Patents by Inventor Kan-Lee Liou

Kan-Lee Liou 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).

  • Publication number: 20040049415
    Abstract: A procurement rescheduling system (20) includes a production planning module (30) for scheduling production and generating production scheduling sheets (102) according to received purchase order modifications (100); a material management module (31) for managing inventory data and bill of material data stored in a database (33); and a procurement rescheduling module (32) for rescheduling material procurement according to the production scheduling sheets. The procurement rescheduling module includes a time span management submodule (321) for managing procurement time spans for different materials, a demand calculation submodule (322) for calculating revised demand for materials in each procurement time span, a delivery date calculation submodule (323) for calculating delivery dates for materials procurement according to the production scheduling sheets, and a material purchase order generating submodule (324) for automatically generating revised material purchase orders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Kan-Lee Liou, ZhiBiao Xiao, Tzung-Lin Wu, Qing Li