Patents by Inventor Vijay Raghuraman

Vijay Raghuraman 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).

  • Multiple award optimization
    Publication number: 20030135444
    Abstract: A method for multiple award optimization bidding in online auctions, including providing, by the buyer, a price ceiling and a tolerance for a resource, soliciting bids, having a unit price and quantity, from suppliers, validating the bids if the bids meet a set of rules, generating an optimal solution, having an optimal quantity and an optimal unit price from at least one supplier, comparing the optimal unit price to a compare value, and replacing the compare value with the optimal unit price if the optimal unit price is less than the compare value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Nachiappan Annamalai, Vijay Raghuraman, Christopher Smith, Benjamin S. Snyder