Resource Planning, Allocation Or Scheduling For A Business Operation Patents (Class 705/7.12)
- Skill based matching of a person or a group to a task (Class 705/7.14)
- Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group (Class 705/7.15)
- Schedule adjustment for a person or group (Class 705/7.16)
- Staff planning in a project environment (Class 705/7.17)
- Calendar-based scheduling for a person or group (Class 705/7.18)
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Patent number: 11593740Abstract: An example method includes obtaining data associated with a plurality of process workflows, performing an automated workflow analysis of the data at least by (i) evaluating workflow structures to identify at least one similarity between one or more portions of the process workflows, wherein the workflow structures are modeled from the process workflow data and, (ii) responsive to evaluating the workflow structures, clustering, based on the at least one similarity, the portions of the process workflows into at least one common process group that is shared between the process workflows, identifying, based on the at least one common process group shared between the process workflows, at least one process improvement that is associated with at least one of the process workflows, and outputting, by the computing system, a recommendation associated with the at least one process improvement.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventor: Huanchee Chan
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Patent number: 11592979Abstract: A whiteboard template can include multiple regions that are associated with different data sources. Each region can be associated with a different data source and can present objects based upon logical representations stored in an associated data source. Logical representations of objects in a region can include links to other objects in other regions associated with other data sources. When an object is moved between regions, transformations can be applied to the logical representation associated with the object. If the object is linked to other objects, the transformation can be propagated to the logical representations of the linked objects. In this manner, a single movement of an object between regions in a template can result in the updating of multiple objects and associated data sources, the updating of the visual properties of objects in multiple regions, and updating the visual properties of the regions themselves.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Clea Allington, Dylan A Leatham, Palmer H. Batt, Christian James Colando, Francois M. Rouaix
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Patent number: 11589102Abstract: The embodiment of the present application provides screen projection techniques applied in a computer device, and the techniques comprise obtaining first information indicative of a capability of the computer device; obtaining second information indicative of a capability of a target terminal, wherein the target terminal is configured as a projection object of the computer device; determining a performer of performing rendering operations on multimedia content based on the first information and the second information; performing the rendering operations on the multimedia content by the computer device and sending rendered multimedia content to the target terminal when the computer device is the performer. The screen projection techniques described in the embodiment may dynamically determine a performer of performing special effect rendering operations based on the capability of the computer devices and the capability of the target terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI HODE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhihui Yang, Hao Wang, Yaoqi Zhang
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Patent number: 11582347Abstract: A system and method for managing virtual queues. A cloud-based queue service manages a plurality of queues hosted by one or more entities. The queue service is in constant communication with the entities providing queue management, queue analysis, and queue recommendations. The queue service is likewise in direct communication with queued persons. Sending periodic updates while also motivating and incentivizing punctuality and minimizing wait times based on predictive analysis. The predictive analysis uses “Big Data” and other available data resources, for which the predictions assist in the balancing of persons across multiple queues for the same event or multiple persons across a sequence of queues for sequential events.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: VIRTUAL HOLD TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Daniel Bohannon, Richard Daniel Siebert, Jay Power, Matthew Donaldson Moller, Matthew DiMaria, Shannon Lekas
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Patent number: 11572767Abstract: A design method for a personalized drill bit for a complex difficult-to-drill formation includes: S1, acquiring rock drillability indexes of a drilled formation; S2, performing digital simulation analysis of rock breaking of bit teeth and a composite rock breaking experiment of a ring gear and a drill bit, and establishing a mechanical model of the rock interaction at the bottom of a well; S3, establishing an integrated dynamics model of drill string-drill bit-rock system coupling; S4, designing a tooth shape, a tooth distribution density, a crown shape and a gauge protection structure for rock mechanics properties of a complex difficult-to-drill formation; S5, optimizing bit nozzle and hydraulic structure parameters by using the computational fluid dynamics theory and the numerical simulation method; S6.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Qingyou Liu, Haiyan Zhu
