Patents by Inventor Benjamin Letham

Benjamin Letham 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: 10673711
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for bundling resources for a resource provisioning platform. A system is disclosed that includes a plurality of resources, wherein each resource belongs to one of a plurality of categories; a bundling system having: a data collection system that gathers historical transaction data associated with the resources; an analysis system that analyzes the historical transaction data to assign estimated valuations to different bundles of resources and includes (a) a substitution effect analyzer to analyze a substitution effect of resources in each category using discrete choice modeling and marginal value estimation, and (b) a joint dependence analyzer that determines intra-category and inter-category joint dependent inferences across all resources; and a bundle selection system that selects a set of bundles for provisioning based on the estimated valuations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Letham, Anshul Sheopuri, Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20190166018
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for bundling resources for a resource provisioning platform. A system is disclosed that includes a plurality of resources, wherein each resource belongs to one of a plurality of categories; a bundling system having: a data collection system that gathers historical transaction data associated with the resources; an analysis system that analyzes the historical transaction data to assign estimated valuations to different bundles of resources and includes (a) a substitution effect analyzer to analyze a substitution effect of resources in each category using discrete choice modeling and marginal value estimation, and (b) a joint dependence analyzer that determines intra-category and inter-category joint dependent inferences across all resources; and a bundle selection system that selects a set of bundles for provisioning based on the estimated valuations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin Letham, Anshul Sheopuri, Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20180121577
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain a plurality of change points that are each indicative of a potential change in a curve relating to a metric associated with a system. A prediction model for providing forecasts relating to the metric can be generated. A seasonality model for predicting seasonality associated with the metric can be generated. A combined forecast model can be generated based on the prediction model and the seasonality model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Sean Jude Taylor, Thomas Benjamin Letham, Sanghyeon Park, Stephen M. DeLucia
  • Publication number: 20150081424
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining transaction data for two or more items, determining valuations for the two or more items, grouping the two or more items into one or more bundles, wherein each bundle comprises a different combination of the two or more items, estimating a joint distribution of valuations for the two or more items in each of the one or more bundles based on the transaction data for the two or more items, and estimating expected profits for each of the one or more bundles over a range of bundle prices from the joint distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Benjamin Letham, Pavankumar Murali, Anshul Sheopuri, Wei Sun