Patents by Inventor Philip John Marson

Philip John Marson 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).

  • Apparatus and method for generating reports with masked confidential data
    Patent number: 8024339
    Abstract: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to receive a query, receive information about the identity of the query requester, send the query to at least one data source, receive data from the at least one data source, and apply confidentiality criteria to the data based on a set of rules to produce masked confidential data. The masked confidential data is returned in a report in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Barker, Philip John Marson