Patents by Inventor Thomas Edward Guardino

Thomas Edward Guardino 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).

  • Configurable pricing optimization system
    Patent number: 7287000
    Abstract: The present invention provides a configurable pricing system that allows users to define or modify data used to analyze, evaluate, improve, and design pricing changes according to the user's need. A Graphical user interface or some other type of user interface allows the user to access and review various data to be used during pricing optimization. The user may then modify this data as needed to improve the pricing evaluation, such as defining sales or pricing trends, or relationships between the product of interest and other competing items. The user interface may further display changes in pricing and the effects of the pricing changes, as caused by the user's changes. The interface may also allow the user to modify the mathematical model to be used during price optimization, as well as define variables, constraints, and boundaries to be considered during the price optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: JDA Software Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Weldon Boyd, Prashandt Narayan Balepur, Henry Frederick Schwarz, Philip David Reginald Apps, Ravishankar Venkata Nandiwada, Brian Lawrence Monteiro, Thomas Edward Guardino, Mark Cooke
  • Promotion pricing system and method
    Patent number: 7072848
    Abstract: A promotion pricing system produces an evaluation so as to analyze, evaluate, improve, and design promotions. The promotion pricing system generates promotion price evaluations and recommendations for each promotion related to a target product, along with analyzing competing products from the same seller and its competitors. The computerized promotion pricing system includes modules for carrying out necessary analytical steps, where the modules cooperate to implement a statistical market response estimation that provide statistically stable information on customer response to promotions using either an attractive or a multiplicative model, where the model is selected dynamically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Manugistics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Weldon Boyd, Prashandt Narayan Balepur, Henry Frederick Schwarz, Philip David Reginald Apps, Ravishankar Venkata Nandiwada, Brian Lawrence Monteiro, Thomas Edward Guardino
  • Promotion pricing system and method
    Publication number: 20020123930
    Abstract: The present invention provides a promotion pricing system and a related model for producing a value evaluation and recommendation for promotion on a targeted product so as to analyze, evaluate, improve, and design promotions to meet a user's need. The promotion pricing system generates promotion price evaluations and recommendations for each product promotion related to a target product of a user along with associated competing products from the user and competitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: Manugistics Atlanta Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Weldon Boyd, Prashandt Narayan Balepur, Henry Frederick Schwarz, Phillip David Reginald Apps, Ravishankar Venkata Nandiwada, Brian Lawrence Monteiro, Thomas Edward Guardino