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Patent number: 11556876Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for detecting business anomalies. Enterprise data as well as compliance rules (e.g., business operational rules) are analyzed to identify entities and concepts to be placed in an ontology. The identified entities and concepts are represented as multi-dimensional vectors. The updates, movements and access to the enterprise data and compliance rules are tracked to determine parameters, such as information velocity, associated with at least some of the elements of the multi-dimensional vectors. The meaning from the enterprise data as well as from the data parameters is discerned. The discerned enterprise data and discerned data parameters are compared with the historical and/or projected utilization of the discerned enterprise data and discerned data parameters to identify any differences. Statistical analysis is then applied based on the enterprise data and the identified differences to generate a value corresponding to a prediction of a business anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven B. Adler, Hyman D. Chantz
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Patent number: 11555946Abstract: Example embodiments provide systems and methods for simulating a disease outbreak using a relatively simple formula based on a limited number of input parameters. In particular, disease severity is computed based on a relationship between leaf wetness duration and average temperature during a wetness period. The resulting model is a physical, deterministic model that accepts hourly weather data as input and outputs the most significant severity event of disease infection during a specified (e.g., one-day) period. This information can then be used to guide the application of various treatments when they can be most effective (e.g., when predicted disease severity is at its worst).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: Joseph Martin Russo
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Patent number: 11549818Abstract: A system for casual driver ride sharing includes an interface and processor. The interface is to receive a request for a ride from a user, wherein the request includes GPS information for the user. The processor is to determine compatibility between the typical route information and the request for the ride; determine a ranked list based at least in part on the compatibility; and provide a ride offer to a driver of the one or more casual drivers based at least in part on the ranked list.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: David Dryjanski, Lev Popov, Timothy Brown, Logan Green, Austin Broyles
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Patent number: 11550825Abstract: A system and method for identifying at least one association of an entity. The system includes a processing module and a database arrangement communicably coupled to processing module. The processing module is operable to receive an input comprising data related to the entity; acquire web content related to the received input from a plurality of data sources; filter the acquired web content to obtain information relating to the entity; identify probable associations of the entity from the information relating to the entity using an ontology; determine for each of the probable associations, at least one of: a recency attribute, a frequency attribute, a proximity attribute, a semantics attribute; determine a probability score for each of the probable associations of the entity; and identify the at least one association of the entity from the probable associations, wherein the at least one association corresponds to a highest probability score.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Innoplexus AGInventors: Gaurav Tripathi, Vatsal Agarwal, Nikhil Vinod Fulzele
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Patent number: 11537961Abstract: Described in detail herein is a forecasting system. In one embodiment, the system can generate forecast data for amount of labor and physical objects needed at various facilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Timothy Ryan Hodges, Christopher Wade Spencer
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Patent number: 11530932Abstract: The invention is a method of characterizing a road for at least one route travelled by at least one road user, with sensors: a three-axis accelerometer (ACC) and a geolocation sensor (GPS). The method comprises a measurement step (MES), a measurement processing step for disregarding (AFF) the effects related to the road user's speed in order to determine vibrations due to the road roughness, and an analysis of the vibrations to characterize (CAR) the condition of the road.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Maxime Jean, Alexandre Chasse
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Patent number: 11526834Abstract: A method, computer device, and security detail (SD) communication device enables real-time tracking and security of shipments. The method includes receiving a plurality of location signals indicating a location of multiple geographically co-located shipment-related entities that are being tracked as a shipment group. The shipment group includes an assigned security detail that has a corresponding location signal. The method includes presenting the shipment group as a plurality of co-located visual representations on a shipment tracking user interface (STUI) of the computing device, where each location signal is represented among the co-located visual representations. The method includes monitoring for any unscheduled deviations in at least one of an expected co-location and an expected geo-location of received updates to the location signals within the shipment group.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Overhaul Group, Inc.Inventor: Barry Conlon
