Patents by Inventor Robert P. Kinross

Robert P. Kinross 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).

  • Electronic sourcing system
    Patent number: 6505172
    Abstract: An electronic sourcing system includes a computer that maintains a catalog database of data including product information (such as product identification and descriptive information) relating to catalog items available from vendor product catalogs, and a means for building (generating) a requisition including at least one requisitioned item. Information at least partially identifying an item desired to be requisitioned is entered by a user, and utilized by a means for searching the database for catalog items matching that information and for selecting at least one catalog item located as a result of the search. Text describing the catalog items, and images of the items, may be viewed. Data identifying selected catalog items are communicated to the requisition building means, which generates a requisition including entries for items corresponding to the selected catalog items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: ePlus Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Johnson, Robert P. Kinross, Francis J. Melly, Douglas A. Momyer
  • Electronic sourcing system
    Patent number: 6055516
    Abstract: An electronic sourcing system includes a computer that maintains a catalog database of data including product information (such as product identification and descriptive information) relating to catalog items available from vendor product catalogs, and a means for building (generating) a requisition including at least one requisitioned item. Information at least partially identifying an item desired to be requisitioned is entered by a user, and utilized by a means for searching the database for catalog items matching that information and for selecting at least one catalog item located as a result of the search. Text describing the catalog items, and images of the items, may be viewed. Data identifying selected catalog items are communicated to the requisition building means, which generates a requisition including entries for items corresponding to the selected catalog items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Procurenet, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Johnson, Robert P. Kinross, Francis J. Melly, Douglas A. Momyer
  • Electronic sourcing system and method
    Patent number: 6023683
    Abstract: An electronic sourcing system includes a computer that maintains a catalog database of data including product information (such as product identification and descriptive information) relating to catalog items available from vendor product catalogs, and a means for building (generating) a requisition including at least one requisitioned item. Information at least partially identifying an item desired to be requisitioned is entered by a user, and utilized by a means for searching the database for catalog items matching that information and for selecting at least one catalog item located as a result of the search. Text describing the catalog items, and images of the items, may be viewed. Data identifying selected catalog items are communicated to the requisition building means, which generates a requisition including entries for items corresponding to the selected catalog items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Fisher Scientific Company
    Inventors: James M. Johnson, Robert P. Kinross, Francis J. Melly, Douglas A. Momyer