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US 10,482,557 B2Granted
Annuity interface and system in an intellectual property database
AssigneeFoundationIP, LLC
InventorsAndrew Bergstrom, Nigel Gay
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Abstract
A method and system for integrating management of intellectual property assets with management of annuity instructions for patent grants and pending patent applications. An intellectual property asset management application is integrated with an asset management application through a third application. Communication conduits are configured in communication with the applications in the form of queues and schedulers to facilitate communicating instructions among the applications. Web services are employed as a communication medium to send instructions among the applications.
Claims19
A computer system comprising:
- a first server comprising a first processor in communication with a first data storage medium that stores intellectual property asset data;
- a first application that serves as an interface for said first data storage medium and is in communication with the first processor, wherein the first application is directed to docket intellectual property assets;
- a second server comprising a second processor in communication with a second data storage medium that stores annuity data;
- a second application that serves as an interface for said second data storage medium and is in communication with the second processor, wherein the second application is directed to manage the annuity data for the intellectual property assets, the second server being separate from the first server;
- a third application local to the first server and in communication with the first application via a local communication protocol and in communication with the second application via a web service, wherein the third application automatically communicates annuity related instructions and extract requests for retrieving annuity information received from the first application to the second application and the corresponding annuity related information received from the second application to the first application to enable sharing of the annuity data with the first application;
- an extraction queue that is local to the first server and accessible by the first and the third application to enable sharing of the annuity data with the first application, wherein the first application stores each of the extract requests in the extraction queue before it is communicated to the second application;
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- a scheduler that is stored in-memory with and in communication with the third application to enable sharing of the annuity data with the first application, wherein the scheduler automatically and periodically sends a message to the third application after expiration of a first time interval that causes the third application to pull the extract requests currently stored in the extraction queue and communicate the pulled extract requests to the second application, and
- wherein the scheduler automatically and periodically prompts the third application after the expiration of a second time interval to cause the third application to initiate a call to the second application requesting an acknowledgment file that indicates receipt of at least one of the pulled extract requests;
- wherein the second server is unable to share the annuity data with the first server absent the third application, the extraction queue, and the scheduler.
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A method comprising:
- interfacing, by a processor, a first data storage medium used to store intellectual property asset data with a first application, wherein the first application is directed to docket intellectual property assets;
- interfacing, by the processor, a second data storage medium used to store annuity data with a second application, wherein the second application is directed to manage the annuity data for the intellectual property assets, the second application being separate from the first application;
- using a third application, by the processor, to communicate annuity related instructions and extract requests for retrieving annuity information received from the first application to the second application and the corresponding annuity related information received from the second application to the first application, wherein the third application is in communication with the first application via a local communication protocol and in communication with the second application via a web service to enable sharing of the annuity data with the first application;
- storing, by the processor, each of the annuity related instructions in an instruction queue before it is communicated to the second application, wherein the instruction queue is accessible by the first application and the third application to enable sharing of the annuity data with the first application;
- using a scheduler that is stored in-memory with and in communication with the third application to enable sharing of the annuity data with the first application, by the processor, to automatically and periodically prompt the third application after expiration of a first time interval to cause the third application to retrieve the annuity related instructions currently stored in the instruction queue and communicate the retrieved annuity related instructions to the second application;
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- using the scheduler, by the processor, to automatically and periodically send a communication to the third application after expiration of a second time interval to cause the third application to poll the second application to obtain new data relating to at least one of the retrieved annuity related instructions;
- wherein the second application is unable to share the annuity data with the first application absent the third application, the extract requests, and the scheduler.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.