Patents by Inventor Scott Kelly Hayward

Scott Kelly Hayward 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 measuring the value of elements in an information repository
    Patent number: 8005867
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring the value of elements in an information repository includes, in one embodiment, various methods of measuring the value of elements in an information repository are provided. Knowing which elements in the repository are most used may define one measure of their value. This may serve a number of business purposes including, for example, establishing how to price those assets if they are sold; identifying which assets are candidates for further investment; assessing the performance of the information developers who created them; deciding which assets should be retired from the repository; and measuring the level of asset reuse in an organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Low Abraham, Christopher J. Davis, Scott Kelly Hayward
  • System and Method For Measuring the Value Of Elements In an Information Repository
    Publication number: 20080114788
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring the value of elements in an information repository includes, in one embodiment, various methods of measuring the value of elements in an information repository are provided. Knowing which elements in the repository are most used may define one measure of their value. This may serve a number of business purposes including, for example, establishing how to price those assets if they are sold; identifying which assets are candidates for further investment; assessing the performance of the information developers who created them; deciding which assets should be retired from the repository; and measuring the level of asset reuse in an organization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Low Abraham, Christopher J. Davis, Scott Kelly Hayward