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Patent number: 11526845Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented system for generating an automated outbound profile. The system may include may perform steps including: receiving data comprising a capacity of a fulfillment center (FC); receiving, a plurality of product identifiers associated with incoming products to the FC; periodically collecting and storing transactional logs for the products at the FC using the product identifier; determining a current inventory for the products stored at the FC using the product identifier; generating an outbound profile for the FC using at least one of the transactional logs and the current inventory using a machine learning algorithm; wherein the outbound profile comprises an expected percentage of outgoing products for a plurality of categories of products; and managing network outbound using the generated outbound profile of the FC by comparing the outbound profile to actual outbound capacity of the FC.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Coupang Corp.Inventor: Je Kim
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Patent number: 11514627Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products for determining and displaying pedigrees based on IBD data. Some implementations use a probabilistic relationship model to obtain various likelihoods of various potential relationships based on pairwise IBD data and pairwise age data. Some implementations build large pedigrees by combining smaller pedigrees. Some implementations display pedigree graphs with various features that are informative and easy to understand.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Ethan M. Jewett, Andrew C. Seaman, Kimberly F. McManus, William A. Freyman, Cordell T. Blakkan, Adam Auton, Joanna L. Mountain, Susan M. Furest, Rachel E. Lopatin, Hang Xu, Hilary M. Vance
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Patent number: 11507922Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for AI-based inbound plan generation. Systems and methods include predicting, using a model, available storage associated with a first fulfillment center; predicting a demand capacity associated with the first fulfillment center; using the predicted available storage and the predicted demand capacity, calculating an excess demand quantity; determining one or more fungible capacity types associated with the excess demand quantity; determining available fungible capacity type quantities in at least one fulfillment center; using the one or more fungible capacity types associated with the excess demand quantity and the available fungible capacity type quantities in at least one fulfillment center, generate an inbound plan for the first fulfillment center; receive a notification of one or more incoming products; and distribute the one or more incoming products according to the generated inbound plan.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Coupang Corp.Inventors: Rajesh Medidhi, Kwon Son, Young Sun Jung, Kyu Hoon Lim, Je Kim
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Patent number: 11507891Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide the ability to determine the availability of a conference room. In one example, a computing device may determine whether there is a user present in a conference room, determine scheduling of the conference room, and illustrate, on a display outside the conference room, availability of the conference room.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Alexander Wayne Clark, Kent E. Biggs, Robert C. Brooks
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Patent number: 11487256Abstract: The invention relates to a method and terminal equipment for planting vegetables on internet rental land, thereby enabling land lessees with idle land to cooperate with urban people seeking to eat green vegetables which are economical and practical, on the one hand, meeting the requirement that urban people eat green vegetables which are practical and reliable, on the other hand, enabling idle land to be reasonably utilized, especially wasting land in rural areas, and bringing considerable benefits to the land lessees; meanwhile, along with the popularization and application of the method and the terminal equipment, a large number of employment posts can be brought to rural areas, and the economic development of the rural areas can be promoted.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Inventor: Liping Chen
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Patent number: 11443342Abstract: In one embodiment, a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next goal or stop. One embodiment is able to take into account a real-time view of supplier inventory and deduce and make available much better-adapted offerings and support for that person's travels and endeavors. In one embodiment, having an understanding of a rate of conversion and its relation to traffic and weather patterns allows service providers to make more accurate predictions about various items, including but not limited to, conversion rates, offer types, offer upgrades, traffic etc. In yet another aspect of the invention, the information collected from many travelers, and also information collected from airlines and weather observers, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Deem, Inc.Inventors: Sean Handel, Patrick Grady, Mark Orttung, Dan Kikinis
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Patent number: 11423492Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a risk of damage to a crop on an agronomic field are described. In an embodiment, a computer system receives, for each hour of a first day, weather data identifying temperature values and humidity values associated with a geographic location. The computer system determines, for a particular hour of the first day, that a temperature value is within a first range of values and a humidity value is within a second range of values and, in response, identifies the particular hour as a risk hour. The computer system computes, for a second day, a risk value for one or more agronomic fields at the geographic location based, at least in part, on one or more identified risk hours between a day of planting a crop on the one or more agronomic fields and the second day.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: CLIMATE LLCInventors: Holly Janine Dail, Patricia Ann Carroll, Bethany Susan Porter Grabow, Jerald Keith Pataky, Ana Malagon
