Patents by Inventor Alan D. Taylor

Alan D. Taylor 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).

  • Patent number: 5983205
    Abstract: Two methods, "Adjusted Winner (AW)" and "Proportional Allocation (PA)," are provided for the fair division of a collection of items, which could be either real goods or issues in a dispute, between two claimants (parties). The methods can be implemented as a digital computer software program. In both methods, the parties are each given 100 points and then bid on each item using their points. Under the AW method, which is applicable to indivisible items, each party is initially allocated those goods, or wins on those issues, for which it bids the higher number of points. Then the goods or issues are reassigned, or resolved differently, to achieve equality of points based on the quotients of the parties' bids. Under PA, each good or issue is divided according to a ratio based on both parties' bids for that good or issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Steven J. Brams, Alan D. Taylor