Patents by Inventor Wolfram Conen

Wolfram Conen 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).

  • Preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions
    Patent number: 7742971
    Abstract: In determining a winning allocation in a forward auction, reverse auction or an exchange, a plurality of allocations are defined wherein each allocation defines a trade between one or more potential buyers and one or more potential sellers. At least one potential buyer is queried regarding at least one preference of the buyer about at least one allocation or a bundle associated therewith. The buyer's reply or intimation to the query is received and, based on the reply or intimation, each allocation that is either not feasible or not optimal is eliminated from consideration as the winning allocation. This process is repeated until a predetermined criteria is met whereupon one of the remaining allocations is selected as the winning allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: CombineNet, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuomas Sandholm, Wolfram Conen
  • Preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions
    Publication number: 20040039682
    Abstract: In determining a winning allocation in a forward auction, reverse auction or an exchange, a plurality of allocations are defined wherein each allocation defines a trade between one or more potential buyers and one or more potential sellers. At least one potential buyer is queried regarding at least one preference of the buyer about at least one allocation or a bundle associated therewith. The buyer's reply or intimation to the query is received and, based on the reply or intimation, each allocation that is either not feasible or not optimal is eliminated from consideration as the winning allocation. This process is repeated until a predetermined criteria is met whereupon one of the remaining allocations is selected as the winning allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Tuomas Sandholm, Wolfram Conen