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Patent number: 11422869Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting collaboration activity to a particular user are disclosed. A method embodiment commences by recording event records that codify one or more event attributes corresponding to one or more content object access events. The content object access events are associated with two or more users that interact with the content objects. At a later moment in time, a subset of event records is selected, the selection being based at least in part on timestamps of the content object access events. A display order to apply to the selected subset of event records is determined, the order being based at least in part on timestamps of collaboration events arising from the users. Event messages to present in a user interface are generated, and the event messages are then displayed in the user interface in accordance with the display order.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventors: Brian James Emerick, Naeim Semsarilar, Matthew Andrew Nguyen, Swaroop Butala, Kevin Tsoi, Zachary Kelly
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Patent number: 11418409Abstract: An architecture-specific web-based executable specification tool maintains specification information and metadata for chip and system on a chip (SoC) design. Metadata available in the development ecosystem may be leveraged to improve the specification-to-design process. A unified, integrated environment for subsystem creation, SoC integration, and SoC specification teams is presented using a tool that comprehends SoC constructs. A modern web-based framework (not stand-alone tool) provides collaboration capabilities and allows visual representation and manipulation of data. Connection fabrics (e.g., network on a chip (NoC)) and other project-specific infrastructure can be configured and synthesized on demand and brought in to the design using the common environment. Netlists and other connectivity data can be fed into automated RTL generation processes directly, or used as a reference for implementation design teams.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Todd Christopher Hiers, Chunhua Hu
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Patent number: 11402966Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining change request data defined by the certain analyst user with use of a user interface of a planning application, the change request data defining a change to the dimensional hierarchy used by the planning application, wherein the user interface includes an area that displays a dimensional hierarchy being authored by a certain analyst user; generating a change request data record in dependence on the examining, wherein the change request data record specifies attributes of the change to the dimensional hierarchy; and using data of the change request data record to present prompting data for guiding the certain analyst user in further changing the dimensional hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ilse Breedvelt-Schouten, Mark Kiel
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Patent number: 11392867Abstract: Techniques for assigning various operations to itineraries that can be assigned to personnel. A plurality of tags relating to past instances of a plurality of various operations are retrieved from an electronic data source. Each tag includes a first symbol representing a magnitude of time variance for a respective operation of the various operations and a second symbol representing a likelihood of time variance for the respective operation. The plurality of tags are parsed, and a plurality of predicted time variances are determined. A first predicted time variance is selected for a first operation based on a reliability factor. A combination of operations is identified, and a likelihood that the combination of operations does not exceed at least one personal limit of personnel is determined. An itinerary that includes the identified combination of operations is generated. Personnel are automatically tasked to perform the operations of the generated itinerary.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Michael J. Woicekowski
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Patent number: 11379767Abstract: As an example, a server may receive and/or retrieve news items and process the news items using natural language processing to identify news related to entities (e.g., people, locations, and organizations) extracted from an enterprise resource planning system. A term frequency-inverse document frequency algorithm may be used to identify critical news items that may impact one or more supply chains associated with at least one product that is to be manufactured. A long short-term memory artificial recurrent neural network may be used to determine a confidence score for each critical news item. The confidence scores of the critical news items may be used to adjust replenishment planning and a master build plan that includes a plan to build the at least one product. In this way, news items may be used to automatically (e.g., without human interaction) adjust the master build plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Sathish Kumar Bikumala, Shibi Panikkar, Deepak NagarajeGowda
