Patents by Inventor Lekha Bhargavi

Lekha Bhargavi 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).

  • Forecasting demand for products
    Patent number: 8255266
    Abstract: A global demand forecast is generated for a product group in a computer system, where the product group comprises a plurality of products of a predefined genre. A historical relationship between an aggregate of product level demand forecasts and actual demand for the products in the product group, and the global demand forecast are used to adjust a critical ratio employed to generate a product level demand forecast in the computer system for a product in the product group. The critical ratio expresses a probability that the product level demand forecast will exceed an actual demand for a corresponding product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hoi-Cheung Pang, Sanjay K. Dash, Dilip S. Kumar, Anil Reddy Musku, Daniel M. Grossman, Lekha A. Bhargavi
  • Forecasting demand for products
    Patent number: 8131581
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are provided to adjust a product demand forecast. In one embodiment, a value is determined of an aggregation of a plurality of product level demand forecasts for a respective plurality of products in a product group at a desired value of a critical ratio. The critical ratio expresses a probability that a forecast will exceed a demand for a given product. A ratio is determined of the aggregation of the product level demand forecasts to a global demand forecast for the product group in the computer system. The ratio is verified as to whether it is congruous with a historical ratio of past aggregate product level demand forecasts to actual product demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hoi-Cheung Pang, Sanjay K. Dash, Dilip S. Kumar, Anil Reddy Musku, Daniel M. Grossman, Lekha A. Bhargavi
  • Using page-view data to project demand for an item
    Publication number: 20050049907
    Abstract: A facility for projecting future purchasing activity for a selected item being offered for sale by a merchant is described. The facility retrieves data indicating, during each plurality of past times, an observed level of browsing activity performed at the merchant with respect to the selected item. The facility transforms the retrieved data into a projection of future purchasing activity at the merchant for the selected item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
  • Manufacturing units of an item in response to demand for the item projected from page-view data
    Publication number: 20050049909
    Abstract: A facility for projecting future purchasing activity for a selected item being offered for sale by a merchant is described. The facility retrieves data indicating, during each plurality of past times, an observed level of browsing activity performed at the merchant with respect to the selected item. The facility transforms the retrieved data into a projection of future purchasing activity at the merchant for the selected item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005