Patents by Inventor Roger Douglas Lederman

Roger Douglas 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).

  • Customer segmentation based on latent response to market events
    Patent number: 11010774
    Abstract: A customer segmentation method, system, and computer program product, include inputting a set of characteristic features for each of a plurality of customers, defining a customer-event map that maps the characteristic features of each of the customers to a plurality of event categories, and estimating a likelihood of an event driven purchase for each product type and an event category combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger Douglas Lederman, Herbert Scott McFaddin, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami
  • Market event identification based on latent response to market events
    Patent number: 10839408
    Abstract: A market event identification method, system, and computer program product, include defining a likelihood function that maps a likelihood of a purchase of a product during an event by customers having similar customer features and estimating a likelihood of an event-driven purchase by the customers for each of a plurality of product-event combinations using the defined likelihood function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger Douglas Lederman, Herbert Scott McFaddin, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING EVENT RESPONSE POOLS FOR EVENT DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20180096370
    Abstract: A event response pool identification method, system, and computer program product, include grouping segments of customers into a plurality of groups according to a measure of a similarity between the customers in the segments of customers, measuring a strength of an impact on a plurality of events for a group of the segments of customers by analyzing sales data across a full product set, and mapping each event to the plurality of groups that exhibit a strongest strength of the impact to the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Roger Douglas Lederman, Herbert Scott McFaddin, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION BASED ON LATENT RESPONSE TO MARKET EVENTS
    Publication number: 20180096371
    Abstract: A customer segmentation method, system, and computer program product, include inputting a set of characteristic features for each of a plurality of customers, defining a customer-event map that maps the characteristic features of each of the customers to a plurality of event categories, and estimating a likelihood of an event driven purchase for each product type and an event category combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Roger Douglas Lederman, Herbert Scott McFaddin, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MARKET EVENT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON LATENT RESPONSE TO MARKET EVENTS
    Publication number: 20180096368
    Abstract: A market event identification method, system, and computer program product, include defining a likelihood function that maps a likelihood of a purchase of a product during an event by customers having similar customer features and estimating a likelihood of an event-driven purchase by the customers for each of a plurality of product-event combinations using the defined likelihood function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Roger Douglas Lederman, Herbert Scott McFaddin, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami