Patents by Inventor Barrire K. Tondevold

Barrire K. Tondevold 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).

  • System and method for estimating business demand based on business influences
    Patent number: 5712985
    Abstract: A demand forecasting and production scheduling system and method creates production schedules for various business items describing a forecasted demand for the business items in a number of future time intervals. The system includes a computer managed database of various profiles, including a base profile for each business item, and a number of influence profiles. The profiles describe variations in demand for the business item in a number of time intervals. The base profile describes an underlying level of demand for a business item that is anticipated for the business item absent any influencing factors, such as promotional sales, holidays, weather variations, and the like. The variations in demand for the business item due to such influence factors are stored in the database as influence profiles. The influence profiles may be either standard, percentage, or seasonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Inventors: Michael D. Lee, Randall K. Fields, Jamie T. Pond, Barrire K. Tondevold