Patents by Inventor William James Porter

William James Porter 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).

  • Publication number: 20180157647
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and/or devices for processing translations are described. In some embodiments, the method may comprise receiving a request to display a message to a user and determining a language in which to display the message, where the language has multiple translations for the message based on a condition associated with the user. In some embodiments, it comprises determining a value for the condition, selecting a translation from the multiple translations based, at least in part, on the value, and displaying the selected translation to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Niharika Marwah, Russell William James Porter, Maria Pruzan
  • Patent number: 7805330
    Abstract: A system for cross-selling products and/or services across an enterprise comprising an enterprise-level decision engine and a plurality of line-of-business decision engines; wherein characteristics derived by the enterprise-level decision engine are used by the line-of business-level decision engines to generate cross-sell offer decisions; enterprise-level business rules and line-of-business-level business rules are managed independently of one another; a publish-subscribe message framework allows data to be published at an enterprise level and subscribed to by the line-of-business decision engines according to business rules established at the line-of-business level; the line-of-business decision engines generate cross-sell offer decisions; and the enterprise-level decision engine stores data to and retrieves data from an operational and an analytics data repository. A method of using the system described above to generate cross-sell offer decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Zoot Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Johnson, Warren White Bauder, Gretchen Andes Bauder, LeRoy Ira Verwolf, Mark Steven Douma, Robert M. Calhoun, Jr., Scott Michael Bridges, William James Porter, Nanette Marianne DeVault, Ryan Joseph DeGraw, Timothy H. Stevens, Bradley Louis Benjamin
  • Publication number: 20090076884
    Abstract: A system for cross-selling products and/or services across an enterprise comprising an enterprise-level decision engine and a plurality of line-of-business decision engines; wherein characteristics derived by the enterprise-level decision engine are used by the line-of business-level decision engines to generate cross-sell offer decisions; enterprise-level business rules and line-of-business-level business rules are managed independently of one another; a publish-subscribe message framework allows data to be published at an enterprise level and subscribed to by the line-of-business decision engines according to business rules established at the line-of-business level; the line-of-business decision engines generate cross-sell offer decisions; and the enterprise-level decision engine stores data to and retrieves data from an operational and an analytics data repository. A method of using the system described above to generate cross-sell offer decisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas H. Johnson, Warren White Bauder, Gretchen Andes Bauder, LeRoy Ira Verwolf, Mark Steven Douma, Robert M. Calhoun, JR., Scott Michael Bridges, William James Porter, Nanette Marianne DeVault, Ryan Joseph DeGraw, Timothy H. Stevens, Bradley Louis Benjamin