Patents by Inventor Roger D. Lederman

Roger D. Lederman 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: 11176492
    Abstract: A machine learning algorithm is trained to learn to cluster a plurality of original-destination routes in a network for transporting cargo into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the original-destination routes, and to learn to cluster the plurality of clusters into a plurality of subgroups based on customer behavior. Influencing criteria associated with each of the subgroups may be determined and based on the influencing criteria, a price elasticity curve for each of the subgroups may be generated. Based on the price elasticity curve and current network traffic, cargo transportation price associated with each of the subgroups may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pawan R. Chowdhary, Markus R. Ettl, Roger D. Lederman, Tim Nonner, Ulrich B. Schimpel, Zhengliang Xue, Hongxia Yang
  • Patent number: 11151604
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling the timing of customer interactions (e.g., targeted product or service offerings to customers) in order to determine optimally efficient usage of a seller's available inventory are disclosed. A customer selection problem (CSP) may be formulated and solved to implement a customer selection policy for controlling the timing with which customers from a customer pool will be targeted with offerings. The customer selection policy may include dynamic optimization to account for intertemporal effects of customer decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam N. Elmachtoub, Roger D. Lederman
  • Patent number: 10692039
    Abstract: System and method that improves cargo logistics may be presented. For instance, shipping capacity in cargo logistics may be best utilized based on providing pricing and scheduling solutions that are jointly optimized and prices differentiated based on flexibility of service request. Scheduled service and pricing may be transmitted as a signal to control execution of the cargo logistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pawan R. Chowdhary, Markus R. Ettl, Zhenyu Hu, Roger D. Lederman, Zhengliang Xue
  • Patent number: 10572890
    Abstract: System, method and computer program product for effective supply-side planning of inventories during product transitions. The system for a supply-side entity that generates recommendations that include personalized shaping actions to control each customer's rate of adoption of a new product to replace an older legacy product during a transition period, and optimize overall use of available supply. The method optimizes personalized shaping actions so that a customer is transitioned at a speed that suits their personal profile as well as the seller's production/inventory constraints for each product. Shaping actions are determined based on the trajectory of each product's lifecycle. Further, customer-level adoption patterns for transitioning products are predicted from past behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roger D. Lederman, Rajesh Kumar Ravi, Thomas L. Scheid
  • Patent number: 10546350
    Abstract: A method for projecting performance of a target asset compared to a benchmark, the method comprising receiving one or more target matrices corresponding to a target portfolio and one or more benchmark matrices corresponding to a benchmark portfolio, wherein the target matrices and benchmark matrices comprise elements corresponding to variables that influence portfolio performance trajectory, computing a target performance trajectory based on the one or more target matrices and a benchmark performance trajectory based on the benchmark matrices, identifying actions to bring the target performance trajectory above the benchmark performance trajectory; and communicating the identified actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chitra Dorai, Roger D. Lederman, Xu Sun
  • Publication number: 20190213500
    Abstract: A machine learning algorithm is trained to learn to cluster a plurality of original-destination routes in a network for transporting cargo into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the original-destination routes, and to learn to cluster the plurality of clusters into a plurality of subgroups based on customer behavior. Influencing criteria associated with each of the subgroups may be determined and based on the influencing criteria, a price elasticity curve for each of the subgroups may be generated. Based on the price elasticity curve and current network traffic, cargo transportation price associated with each of the subgroups may be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Pawan R. Chowdhary, Markus R. Ettl, Roger D. Lederman, Tim Nonner, Ulrich B. Schimpel, Zhengliang Xue, Hongxia Yang
  • Patent number: 10332032
    Abstract: A machine learning algorithm is trained to learn to cluster a plurality of original-destination routes in a network for transporting cargo into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the original-destination routes, and to learn to cluster the plurality of clusters into a plurality of subgroups based on customer behavior. Influencing criteria associated with each of the subgroups may be determined and based on the influencing criteria, a price elasticity curve for each of the subgroups may be generated. Based on the price elasticity curve and current network traffic, cargo transportation price associated with each of the subgroups may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pawan R. Chowdhary, Markus R. Ettl, Roger D. Lederman, Tim Nonner, Ulrich B. Schimpel, Zhengliang Xue, Hongxia Yang
  • Publication number: 20180121829
    Abstract: A machine learning algorithm is trained to learn to cluster a plurality of original-destination routes in a network for transporting cargo into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the original-destination routes, and to learn to cluster the plurality of clusters into a plurality of subgroups based on customer behavior. Influencing criteria associated with each of the subgroups may be determined and based on the influencing criteria, a price elasticity curve for each of the subgroups may be generated. Based on the price elasticity curve and current network traffic, cargo transportation price associated with each of the subgroups may be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Pawan R. Chowdhary, Markus R. Ettl, Roger D. Lederman, Tim Nonner, Ulrich B. Schimpel, Zhengliang Xue, Hongxia Yang