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Patent number: 11354637Abstract: Methods and systems for performing a pre-staged financial transaction using a computing device involve, for example, receiving, using a self-service transaction terminal processor, pre-staged transaction data in a session at the self-service financial transaction terminal, which pre-staged transaction data was entered on a mobile computing device at a time preceding a time of the session. Thereafter, using the self-service transaction terminal processor, a transaction is executed, based at least in part on the pre-staged transaction data.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: CITICORP CREDIT SERVICES, INC. (USA)Inventors: Renjith Ramachandran, Erwin Catindig, Naeem Rana, Lakshmi Maddala Ragavendra Swamy, Jason Orn
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Patent number: 11348696Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing an agricultural recommendation based on environmental matching includes collecting an underlying environmental characteristic corresponding to an agricultural environment, generating matches of the agricultural environment to a trials; and determining the recommendation based on the matches. A computing system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to collect an environmental characteristic corresponding to an agricultural environment, generate matches of the agricultural environment to trials; and determine the recommendation based on the matches. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to collect an environmental characteristic corresponding to an agricultural environment, generate matches of the agricultural environment to trials; and determine the recommendation based on the matches.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ADVANCED AGRILYTICS HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: William Kess Berg, Jon J. Fridgen, Aaron W. Gault
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Patent number: 11348466Abstract: A system for an autonomous vehicle can receive profile data of a passenger of the autonomous vehicle, the profile data indicating a need of the passenger for audio assistance. Based on the profile data, the system can execute a set of configurations to assist the passenger over a trip duration between a pick-up location and a destination. Execution of the set of configurations can include dynamically monitoring the passenger to determine a state of the passenger, and based on the state of the passenger, output the audio assistance to at least aid the passenger in entering and exiting the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Emily Bartel
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Patent number: 11341432Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automated system for regulating the allocation of resources, or the dissemination of information within a healthcare facility. The automated system includes a context providing system capable of determining the state of a parameter and a facilities management system in communication with the context providing system. An integration protocol is configured to facilitate communication between the context providing system and the facilities management system and the facilities management system allocates resources or disseminates information based upon the value of the parameter provided by the context providing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: HDR Architecture, Inc.Inventors: Timothy E. Koch, Scott R. Winfrey, Von E. Lambert, Diane P. Rock, Denise Bauer Nyberg, Thomas S. Hicks
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Patent number: 11341445Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring and visualizing threshold of user workload. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information describing units of work assigned to individual users within the collaboration environment, individual units of work having individual start dates and individual end dates; determine threshold information including individual values of a threshold parameter for the individual users; effectuate presentation of a user interface based on the values of the work unit parameter, the values of the threshold parameter for the individual users, and/or other information; and/or perform other operations.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Asana, Inc.Inventors: Ye Cheng, Matthew Stevens, Melissa Adams
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Patent number: 11334827Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments include receiving a matrix formulation of at least a portion of the LP problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network, generating an image based on the matrix formulation to identify connected components, partitioning the matrix formulation based, at least in part, on the connected components constraint into at least two partitions, formulating an LP subproblem from each of the at least two partitions, and solving the LP subproblems to generate a global solution to the supply chain planning problem.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc.Inventors: Devanand R, Narayan Nandeda, Tushar Shekhar
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Patent number: 11321942Abstract: A method for measuring plant planting data, and a method for planning operating route, device and system are provided, which relate to the technical field of plant protection. The method includes: training a deep network model using historical information of a planting region (S210); receiving image information of the planting region (S220); processing the image information of the planting region using a deep network model to obtain plant planting data (S230); and outputting the plant planting data (S240). The method for planning operating route utilizes the plant planting data obtained by the measuring method to plan an operating route.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: GUANGZHOU XAIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shuangliang Dai
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Patent number: 11310357Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Randall M. Harris, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
