David W Heath, 673411 Johnson Ferry Rd, Roswell, GA 30075

2011007, Mar 24, 2011

Jan 6, 2010

12/652972

Frank E. Schnur - Hopkinton MA, US
Christa N. Ancri - Potomac MD, US
David R. Heath - Katy TX, US
John T. Macko - Alpharetta GA, US
Suzie E. Jennings - Houston TX, US
Lydia L. Walsh - New York NY, US
Pranav Gaur - Noida, IN

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. - New York NY

G06Q 10/00
G06Q 50/00
G06F 3/14

705 10, 705348, 705301, 715700

A system and method is disclosed for modeling, predicting, forecasting, and analyzing organizational spend/procurement, such as travel spend. In various embodiments, a method for modeling, predicting, budgeting, and optimizing business spend and procurement is provided comprising obtaining benchmark data, obtaining opportunity assessment data, obtaining organizational cost data, modeling the opportunity assessment data in comparison to the benchmark data, and determining a potential cost result based on the modeling. The method may further comprise adjusting the opportunity assessment data to achieve a desired cost result.

5553239, Sep 3, 1996

Nov 10, 1994

8/337943

David M. Heath - Nashua NH
Michael F. Kraley - Lexington MA
Sangam Pant - Winchester MA

AT&T Corporation - Basking Ridge NJ

G06F 1134

39518701

Disclosed is a server architecture for connecting to a plurality of remote client computers each seeking access to applications resident on the server. The architecture provides (1) a reliable, single point of entry for client users that enforces security and recovers immediately from failures; (2) connection management that monitors the user's level of online activity, terminating inactive connections both to save system resources and to limit unnecessary connection charges to the user; (3) application management that spreads users optimally among active application instances, maintaining a pool of available applications, initiating new instances when the pool is low, and which records a user's utilization of different applications for billing purposes; (4) system integrity, which is achieved through division of transaction-management responsibility among the various interrelated components of the invention; and (5) continuous, uninterrupted operation. The invention distributes tasks to different functional modules in a manner that promotes efficiency and ready accommodation of large numbers of users without processing delays.

5491820, Feb 13, 1996

Nov 10, 1994

8/337078

Edward Belove - Cambridge MA
James A. Culbert - Lynnfield MA
R. Patrick Johnson - Manchester MA
David M. Heath - Nashua NH
Michael F. Kraley - Lexington MA
Deborah Mendez - Malden MA
Sangam Pant - Winchester MA
Stephen Zagieboylo - Norfolk MA

AT&T Corporation - Basking Ridge NJ

G06F 1300

395600

Disclosed is an object-oriented approach to storage and transmission of retrievable items in a client-server computer environment. Special processing modules manage retrieval and permanent storage, on client computers, of requested objects in a manner that minimizes unnecessary transmission and storage. The user enters a "subscription" in connection with items related to hierarchically inferior items. The subscription specifies the amount of information the user desires to download and store locally with respect to a specified hierarchical depth level. The invention also includes a pruning module for deleting, from local storage, items inconsistent with the subscription and which the user does not explicitly indicate a desire to store, and a facility for updating locally stored items upon re-establishment of communication with the server.