  • Publication number: 20180082253
    Abstract: System and method that improves cargo logistics may be presented. For instance, shipping capacity in cargo logistics may be best utilized based on providing pricing and scheduling solutions that are jointly optimized and prices differentiated based on flexibility of service request. Scheduled service and pricing may be transmitted as a signal to control execution of the cargo logistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Pawan R. Chowdhary, Markus R. Ettl, Zhenyu Hu, Roger D. Lederman, Zhengliang Xue
  • Publication number: 20170358001
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling the timing of customer interactions (e.g., targeted product or service offerings to customers) in order to determine optimally efficient usage of a seller's available inventory are disclosed. A customer selection problem (CSP) may be formulated and solved to implement a customer selection policy for controlling the timing with which customers from a customer pool will be targeted with offerings. The customer selection policy may include dynamic optimization to account for intertemporal effects of customer decisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Adam Elmachtoub, Roger D. Lederman
  • Publication number: 20170161835
    Abstract: A method for projecting performance of a target asset compared to a benchmark, the method comprising receiving one or more target matrices corresponding to a target portfolio and one or more benchmark matrices corresponding to a benchmark portfolio, wherein the target matrices and benchmark matrices comprise elements corresponding to variables that influence portfolio performance trajectory, computing a target performance trajectory based on the one or more target matrices and a benchmark performance trajectory based on the benchmark matrices, identifying actions to bring the target performance trajectory above the benchmark performance trajectory; and communicating the identified actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Chitra Dorai, Roger D. Lederman, Xu Sun
  • Publication number: 20170116531
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for detecting an emerging life event and identifying an action plan to remediate affects of the life event are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method comprises specifying a group of emerging life events, and a group of behavior features that map to the emerging life events; receiving behavioral data identifying behavior of a person; and analyzing the behavioral data to determine if any of the specified behavior features are identified in the behavioral data. When one or more of the behavior feature are identified in the behavioral data as behavior features of the person, the identified behavior features are mapped to one or more of the specified emerging life events; and the mapped emerging life events is used to determine an action plan to remediate affects of that life event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Chitra Dorai, Roger D. Lederman, Ying Li
  • Publication number: 20160328734
    Abstract: System, method and computer program product for effective supply-side planning of inventories during product transitions. The system for a supply-side entity that generates recommendations that include personalized shaping actions to control each customer's rate of adoption of a new product to replace an older legacy product during a transition period, and optimize overall use of available supply. The method optimizes personalized shaping actions so that a customer is transitioned at a speed that suits their personal profile as well as the seller's production/inventory constraints for each product. Shaping actions are determined based on the trajectory of each product's lifecycle. Further, customer-level adoption patterns for transitioning products are predicted from past behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Roger D. Lederman, Rajesh Kumar Ravi, Thomas L. Scheid
  • Publication number: 20150066569
    Abstract: A method for balancing supply and demand for a product using demand-shaping action includes identifying an imbalance between supply and demand for a given product. A customer choice model is generated based on collected historical sales data pertaining to the given product and at least one product similar to the given product. The customer choice model is configured to estimate, for a given customer or group of customers, a likelihood of effecting a substitution between each product pair of the given product and the at least one product similar to the given product, for each of one or more available demand shaping actions. One or more of the available demand shaping actions are automatically selected to minimize an estimate of revenue shortfall or inventory holding costs resulting from the identified imbalance between supply and demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas R. Ervolina, Markus Ettl, Roger D. Lederman, Marek Petrik, Rajesh Kumar Ravi
  • Publication number: 20150066566
    Abstract: A method for balancing supply and demand for a product using demand-shaping action includes identifying an imbalance between supply and demand for a given product. A customer choice model is generated based on collected historical sales data pertaining to the given product and at least one product similar to the given product. The customer choice model is configured to estimate, for a given customer or group of customers, a likelihood of effecting a substitution between each product pair of the given product and the at least one product similar to the given product, for each of one or more available demand shaping actions. One or more of the available demand shaping actions are automatically selected to minimize an estimate of revenue shortfall or inventory holding costs resulting from the identified imbalance between supply and demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: THOMAS R. ERVOLINA, Markus Ettl, Roger D. Lederman, Marek Petrik, Rajesh Kumar Ravi