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Patent number: 11303124Abstract: A method for providing a demand-response (DR) signal assignment includes initializing reinforcement learning (RL) agents, each having an exploration scheme and being assigned to a consumer, with initial models about respective RL environments of the consumers. The RL agents send the models to an optimizer. The optimizer computes a DR signal assignment using the models. The RL agents send DR signals in accordance with the DR signal assignment to the consumers so as to aggregately achieve a load reduction by the consumers over a time window. The RL agents monitor the consumers over the time window, and update the models based on the monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tobias Jacobs, Mischa Schmidt
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Patent number: 11301878Abstract: Peer-group based business information can include: generating a set of curated market information for each of a set of business entities such that each set of curated market information enables a determination of one or more markets in which the corresponding business entity currently operates; selecting a subset of the business entities for inclusion in a peer-group cluster in response to the curated market information such that the business entities specified in the peer-group cluster share at least one competitive overlap in one or more of the markets; and providing a user with a relative comparison of the business entities specified in the peer-group cluster.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Databook Labs Inc.Inventors: Anand Shah, Alex Jones
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Systems and methods for integrating, aggregating and utilizing data from a plurality of data sources
Patent number: 11301930Abstract: A method of integrating electronic data including integrating a desktop such that the desktop includes information received from various sources. The information displayed may be analyzed by a business rule to prioritize what information is included in the desktop, and the information may include data from databases, recent member activities, planned future actions, and recommended future actions. The method also includes the ability to integrate and/or aggregate various data sources, such as databases. The combination of the data sources may be performed according to one or more business rules.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Guy R. Langley, Jason W. Lindley, Donald H. Griffin, Jr., Elizabeth Garretson, Ryan R. Barth, Francisco A. Duran, Ann C. Tarrillion, David W. Roberts -
Patent number: 11303535Abstract: A computer-implemented method for interactively authoring a layout of a network includes providing a network of activities, embedded nodes, milestones, benchmarks, and links between at least a portion of the activities, milestones, and benchmarks; identifying a plurality of activity clusters from the activities, each such activity cluster comprising a sequence of linked, contiguous activities in the network; and placing, as a group, the activities of each of the activity clusters on a display grid upon which the network is laid out.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: PMA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.Inventors: Gui Ponce de Leon, Vivek Puri
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Patent number: 11295403Abstract: A hybrid computer-based system and method for scheduling a plan of training programs, such as flight training programs, is disclosed. A heuristic scheduler receives a plan request comprising training programs to schedule, along with a plan vector, scheduling rules, and available resources. The scheduler computes a locally optimized scheduling plan of the training schedules in the request. An evaluator evaluates one or more costs of the scheduling plan. A solver employs stochastic methodology of reordering the plan vector, in order to improve the costs. The scheduler, evaluator, and solver are employed iteratively until a globally optimized scheduling plan is determined. In some embodiments, scheduling rules are arranged in a sequence of constraint-relaxed tiers, allowing for flexibility in heuristic scheduling in light of multiple layers of constraints: validity, i.e., inviolable (hard) constraints that training schedules must meet.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: BRITANNICA KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Yossef Rissin, Asher Dagan, Yosef Ben-Ishay
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Patent number: 11295251Abstract: Embodiments for implementing intelligent opportunity recommendation and management by a processor. A channel selection model mat be applied to a selected opportunity in view of a plurality of opportunity attributes to identify one or more team candidates of an entity or one or more entity partners ranked by alignment with the selected opportunity and determine a recommended opportunity owner from the one or more team candidates of the entity, the one or more entity partners, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Alice J. Chang, Benjamin Dubiel, Xiaoxi Tian, Elizabeth Daly, Inge L. Vejsbjerg, Massimiliano Mattetti, Bei Chen, Oznur Alkan, Adi I. Botea, Sanjmeet Abrol, Weiwei Li, Alan Zwiren
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Patent number: 11290438Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for enforcing a limit on single sign-on (SSO) sessions for users across multiple data centers in a multi data center deployment. Users may request access to resources that are governed by an access manager deployed across multiple data centers, with each data center being associated with its own identifier. Each user may be associated with an identity attribute preserved in identity stores across the multiple data centers. The prerequisite for session creation at a data center may be to update the identity attribute of the user to that data center's identifier. If the identity attribute can be updated successfully, the access manager can create a new SSO session at that data center. Updates to the identity attribute may be synchronized across all of the data centers, with each data center aware of any existing sessions based on the current value of the identity attribute.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Stephen Mathew, Vipin Koottayi
