Patents by Inventor Patrick Karcher

Patrick Karcher 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).

  • Publication number: 20070157093
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for offering a user of an application one or more help pages associated with a function of the application. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may comprise analyzing the user while the user is interacting with the application, determining when the user needs help completing the function based on the analysis, selecting a level of help from a user help table based on the determining, and showing the user one or more help pages associated with the level of help.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventor: Patrick Karcher
  • Publication number: 20070118446
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing a plurality of invoicing parties associated with a business partner in a procurement management system. The system may suggest an invoicing party as a default invoicing party in an invoice associated with the business partner. The suggested invoicing party may be selected from the plurality of invoicing parties associated with the business partner. The procurement management system may allow the user to replace the suggested default invoicing party in the invoice with another invoicing party from the plurality of invoicing parties associated with the business partner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Tanja Soehngen, Frank Milpetz, Patrick Karcher, Paola Sala
  • Publication number: 20060149643
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products consistent with the invention provide automatic determination of a date, such as the posting date, associated with a business document or business data that is entering into a data processing system, such as a financial, accounting, or ERP data processing system. For example, a system may automatically determine the posting date for an invoice entered by a user, without the user having to manually determine and type in the posting date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Reiner, Patrick Karcher