My Patent Finally Published

This past month my patent was published by the United State Patent and Trademark Office. The provisional patent was filed back in November 2003, and now the non-provisional has made its way into the archives at the USPTO. Soon the decision of the reviewer will be communicated to me, as I remain cautiously optimistic a patent will be issued.

The patent I filed with the USPTO involves the way in which my software, called GeoQuote, prices and displays t1 line prices in real-time. The calculations are very complicated, and the system we built can use four simultaneous ways to figure out the price values. While one thread is going via XML to hunt down prices for MegaPath, XO, Qwest, and others, our database calculates the prices of the other carriers. Finally, when all of the treads have finished calculating, our system them organizes all of the information and displays it to the customer and/or agent.

This is the first patent I've ever applied for, though it is not the first time I have been published. My first publication was a paper I wrote while in graduate school at BYU. The paper was about a new digital-to-analog converter architecture that I created to yield better accuracy while conserving silicon chip space.

This is an exciting time right now at ShopforT1.com. Most of our web projects for the year are now done and we have just hired a new programmer to help us maintain the thousands of pages of code we've just built. I am humbled by the loyalty so many agents have placed in our company and I work every day to make myself equal to the job.