Patents by Inventor Michael Allen Bush

Michael Allen Bush 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: 8417594
    Abstract: Tools and techniques are described for dimension-based financial reporting using multiple combinations of dimensions. These tools may provide methods that include receiving requests, submitted on behalf of users of dimension-based financial reporting systems. These methods may create reports from the financial reporting systems. In some cases, these requests from the users may reference incomplete account structures, and may also specify customized hierarchies for the reports. In such cases, the methods may determine that these requests reference incomplete account structures, and may transform the incomplete account structures to create fully-qualified requests. In addition, these methods may include identifying dimensions, as maintained by the financial reporting systems, that are responsive to the requests, and may combine these dimensions into responses to the requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey Richard Schlueter, Michael Ricke Evans, Michael Allen Bush, Amy Lynn Ford
  • Patent number: 8176003
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein generally relate to new and alternate systems and methods to associate XBRL tags with financial data. A business user creates a design template that can be used one or more times to create an instance of an XBRL document. A user can select a user interface element to have a system automatically map the XBRL taxonomy tags with portions of financial information. Upon selecting the user interface element, the system determines the best matches for the financial information and the XBRL taxonomy. The matches are recorded or stored in the design template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Allen Bush, Daniel Barnett, Jeffrey B. Cutting, Angela Selman
  • Publication number: 20090319403
    Abstract: Tools and techniques are described for dimension-based financial reporting using multiple combinations of dimensions. These tools may provide methods that include receiving requests, submitted on behalf of users of dimension-based financial reporting systems. These methods may create reports from the financial reporting systems. In some cases, these requests from the users may reference incomplete account structures, and may also specify customized hierarchies for the reports. In such cases, the methods may determine that these requests reference incomplete account structures, and may transform the incomplete account structures to create fully-qualified requests. In addition, these methods may include identifying dimensions, as maintained by the financial reporting systems, that are responsive to the requests, and may combine these dimensions into responses to the requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey Richard Schlueter, Michael Ricke Evans, Michael Allen Bush, Amy Lynn Ford
  • Publication number: 20090006472
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein generally relate to new and alternate systems and methods to associate XBRL tags with financial data. A business user creates a design template that can be used one or more times to create an instance of an XBRL document. A user can select a user interface element to have a system automatically map the XBRL taxonomy tags with portions of financial information. Upon selecting the user interface element, the system determines the best matches for the financial information and the XBRL taxonomy. The matches are recorded or stored in the design template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Allen Bush, Daniel Barnett, Jeffrey B. Cutting, Angela Selman