Patents by Inventor Charles Virden

Charles Virden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Real-time delivery feasibility analysis systems and methods
    Patent number: 6701299
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling deliveries, in real time, to be made within one or more delivery time windows. For each requested delivery, the system dynamically determines whether to offer each time delivery window to the customer requesting the delivery based on whether: (1) it would be possible to complete, within the time window, both the requested delivery and all deliveries that were already scheduled to be made within the time window; and (2) it makes business sense to make the delivery within the particular time window. In determining whether it would make business sense to make the delivery within a particular time window, the system considers the cost of making the delivery, various attributes of the customer requesting the delivery, and the percentage of the delivery capacity associated with the delivery wave that has been reserved for previously scheduled deliveries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifton Brian Kraisser, Vincent Cucchiara, Stephen Patrick Simon, Ronald Shin-Yung Taur, Charles Virden
  • Real-time delivery feasibility analysis systems and methods
    Publication number: 20020147654
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling deliveries, in real time, to be made within one or more delivery time windows. For each requested delivery, the system dynamically determines whether to offer each time delivery window to the customer requesting the delivery based on whether: (1) it would be possible to complete, within the time window, both the requested delivery and all deliveries that were already scheduled to be made within the time window; and (2) it makes business sense to make the delivery within the particular time window. In determining whether it would make business sense to make the delivery within a particular time window, the system considers the cost of making the delivery, various attributes of the customer requesting the delivery, and the percentage of the delivery capacity associated with the delivery wave that has been reserved for previously scheduled deliveries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Clifton Brian Kraisser, Vincent Cucchiara, Stephen Patrick Simon, Ronald Shin-Yung Taur, Charles Virden