Patents by Inventor Paul A. Cantrell

Paul A. Cantrell 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: 20120078682
    Abstract: This is generally related to techniques for collecting and processing consumer document information. Consumers can transmit documents, such as receipts, to a host system. To transmit the documents, the documents can be scanned with a desktop scanner and transmitted via a web interface, forwarded via e-mail, photographed and transmitted via a mobile phone's e-mail or MMS capability, transmitted via a dedicated smart phone application, etc. Images of the document can be stored in a central archive, such that the consumer can access online images of their documents at any time and from any place. Submitted receipts can be interpreted by the host system to determine receipt information such as merchant, payment method, date, price, coupons, items purchased and/or returned, and the like. The interpreted information can be used to produce a wide range of reports that can be of value to the consumer, the host system, and/or merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: THE NPD GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: David B. Pinsley, Paul A. Cantrell, Kellen J. Frank
  • Patent number: 6446136
    Abstract: An event management system including an event manager, an alarm rule store, an event correlator, and a response engine. The event manager provides and receives events. The event correlator correlates at least one of the events provided by the event manager based on the alarm rules stored in the alarm rule store. The response engine executes a response policy based on the correlation of events by the event correlator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: William N. Pohlmann, Kenneth D. Matson, Paul Cantrell
  • Patent number: 6366926
    Abstract: A method for routing a subscription request defined by an event filter. The method includes parsing the event filter into an evaluation tree having at least one subexpression, locating the at least one subexpression and determining if the at least one subexpression includes a node specific field. If the at least one subexpression includes a node specific field, the method includes creating a list of nodes and event manager contact information and transmitting the subscription request to at least one event manager located on a node that is included on a list of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: William N. Pohlmann, Kenneth D. Matson, Paul Cantrell
  • Patent number: 5927785
    Abstract: A "universal" liner for protecting the cargo area of sport utility vehicles and the like comprises four liner members selectively assemblable and disassemblable with one another by mating ribs and channels formed in the floor sections and outwardly projecting lips formed in the side wall sections of the liner members to allow them to be overlappingly assembled with one another to varying degrees to adjust the assembled lengthwise and widthwise dimensions of the liner to fit within the cargo area of substantially any such vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Inventor: Paul A. Cantrell