System and method for obtaining feedback from delivery of informational and transactional data

US7415438B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• MicroStrategy Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Terry Berman · Clifton, US
• Ilia Baskine · Bethesda, US
• Hu Yu · Falls Church, US
• Vladislav Davidovich Lazebnikov · Rockville, US
• Michael J. Saylor · Vienna, US
• Sanjeev K. Bansal · Vienna, US
• Stephen Scott Trundle · Falls Church, US
• Jeffrey A. Bedell · Arlington, US
• Benjamin Z. Li · Great Falls, US
• Abhimanyu Warikoo · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 19, 2008
• Expiry date: Sep 9, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for a personal intelligence network provides informational and transactional data. Data distribution servers provide e-mail and other messages of topical interest to a subset of the subscribers. The content may be generated by an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) based channel database system, and the output may also be communicated to individuals via spreadsheet programs data, pager, telephone, mobile phone, fax, personal digital assistants, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) e-mail and other formats, including a workbook file attachment. Reports generated may enable a subscriber to act upon the content within the report, thereby providing an interactive component to the report. Subscriber actions or inaction to the report and content may be obtained and analyzed, including analysis in connection with the other informational and transactional data.