ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,732, issued on May 13, was assigned to SciQuest Inc. (Cary, N.C.).
"User-specific rule-based database querying" was invented by Charles A. Ballaro (Apex, N.C.) and Alexey Lef (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method operating at a server system is disclosed. The method includes associating business rules with a plurality of users, displaying a catalog item to a respective user of the plurality of users in accordance with the respective business rules associated with that user, and generating a purchase order for the displayed catalog item. Related methods and systems are also disc...