Patents by Inventor Glen Osterhout

Glen Osterhout 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).

  • Contact stream optimization using FEC and CC constraints
    Patent number: 8285583
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software for conducting a marketing campaign are described. One or more scores associated with sending offers to proposed contacts are received; and an overall campaign score corresponding to a sum of the scores is optimized to generate optimal assignments of offers to customers. The optimal assignments are included in the marketing campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francisco Jauffred, Mukul Goyal, Glen Osterhout, Ruby Kennedy, Robert Crites
  • CONTACT STREAM OPTIMIZATION USING FEC AND CC CONSTRAINTS
    Publication number: 20120185326
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software for conducting a marketing campaign are described. One or more scores associated with sending offers to proposed contacts are received; and an overall campaign score corresponding to a sum of the scores is optimized to generate optimal assignments of offers to customers. The optimal assignments are included in the marketing campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: FRANCISCO JAUFFRED, MUKUL GOYAL, GLEN OSTERHOUT, RUBY KENNEDY, ROBERT CRITES
  • Contact stream optimization considering FEC and CC constraints
    Patent number: 8135608
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software for conducting a marketing campaign are described. One or more scores associated with sending offers to proposed contacts are received; and an overall campaign score corresponding to a sum of the scores is optimized to generate optimal assignments of offers to customers. The optimal assignments are included in the marketing campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francisco Jauffred, Mukul Goyal, Glen Osterhout, Ruby Kennedy, Robert Crites
  • CONTACT STREAM OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20090177522
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software for conducting a marketing campaign are described. One or more scores associated with sending offers to proposed contacts are received; and an overall campaign score corresponding to a sum of the scores is optimized to generate optimal assignments of offers to customers. The optimal assignments are included in the marketing campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Francisco Jauffred, Mukul Goyal, Glen Osterhout, Ruby Kennedy, Robert Crites
  • CAMPAIGN OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20080300981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software for combinatorial optimization are described. A first combination of offers are selected from a list of combinations of offers that pass a first set of rules belonging to a first category of rules, and it is determined whether the first combination of offers passes a second set of rules belonging to a second, different category of rules. If the first combination passes the second set of rules, the first combination is returned as a solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Crites, Mukul Goyal, Glen Osterhout, Ruby Kennedy, Francisco Jauffred
  • Method for contact stream optimization
    Publication number: 20050289000
    Abstract: A method for optimizing transactions to customers from a list of transactions is described. The method includes generating a frequency distribution of scores for each offer based on at least one constraint, determining a score threshold based on the frequency distribution of scores, and adding or removing transactions from the list of transactions based on the score threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Eric Chiang, Robert Crites, Ruby Kennedy, Brett Knowlton, Patrick Martin, Glen Osterhout, Yuchun Lee