Overview

Compiling and protecting intellectual property creates a valuable asset for your company. Your patent portfolio speaks to your vision, imagination and technical prowess. It gives partners and investors a window into your thought process at various times in the growth of your company, most notably at its early inception and formation years. We have experience preparing and shepherding patents through the process from Provisional Patent through approval. Below are some examples of patents we've written through the years.

CROSS-PROGRAM DEPENDENCY SCHEDULING

A scheduling application that provides decision support for program managers by interrelating activities across multiple product-development programs and by creating dependencies for such activities. The application is platform independent and uses Internet technologies to manage multiple dependent programs. The application manages dependent programs by graphically displaying an activity schedule, displaying real time status of activities, and displaying available resources. Changes to an activity in one dependent program will reschedule activities in other programs. Alternatively, a change to an activity in one dependent program sends an electronic notification to parties of programs affected by the change for ratification of the change.

WEB-ENABLED DELIVERABLE-GATE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT WITH SCORING METHOD FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES SOFTWARE

The Deliverable is a schedule entity, related to program management of new product development that also links a user to the intellectual property being developed in the course of a scheduled product development effort. The Deliverable has a due date, owner, and parent project. The Gate object signifies the end of a major Phase or sub-Phase of the Program and has links to all required Deliverables in a checklist-type display that includes the status of each required Deliverable. In many industries, such as aerospace, scoring is applied as an ongoing metric for Deliverables, which yields an overall score at each Gate to measure improvement in the creation of Deliverables as standard processes are reused.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OF SUPPLIER DELIVERABLES USING WEB-ENABLED SOFTWARE

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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING STUDENT INFORMATION AMONG STUDENT, PARENTS GUARDIANS AND EDUCATORS

A system and method is provided for communicating student information among students, guardians, parents, administrators and educators with interface areas for each of them, the system configured to perform the method of maintaining assignments for students; grading responses to assignments provided by students; analyzing grades for each student; and notifying one of educators, a student and at least one of the student's parents and guardians if the student's grade triggers an event. If an event is triggered, such low grades, high grades, truancy or other student issues, then conferences can be scheduled or other activities.

ADVERTISING SUBSYSTEM FOR THE EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE MARKET

A system and method are provided for delivering advertising to school administrators, teachers, parents, and students that includes module configured for managing advertisements on a website; reviewing advertising for appropriate content; marketing website space to advertisers; receiving submitted advertisements for publication; accepting advertisements according to predetermined educational based criteria; and storing demographical data for all users of the application.

PRODUCT OR PLAYER RANKING USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS IN SOFTWARE

A system and method for soliciting user inputs on relative weighted desirability of alternatives in a list. For example, the alternatives may be television sets with underlying product data differences that different users might place different importance on in making a purchase decision. The analytical hierarchy groups similar product characteristics into common nodes for weighting purposes. Likewise, a team general manger, real or fantasy, may place different importance on statistical achievements of players that can be selected in a draft.

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