ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,185, issued on April 7, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Descendent case role alias" was invented by Satyapal P. Reddy (San Ramon, Calif.), Muthukumarappa Jayakumar (Mountain House, Calif.), Julian M. Hjortshoj (San Francisco) and Ravikumar Meenakshisundaram (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a definition is received that associates a descendant case role alias with a first case node at a first hierarchical level of a hierarchical data model, the definition further associating a permission with the descendant case role al...