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Patent number: 11288610Abstract: A method for managing processes by using spreadsheet-type data is provided. The method includes steps of: a process managing server (a) if spreadsheet-type data including a list of product orders, its corresponding information on sequential processes are acquired, assigning priorities to the individual product orders and creating a process table; and (b) (i) transmitting the process table to a manager's and workers' terminals, (ii) changing, if information on selecting a specific product order is acquired from the manager's terminal, the color of a specific process area to be a first color, (iii) changing, if information on selecting the specific process area is acquired from a terminal of a specific worker, the color of the specific process area to a second one, and (iv) changing, if information on selecting the specific process area is acquired from the specific worker's terminal, the color of the specific process area to a third one.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Inventor: Matt J S. Kho
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Patent number: 11288261Abstract: A method may include determining, based on a data analysis plan that includes analytical operations performed on at least a portion of the dataset being ingested into and/or stored in the polystore, an optimization for the ingestion of the dataset into the polystore. The ingestion of the dataset includes storing, in a first database management system and/or a second database management system in the polystore, the portion of the dataset. The analysis plan may be modified, based on the optimization, by adding, removing, and/or reordering one or more analytical operations included in the data analysis plan. During the ingestion of the dataset, the optimization may be applied by routing, based on the optimization, the portion of the dataset for storage at the first database management system and/or the second database management system. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Amarnath Gupta, Subhasis Dasgupta, Margaret Roberts
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Patent number: 11276021Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for detecting business anomalies. Enterprise data as well as compliance rules (e.g., business operational rules) are analyzed to identify entities and concepts to be placed in an ontology. The identified entities and concepts are represented as multi-dimensional vectors. The updates, movements and access to the enterprise data and compliance rules are tracked to determine parameters, such as information velocity, associated with at least some of the elements of the multi-dimensional vectors. The meaning from the enterprise data as well as from the data parameters is discerned. The discerned enterprise data and discerned data parameters are compared with the historical and/or projected utilization of the discerned enterprise data and discerned data parameters to identify any differences. Statistical analysis is then applied based on the enterprise data and the identified differences to generate a value corresponding to a prediction of a business anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven B. Adler, Hyman D. Chantz
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Patent number: 11270359Abstract: There is provided a program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method which are able to represent a demand-supply balance that reflects a characteristic of a transaction object, more accurately. The program causes a computer to function as a control unit that, on the basis of inputted transaction orders, controls a display regarding a distribution of the transaction orders in a transaction market, where the transaction orders include a provision order inputted by a provider who desires to provide a transaction object and a reception order inputted by a receiver who desires to receive the transaction object, and the control unit dynamically controls the display regarding the distribution on the basis of two or more elements including a desired transaction price related to each of the provision order and the reception order and including at least one or more characteristics of the transaction object.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Sasaki
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Patent number: 11257012Abstract: A device may receive data associated with a benefit manager organization. The data may relate to a performance of the benefit manager organization and hardware resources associated with the benefit manager organization. The device may process the data using a technique after receiving the data. The device may map the data to a benefit manager operating model based on processing the data. The benefit manager operating model may identify a functional area or a sub-area of another benefit manager organization. The device may perform an analysis of the data based on mapping the data to the benefit manager operating model. The device may identify a deficiency related to the performance of the benefit manager organization. The device may perform an action to positively impact the performance of the benefit manager organization based on identifying the deficiency. The action may reduce the deficiency.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Dinesh Malhotra, Milind Pawar, Peter Westcott, Barbara Slagg
