that the print head is suspended above the printing substrate. The assembly also includes an alignment mechanism disposed within the head bracket, where the alignment mechanism is operable to pivot such that the print head is capable of pivoting to apply substantially uniform print pressure across a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: ZIH Corp.
    Inventors: Olivier Boisdon, Joël Pelletier, Lionel Chavarria, Babak Honaryar, Marty Smith
  • Publication number: 20080071895
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to the present invention address this need and others by providing images to a remote user through the use of instant messaging techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
    Inventors: Brett D. Johnson, Laurence Siegel, Marty Smith, Adrian Popescu, Charles Frederick Hart, Larry Kent
  • Publication number: 20070140458
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing calendar based routing of communications. Methods include receiving a communication from a sending party to a receiving party, the communication including a communication type. A current calendar entry type for the receiving party is retrieved in response to receiving the communication. A destination for the communication is determined. The destination is responsive to the communication type and to the current calendar entry type. The communication is transmitted to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: William Daniell, Marty Smith
  • Publication number: 20060056896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a floating print head assembly and an associated method. According to one embodiment, the floating print head assembly includes a head bracket and a print head attached to the bracket such that the print head is suspended above the printing substrate. The assembly also includes an alignment mechanism disposed within the head bracket, where the alignment mechanism is operable to pivot such that the print head is capable of pivoting to apply substantially uniform print pressure across a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Olivier Boisdon, Joel Pelletier, Lionel Chavarria, Babak Honaryar, Marty Smith