Patents by Inventor Rob Blake

Rob Blake 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: 8280856
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping extension taxonomy elements to a standard base taxonomy and thereafter making use thereof are provided. According to one embodiment, a list of base taxonomy elements is displayed on a display device. A taxonomy map is also displayed on the display device. The taxonomy map includes information regarding one or more extended taxonomy elements of a reporting entity that are not mapped to any base taxonomy elements. Responsive to one or more user input events corresponding to a selection of a base taxonomy element and corresponding to a request to map an extended taxonomy element to the selected base taxonomy element, the compatibility of the selected base taxonomy element with the extended taxonomy element is validated. If the compatibility is affirmed, then an association is formed between the extended taxonomy element and the selected base taxonomy element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Rivet Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Rohan, Emily Huang, Rob Blake
  • Patent number: 8230329
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-level advanced caching engine that is designed for processing a high-volume of transaction data and ensuring high performance query processing is provided. A folio is interactively updated on-demand for an organizational hierarchy with aggregated information from pre-summarized balances. Responsive to user-generated folio-level queries which depend upon balance values not currently stored within the financial transaction system, multiple instances of balances are dynamically created and populated with new balance values based on the user-generated folio-level query. Responsive to new transaction data, clean balance values are maintained within the dependent balances by regenerating the associated balance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Rivet Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Rohan, Rob Blake, Emily Huang
  • Publication number: 20110231373
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping extension taxonomy elements to a standard base taxonomy and thereafter making use thereof are provided. According to one embodiment, a list of base taxonomy elements is displayed on a display device. A taxonomy map is also displayed on the display device. The taxonomy map includes information regarding one or more extended taxonomy elements of a reporting entity that are not mapped to any base taxonomy elements. Responsive to one or more user input events corresponding to a selection of a base taxonomy element and corresponding to a request to map an extended taxonomy element to the selected base taxonomy element, the compatibility of the selected base taxonomy element with the extended taxonomy element is validated. If the compatibility is affirmed, then an association is formed between the extended taxonomy element and the selected base taxonomy element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: RIVET SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael L. Rohan, Rob Blake, Emily Huang
  • Patent number: 7822769
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analysis of financial and business information based on interactive data, such as XBRL data. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for mapping extended taxonomy elements to base taxonomy elements. A list of base taxonomy elements is displayed on a display device. A taxonomy map is displayed on the display device. The taxonomy map includes information regarding one or more extended taxonomy elements of a reporting entity that are not mapped to any base taxonomy elements. Responsive to one or more user input events corresponding to a selection of a base taxonomy element and corresponding to a request to map an extended taxonomy element to the selected base taxonomy element, the compatibility of the selected base taxonomy element with the extended taxonomy element is validated. If the compatibility is affirmed, then an association is formed between the extended taxonomy element and the selected base taxonomy element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Rivet Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Rohan, Rob Blake, Emily Huang
  • Publication number: 20080059482
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for analysis of financial and business information based on interactive data, such as XBRL data. According to one embodiment, an intelligent financial and business information reporting application includes methods to allow the results of many companies to be more efficiently compared by regulators, investors, and other consumers of XBRL data. Embodiments of the present invention also provide more sophisticated reporting by “deriving” facts for elements (concepts) for which there are no direct facts, but for which there is information in the calculation linkbase to allow “calculated facts” to be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Rohan, Rob Blake, Emily Huang
  • Publication number: 20070239476
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enterprise-level analysis and reporting of transaction information. According to one embodiment, a method is provided by way of an enterprise-level analysis and reporting software application to enable a non-technical user on a Personal Computer (or other Network Appliance) to drag and drop metadata elements (e.g., XBRL elements/objects or generic data keys) onto a productivity tool, such as a spreadsheet (e.g., Microsoft Excel), and interactively update the spreadsheet with aggregated information from originating transactions. According to one embodiment of the present invention, transactions are dynamically accumulated into time-sensitive balances (or buckets) and then aggregated into cube(s) before the spreadsheet is refreshed. The user can then drill back through aggregated information to original transaction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: RIVET SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael L. Rohan, Rob Blake, Emily Huang
  • Patent number: 5540424
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for sewing the crotch portion of a pair of aligned blanks of limp fabric and stacking the sewn blanks which comprises robots (10 and 20) located one on each side of an operator. Each of the robots (10 and 20) is capable of gripping and removing a limp fabric blank from an associated stack of blanks and transporting the blanks to an operator. The robots (10 and 20) have arms (26) capable of axial movement and movement in a vertical plane and additionally capable of rotating about their axes through an angle of 180.degree.. At least one of the robots (10,20) is capable of rotation about a vertical axis, effecting horizontal movement of the arm (26). The apparatus also comprises a sewing head (30) for sewing the crotch portion of the pair of aligned blanks, and a blank support/transfer carriage (41) adjacent the sewing head mounted for horizontal movement in a direction substantially parallel with the direction of sewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Pacific Dunlop Limited
    Inventors: Craig Trigg, Ronald Anderson, Heinz Westermeir, Rob Blake
  • Patent number: 5456192
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for sewing the crotch portion of a pair of aligned blanks of limp fabric and stacking the sewn blanks which comprises robots (10 and 20) located one on each side of an operator. Each of the robots (10 and 20) is capable of gripping and removing a limp fabric blank from an associated stack of blanks and transporting the blanks to an operator. The robots (10 and 20) have arms (26) capable of axial movement and movement in a vertical plane and additionally capable of rotating about their axes through an angle of 180.degree.. At least one of the robots (10, 20) is capable of rotation about a vertical axis, effecting horizontal movement of the arm (26). The apparatus also comprises a sewing head (30) for sewing the crotch portion of the pair of aligned blanks, and a blank support/transfer carriage (41) adjacent the sewing head mounted for horizontal movement in a direction substantially parallel with the direction of sewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Pacific Dunlop Limited
    Inventors: Craig Trigg, Ronald Anderson, Heinz Westermeir, Rob Blake