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Patent number: 11256745Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for generating a contract form using a contract library data structure. A computing device may receive, from a user, a contract form request comprising a set of contract classifiers. The computing device may access a contract library data structure and executes a filter routine to traverse the contract library data structure to identify at least one contract term associated with one or more filter tags corresponding to the set of contract classifiers. The filter routine may return an indication of the first contract term associated with the first node. The computing device may generate a contract form comprising the first contract term.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Nithya Rajagopalan, Sunil Gornalle, Abhishek Chaturvedi, Gurudayal Khosla, Prasad Karani, Surendranath Gopinathan, Panish Ramakrishna
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Patent number: 11244268Abstract: According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided, comprising providing, via a request module, a user interface, wherein the user interface displays at least one request and a status for each request; receiving selection of one of the displayed requests at a unification layer, via the user interface, wherein the unification layer is provided by the request module; accessing, by the request module, at least one of a first application and a second application based on the received selection; and generating a visualization displayed on the user interface, wherein the visualization includes the at least one request and status for each request, the selected at least one request and a request indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Krishnan Harihara Subramanian, Dinesh Bhandarkar, Catherine Sneha P, Jerin James, Nagashree S
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Patent number: 11238395Abstract: In an apparatus for evaluating reliability of a nuclear power plant operator, an expected task finishing time for each task of the operator is calculated based on input data for reliability evaluation of the operator to determine a task completion time for each task of the operator based on the calculated expected task finishing time and the input data. An initial time for the tasks is determined based on the input data and the task completion time for a current task. A total execution time of the operator is calculated based on the determined task completion time and initial time. An available time allowed for the operator to complete the tasks is calculated based on a predetermined allowed time and the determined initial time. A task failure probability is obtained from the difference between the calculated total execution time and the calculated available time based on probability distribution information.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Yochan Kim, Jaewhan Kim
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Patent number: 11232126Abstract: Implementations include providing, by a deploy tool, clone data components in the first database system, each clone data component being a copy of a data component, defining, by the deploy tool, a source-side green access schema in the first database system, the green access schema providing views to the clone data components, providing, by a replication system and based on statements received from the deploy tool, consumer-side clone data components in the first database system, each consumer-side clone data component being a copy of a respective data component, defining, by a replication system and based on statements received from the deploy tool, a consumer-side green access schema in the first database system, the green access schema providing views to the source-side clone data components, and, during execution of the upgrade, replicating, by a handler of the replication system, data from at least one source-side data component to a consumer-side component.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Steffen Meissner, Volker Driesen, Tobias Karpstein, Martin Mayer, Thomas Saelinger, Thomas Ullrich
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Patent number: 11232526Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques that facilitate a Governance Regulatory Compliance (C-GRC) controller that is configured to dynamically monitor and collate data associated with an agricultural operation for demonstrating compliance with an agricultural compliance plan. The C-GRC controller may act as a centralized server that dynamically monitors the cycle of agricultural activities for an agricultural product and in doing so, automates the governance of an agricultural compliance plan across a plurality of entities that are each responsible for one or more agricultural activities. The C-GRC controller may detect independent interactions conducted between a complying entity and a participating entity. These interactions may be intended to gather information relating to compliance of a pending task. In doing so, the C-GRC controller may update an agricultural compliance plan accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: iUNU, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Charles King, Adam Greenberg
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Patent number: 11223549Abstract: Embodiments manage use of different network connections for data transfer in view of priority information and a data usage plan identifying threshold limits associated with the different network connections. A computing device receives data transfer requests from applications executing on the computing device. The data transfer requests have priority information associated therewith. The computing device compares the priority information with available network connections. One or more of the data transfer requests are selected for initiation based on the comparison and on the threshold limits.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gil Zalmanovitch, Gregory James Scott, Shai Guday, Alec Garvin Kwok, Yue Jiang, Kenneth Vincent Ma