Patents by Inventor Tom Potter

Tom Potter 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 Automating Insurance Quotation Processes
    Publication number: 20140142987
    Abstract: A system method for automating an insurance quotation are disclosed. The system and method may include receiving a first data set, the first data set related to an image of a first user data form, wherein the image has been subjected to a data integrity check prior to receipt, generating a second data set, the second data set related to the image of the first user data form, the second data set based at least on an OCR process applied to the first data set, and applying a plurality of business rules to the second data set in order to generate an insurance quotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan Misch, Tom Potter, Joe Young
  • Method and system for distributed processing of traffic in a telecommunications node
    Patent number: 6724728
    Abstract: A method and system for distributed processing of traffic in a telecommunications node includes receiving a traffic stream at a line card of the telecommunications node. The traffic stream includes a plurality of discrete cells. The cells are forwarded from the line card to a centralized switch of the telecommunications node. The centralized switch identifies cells that are of a particular type. Cells of the particular type are returned from the centralized switch to the line card. The returned cells are processed at the line card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Earl B. Manchester, Barry W. Field, Robert D. Howson, Jr., Soren B. Pedersen, Tom Potter