Patents by Inventor Robert Cornelius Hampshire

Robert Cornelius Hampshire 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).

  • Enterprise portfolio analysis using finite state Markov decision process
    Patent number: 7552078
    Abstract: Generating a transition plan for a computer resource portfolio, representing each resource as a state machine, by generating a transition plan, the transition plan having a set of acts for transitioning states of the resources, to move the computer resource portfolio from a present state, the present state based on an inventory of present computer capabilities, to a future state. The future state is identified based on a difference between a present state and an identified state meeting given performance requirements. The transition plan is optimized to maximize the sum value of the computer resource portfolio values added over the state sequence of the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Flaxer, Paul Gregory Greenstein, Robert Cornelius Hampshire, Anil Nigam, John George Vergo