Patents by Inventor Tom David Anthony

Tom David Anthony 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).

  • RULES DRIVEN FILTERING OF SERVICE REQUESTS FOR SHARED PROCUREMENT SERVICES
    Publication number: 20100299174
    Abstract: Techniques for supporting shared procurement services in an enterprise application. According to one set of embodiments, associations between procurement service providers and procurement clients are stored, where the associations represent outsourcing relationships between these entities in the operational structure of an enterprise. The associations are then used by the application to facilitate the management of procurement-related content and the processing of procurement transactions. In one embodiment, the associations enable procurement-related content to be created/managed centrally by a procurement service provider and then made accessible to procurement clients serviced by the procurement service provider. In another embodiment, a rules-driven mechanism is provided for routing procurement requisitions from procurement clients to associated procurement service providers for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Suman Guha, Margaret Lloyd, Seth Stafford, Lee-Hian Quek, Tom David Anthony, David Scott Merrill, Nigel King, Kim Elizabeth Powell
  • FRAMEWORK FOR SHARED PROCUREMENT SERVICES
    Publication number: 20100299268
    Abstract: Techniques for supporting shared procurement services in an enterprise application. According to one set of embodiments, associations between procurement service providers and procurement clients are stored, where the associations represent outsourcing relationships between these entities in the operational structure of an enterprise. The associations are then used by the application to facilitate the management of procurement-related content and the processing of procurement transactions. In one embodiment, the associations enable procurement-related content to be created/managed centrally by a procurement service provider and then made accessible to procurement clients serviced by the procurement service provider. In another embodiment, a rules-driven mechanism is provided for routing procurement requisitions from procurement clients to associated procurement service providers for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Suman Guha, Margaret Lloyd, Seth Stafford, Lee-Hian Quek, Tom David Anthony, David Scott Merrill, Nigel King, Kim Elizabeth Powell