Patents by Inventor Andrew J. Davenport
Andrew J. Davenport 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).
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Patent number: 9311615Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
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Patent number: 9299046Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
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Publication number: 20150073862Abstract: A preventative maintenance method and a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters such as failure history combined with causative factors like weather and independent external risk factors such as vandalism and risk of flooding. The present invention may further have a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters, such as failure history combined with causative factors such as weather and independent external risk factors like vandalism and risk of flooding having a location based asset/service failure risk estimator, an external risk estimates database for feeding and an integrated failure risk database, the external risk estimates database feeding the integrated failure risk database.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Arun Hampapur, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Lexing Xie
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Publication number: 20140236650Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
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Patent number: 8670856Abstract: A method and system for optimizing modules of a steel manufacturing process includes a plurality of manufacturing modules for a manufacturing process. Each of the modules have a plurality of steps. The plurality of modules include at least an upstream module, a casting module, and a downstream module. Each of the plurality of modules have parameters, and include at least one variable event. The variable event is adjustable for optimization of the manufacturing process while the parameters are being maintained for each of the plurality of modules. A communication system is used for exchanging information between the modules while the manufacturing process is occurring to adjust the at least one variable event for optimizing the manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Toshiyuki Hama, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Chandrasekhara K. Reddy, Stuart A. Siegel
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Publication number: 20120323353Abstract: A method and system for optimizing modules of a steel manufacturing process includes a plurality of manufacturing modules for a manufacturing process. Each of the modules have a plurality of steps. The plurality of modules include at least an upstream module, a casting module, and a downstream module. Each of the plurality of modules have parameters, and include at least one variable event. The variable event is adjustable for optimization of the manufacturing process while the parameters are being maintained for each of the plurality of modules. A communication system is used for exchanging information between the modules while the manufacturing process is occurring to adjust the at least one variable event for optimizing the manufacturing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Toshiyuki Hama, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Chandrasekhara K. Reddy, Stuart A. Siegel
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Publication number: 20120316906Abstract: A method for determining a maintenance schedule of geographically dispersed physical assets includes receiving asset data including infrastructure relationships between the assets, modeling failure risk of the assets based on spatial, temporal and network relationships, and producing the maintenance schedule according to a combination of the risk model, asset data, maintenance, and external operation constraints. The maintenance schedule may be corrective and/or strategic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: ARUN HAMPAPUR, Hongfei Li, Andrew J. Davenport, Shilpa Mahatma, Lexing Xie, Rogerio S. Feris, Wei Shan Dong, Zhong Bo Jiang, Hao Wang, Jing Xiao, Chunhua Tian
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Publication number: 20120173300Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
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Publication number: 20120130759Abstract: A preventative maintenance method and a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters such as failure history combined with causative factors like weather and independent external risk factors such as vandalism and risk of flooding. The present invention may further have a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters, such as failure history combined with causative factors such as weather and independent external risk factors like vandalism and risk of flooding having a location based asset/service failure risk estimator, an external risk estimates database for feeding and an integrated failure risk database, the external risk estimates database feeding the integrated failure risk database.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Arun Hampapur, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Lexing Xie
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Publication number: 20120059684Abstract: A method for determining a maintenance schedule of geographically dispersed physical assets includes receiving asset data including infrastructure relationships between the assets, modeling failure risk of the assets based on spatial, temporal and network relationships, and producing the maintenance schedule according to a combination of the risk model, asset data, maintenance, and external operation constraints. The maintenance schedule may be corrective and/or strategic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: ARUN HAMPAPUR, HONGFEI LI, ANDREW J. DAVENPORT, SHILPA MAHATMA, LEXING XIE, ROGERIO S. FERIS, WEI SHAN DONG, ZHONG BO JIANG, HAO WANG, JING XIAO, CHUNHUA TIAN
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Patent number: 7702561Abstract: A method is provided for identifying a cost-minimizing bid set in a reverse combinatorial auction subject to various business rules for all-or-nothing bundled bids. The method includes introducing a decision variable for each bid, introducing a counting variable to indicate whether bids from a supplier are chosen in an optimal bid set, modeling demand constraints for each item using the bid variables, modeling minimum and maximum numbers of suppliers based on the counting variables, introducing dummy variables to ensure existence of feasible solutions, for a given cost formulating an objective of choosing bids that arrive early based on an additional timestamped objective with the given cost level as a constraint, and introducing price modifications to handle the formulated objective of choosing bids that arrive early.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Ho Soo Lee
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Publication number: 20080172277Abstract: A method of scheduling of the manufacturing operations required to produce cast steel products from molten iron in a steel manufacturing plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant R. Kalagnanam
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Patent number: 6873967Abstract: A computer system provides one or more lists of product combinations to one or more shoppers over one or more networks. The computer system comprises one or more central processing units (CPUs), one or more memories, and one or more network interfaces to one or more networks. An electronic shopping assistant process implemented on the computer system receives one or more inputs of constraints from shoppers, sends out the inputs to one or more shopping list generating processes in one or more stores, receives one or more lists of recommended product combinations that satisfy the given constraints, and allows shoppers to view and select one or more product combinations from received lists.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2000Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Ying Tat Leung, Andrew J. Davenport, Juhnyoung Lee
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Patent number: 6611814Abstract: A computer system and method uses one or more virtual wish lists of one or more shoppers over a computer network. One process extracts information from online address books or other personal databases, and creates lists of recipients for whom a shopper wants to purchase products. A second process obtains virtual wish lists of recipients by observing their visits to online stores, and other online behavior. Recipients are asked for permission to make this data available to other shoppers, online stores, and other Web sites. Recipients can modify their virtual wish lists, and selectively approve of their use by other shoppers, etc. A third process creates shopping lists for the recipients, and generates lists of recommended products for shoppers to buy for intended recipients.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2000Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Juhnyoung Lee, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Andrew J. Davenport, Ho Soo Lee
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Publication number: 20030033236Abstract: A method is provided for identifying a cost-minimizing bid set in a reverse combinatorial auction subject to various business rules for all-or-nothing bundled bids. The method includes introducing a decision variable for each bid, introducing a counting variable to indicate whether bids from a supplier are chosen in an optimal bid set, modeling demand constraints for each item using the bid variables, modeling minimum and maximum numbers of suppliers based on the counting variables, introducing dummy variables to ensure existence of feasible solutions, for a given cost formulating an objective of choosing bids that arrive early based on an additional timestamped objective with the given cost level as a constraint, and introducing price modifications to handle the formulated objective of choosing bids that arrive early.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Ho Soo Lee