Patents by Inventor Stuart Birse

Stuart Birse 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: 10504354
    Abstract: Providing security for a sensitive item is implemented using geo-fencing. A geo-fence may be established as a dynamic virtual perimeter defining the maximum allowable distance between a sensitive item for which security is provided, and a security providing entity. The sensitive item has a first trackable device associated with it and the security providing entity has a second trackable device associated with it. The first trackable device and the second trackable device are paired to each other and tracked. The dynamic virtual perimeter may encompass and move with the moving location of one of the trackable devices. A notification is provided when the first trackable device or the second trackable device is out of the virtual dynamic perimeter. The sensitive item may be a bank cash cassette and the security providing entity may be a person responsible for the bank cash cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Rafael Torcida Fernandez, Stuart Birse
  • Patent number: 10380096
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software for data migration, such as when migrating a database from one form to a next and as may be performed at a time of software system version migration. One example embodiment, in the form of a method, includes loading a database migration script that includes a prior class from a software system prior to an upgrade of the software system and a new class from the software system after the upgrade to the software system. The method proceeds by then calling methods of the prior class to copy database data from database tables impacted by the database migration script to a memory device and executing the database migration script. The method then calls methods of the new class to copy the database data from the memory device back to the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Gregor Leonard Stephen, Stuart Birse
  • Publication number: 20180150497
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software for data migration, such as when migrating a database from one form to a next and as may be performed at a time of software system version migration. One example embodiment, in the form of a method, includes loading a database migration script that includes a prior class from a software system prior to an upgrade of the software system and a new class from the software system after the upgrade to the software system. The method proceeds by then calling methods of the prior class to copy database data from database tables impacted by the database migration script to a memory device and executing the database migration script. The method then calls methods of the new class to copy the database data from the memory device back to the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Gregor Leonard Stephen, Stuart Birse
  • Publication number: 20170148287
    Abstract: Providing security for a sensitive item is implemented using geo-fencing. A geo-fence may be established as a dynamic virtual perimeter defining the maximum allowable distance between a sensitive item for which security is provided, and a security providing entity. The sensitive item has a first trackable device associated with it and the security providing entity has a second trackable device associated with it. The first trackable device and the second trackable device are paired to each other and tracked. The dynamic virtual perimeter may encompass and move with the moving location of one of the trackable devices. A notification is provided when the first trackable device or the second trackable device is out of the virtual dynamic perimeter. The sensitive item may be a bank cash cassette and the security providing entity may be a person responsible for the bank cash cassette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Rafael Torcida Fernandez, Stuart Birse
  • Patent number: 9646477
    Abstract: Providing security for a sensitive item is implemented using geo-fencing. A geo-fence may be established as a dynamic virtual perimeter defining the maximum allowable distance between a sensitive item for which security is provided, and a security providing entity. The sensitive item has a first trackable device associated with it and the security providing entity has a second trackable device associated with it. The first trackable device and the second trackable device are paired to each other and tracked. The dynamic virtual perimeter may encompass and move with the moving location of one of the trackable devices. A notification is provided when the first trackable device or the second trackable device is out of the virtual dynamic perimeter. The sensitive item may be a bank cash cassette and the security providing entity may be a person responsible for the bank cash cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Rafael Torcida Fernandez, Stuart Birse
  • Publication number: 20160078742
    Abstract: Providing security for a sensitive item is implemented using geo-fencing. A geo-fence may be established as a dynamic virtual perimeter defining the maximum allowable distance between a sensitive item for which security is provided, and a security providing entity. The sensitive item has a first trackable device associated with it and the security providing entity has a second trackable device associated with it. The first trackable device and the second trackable device are paired to each other and tracked. The dynamic virtual perimeter may encompass and move with the moving location of one of the trackable devices. A notification is provided when the first trackable device or the second trackable device is out of the virtual dynamic perimeter. The sensitive item may be a bank cash cassette and the security providing entity may be a person responsible for the bank cash cassette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Rafael Torcida Fernandez, Stuart Birse