SPS Launches Web-Based File Ordering Application
For 5,000+ Users At U.S. Patent And Trademark Office
Arlington, VA, February 2, 2000 – Software Performance Systems, Inc. (SPS) announced today the deployment of a web-based file ordering application for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Patent Application Location and Monitoring (PALM) Migration File Ordering System (FOS) enables USPTO employees and members of the public to request copies of patent and trademark application case files that are stored in warehouses called USPTO File Repositories. The FOS system supports approximately 5,000 USPTO users, including patent examiners who need to access files during the examination process and File Repository staff members who are responsible for order fulfillment. FOS has averaged approximately 12,000 user transactions each day.
SPS migrated the FOS application from a Unisys A16 mainframe to an open-system, web-based client-server architecture. “Because the majority of the users access FOS via the Intranet, the USPTO will realize significant benefits from not having to deploy and maintain configuration of thousands of desktop client applications,” said Joanie Barr, Vice President of SPS’s Software Solutions Division. The USPTO identified the need to track a file to the exact aisle, rack, and shelf within the File Repository, and SPS implemented this significant process improvement. The entire system was developed and deployed in less than one year, including hardware and software development and installation of identification tracking mechanisms, with bar code labels, throughout the File Repository.
FOS has a three-tier technical architecture consisting of Netscape 4.06 browsers on the user-interface tier utilizing client-side JavaScript, JAVA applets, and Crystal Report’s Web Report Server. The database-server tier consists of transactional server executables designed, developed, and generated using Sterling Software’s COOL:Gen, which access an Oracle 8 database on an HP UNIX machine. The mid- or Web-server tier is made up of a Microsoft Information Server 4.0 (IIS) running VB Scripts, MTS packages, Visual Basic 6.0 components, Crystal Report’s Automation Server, and COOL:Gen-generated COM:Proxies hosted on a Windows NT server machine.
SPS developed the FOS database-services tier using the Component-Based Development (CBD) methodology. USPTO is expected to realize significant savings because of component reuse in the FOS as well as several other large-scale systems being developed at USPTO. FOS implements three highly reusable infrastructure components offering functionality that nearly all software applications have to provide including basic error handling, application security, and generic code/reference look-up tables.
About SPS
Software Performance Systems, Inc. (SPS), a small business based in Maryland, is
a privately held information technology services provider.
Established in 1995, SPS specializes in the design and integration of large
Web-based solutions for State and Local Governments and commercial
clients. SPS has been honored with many national awards, including:
#10 ranking in the Computerworld Top 100 Best Places to Work in IT, Deloitte's
Virginia Technology Fast 50 and North America Technology Fast 500, and as a SBA
Exporter of the Year. More importantly, SPS solutions helped our clients win
prestigious awards, including the Grace Hopper Federal Government Technology
Leadership Award, the E-Gov Pioneer Award, the Excellence.gov Grand Prize
Award, and the Government IT Agency Award for Excellence in Government.
SPS...proven over time.
Contact Information
Software Performance Systems, Inc.
Business Development Team
1-866-734-6777
sps@goSPS.com
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