Patents by Inventor Robert E. Potter, II

Robert E. Potter, II 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).

  • Virtual product hierarchies
    Patent number: 9785910
    Abstract: A base hierarchy of products or the like can be user-modified into a virtual hierarchy that is represented as a collection of changes to the base hierarchy rather than a new hierarchy stored in memory. The collection of changes can be used to enable user interactions such as queries, displays, and writes using the virtual hierarchy as thought it were an actual hierarchy stored in memory, with aspects of the virtual hierarchy dynamically created using a collection of procedures based on the changes and corresponding inverses. The representation of the modified hierarchy can be dynamically displayed to a user or otherwise processed in the same manner as other hierarchies and hierarchical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Information Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Tilwani, Robert E. Potter, II, Sheila J. Noojibail
  • Virtual product hierarchies
    Patent number: 9767431
    Abstract: A base hierarchy of products or the like can be user-modified into a virtual hierarchy that is represented as a collection of changes to the base hierarchy rather than a new hierarchy stored in memory. The collection of changes can be used to enable user interactions such as queries, displays, and writes using the virtual hierarchy as thought it were an actual hierarchy stored in memory, with aspects of the virtual hierarchy dynamically created using a collection of procedures based on the changes and corresponding inverses. The representation of the modified hierarchy can be dynamically displayed to a user or otherwise processed in the same manner as other hierarchies and hierarchical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Information Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Tilwani, Robert E. Potter, II, Sheila J. Noojibail
  • VIRTUAL PRODUCT HIERARCHIES
    Publication number: 20150154534
    Abstract: A base hierarchy of products or the like can be user-modified into a virtual hierarchy that is represented as a collection of changes to the base hierarchy rather than a new hierarchy stored in memory. The collection of changes can be used to enable user interactions such as queries, displays, and writes using the virtual hierarchy as thought it were an actual hierarchy stored in memory, with aspects of the virtual hierarchy dynamically created using a collection of procedures based on the changes and corresponding inverses. The representation of the modified hierarchy can be dynamically displayed to a user or otherwise processed in the same manner as other hierarchies and hierarchical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: INFORMATION RESOURCES, INC.
    Inventors: Prakash Tilwani, Robert E. Potter, II, Sheila J. Noojibail
  • VIRTUAL PRODUCT HIERARCHIES
    Publication number: 20150154312
    Abstract: A base hierarchy of products or the like can be user-modified into a virtual hierarchy that is represented as a collection of changes to the base hierarchy rather than a new hierarchy stored in memory. The collection of changes can be used to enable user interactions such as queries, displays, and writes using the virtual hierarchy as thought it were an actual hierarchy stored in memory, with aspects of the virtual hierarchy dynamically created using a collection of procedures based on the changes and corresponding inverses. The representation of the modified hierarchy can be dynamically displayed to a user or otherwise processed in the same manner as other hierarchies and hierarchical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Information Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Tilwani, Robert E. Potter, II, Sheila J. Noojibail