Patents by Inventor Rob Best

Rob Best 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).

  • System and method for cleansing enterprise data
    Patent number: 7865461
    Abstract: A method, system, and article of manufacture for cleansing an enterprise database extracts data from an enterprise database, extracts reference data from a most-trusted database, determines discords between the data extracted from the enterprise database and the reference data extracted from the most-trusted database in accordance with a set of business rules, modifies the data extracted from the enterprise database based on the discords, and stores the modified data in the enterprise database. The data may be modified automatically with or without manual intervention. Discords are preferably determined on an atomic level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Rob Best, Hossein Eslambolchi, John McCanuel, Prakash Vasa