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20110046997 | Systems, Program Product, and Methods For Synthesizing Heat Exchanger Networks That Exhibit Life-Cycle Switchability and Flexibility Under All Possible Combinations of Process Variations - A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps/operations to synthesize multiple heat exchanger network designs according to different process variations schemes, analyze the impact of process variations on each heat exchanger network, and identify which design provides a more optimal heat exchanger network design and which process variation scheme represents a more optimal flexibility index. | 02-24-2011 |
20110087509 | System and Method for An Adaptive Scheduling System Architecture - The disclosed embodiments describe an automatic, adaptive system and method for efficiently and effectively scheduling advertising spots in commercial break locations across various networks, zones, channels, dates, times, and specific products, for example. The disclosed embodiments make use of fixed and relative factors, that may be user-defined, which assign a “cost” to one or more particular breaks which thereby allow for quick and accurate scheduling of spots. The “costs” may represent a value, or desirability, of a break for the advertiser and may be a function of both the fixed and relative factors. The fixed and relative factors may be configurable and may change for different advertising clients, different contract lines, different networks, different spot placement, etc. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093304 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING BASED ON A HIERARCHICAL ARRANGEMENT OF COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING ENGINES - A system comprising a plurality of complex event processing engines including a first complex event processing engine set at a first tier and a second complex event processing engine set at a second tier. Each of the plurality of complex event processing engines executes on at least one hardware computer processor. The plurality of complex event processing engines are configured such that at least one complex event processing engine in the second set communicates with only some of the other complex event processing engines in the second set. The plurality of complex event processing engines further are configured such that at least one complex event processing engine in the first set communicates with each complex event processing engine in the second set. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099040 | MOBILE TAXI DISPATCH SYSTEM - A mobile taxi dispatch system may receive a request for a taxi vehicle from a user, select one or more taxi vehicles to contact in response to receiving the request and send the request to the selected one or more taxi vehicles. The mobile taxi dispatch system may further receive acceptances of the request from at least one of selected one or more taxi vehicles, select a particular taxi vehicle from the at least one of the selected one or more taxi vehicles that accepted the request. The selecting may be based on one or more criteria. The mobile taxi dispatch system may also send a confirmation to the user and to the particular taxi. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106576 | EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - In a management method for equipment in multiple locations using a device, an application form is generated according to reservation of an equipment item if the item is available, and it is determined whether another reservation has been made for the equipment item after the schedule time, assigns the equipment item accordingly, locates the equipment item, and issues notification of the status information and location of the equipment on an electronic device. | 05-05-2011 |
20110125539 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-RESOURCE SCHEDULING - Systems and methods are provided to schedule clinical tasks involving multiple sub-tasks and multiple resources in a clinical enterprise. An example method includes identifying a slot for a task defined by a task duration and one or more resources, the task including a plurality of sub-tasks, each sub-task having a sub-task duration utilizing one or more of the one or more resources, wherein each sub-task to be performed consecutively based on resource constraints; selecting a time slot for the task based on resource availability, the plurality of sub-tasks in the task, and a duration associated with each sub-task, wherein resource availability information is obtained from a clinical information system, and wherein each resource is scheduled only for one or more sub-tasks in which the resource is involved; displaying the schedule including the task and the plurality of sub-tasks; and facilitating access to view and modify the schedule. | 05-26-2011 |
20110137694 | Planning Device and Method for Planning a Technical Installation - A planning device for planning a technical installation is provided. The technical installation is constituted of mechanical components and electrical components, every component having a component functionality. Component sets constituted of functionally different components are selected from a library, the component functionalities being shown in the library subdivided into different degrees of detail and a component set having a desired degree of detail being selectable from the library. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137695 | Market Expansion through Optimized Resource Placement - A company's ability to expand its market presence by delivering value to emerging and immature markets is influenced by its ability to develop a rich and differentiated value net within these emerging markets. Techniques are disclosed for making resource placement decisions in an objective manner, using results from a value chain analysis. Geographies or locations that are candidates for the resource placement are analyzed in terms of a set of criteria which, in preferred embodiments, are directed toward identifying strengths and weaknesses of each location as part of an overall value chain. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145030 | Method and system for determining optimal or near optimal product quantities - A computer-implemented method for determining optimal or near-optimal product order quantities for receipt on one or more predetermined days is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining inventory data for each of a range of products over a predetermined time period including the one or more predetermined days; generating and storing a representation of an Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) curve for each of the range of products using the inventory data, each of the EOQ curve representations generated specifically for one of said one or more predetermined days and each comprising a plurality of data sets each including a product order quantity and an associated cost; and iteratively: selecting products from the range of products and determining potential order quantities for each of the selected products; for each selected product, retrieving the cost associated with the determined potential order quantity of the product from a respective stored EOQ curve representation; determining a total cost for ordering the selected products in the potential order quantities; and storing the currently selected set of products and associated potential order quantities if the total cost is less than a previously determined total cost. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153378 | Methods and Systems for Managing Customer Contacts in a Contact Center - A computer-implemented method of reserving resources for a customer contacting a contact center. The method includes the steps of identifying the customer associated with a contact received at the contact center, accessing a customer profile to determine at least one non-agent resource to be associated with the contact based on the customer profile; reserving the non-agent resource for the contact; and allocating the non-agent resource to the contact. | 06-23-2011 |
20110173038 | CONSTRAINT-CONSCIOUS OPTIMAL SCHEDULING FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES - Systems and methods are disclosed to schedule jobs in a cloud computing infrastructure by receiving in a first queue jobs with deadlines or constraints specified in a hard service level agreement (SLA); receiving in a second queue jobs with a penalty cost metric specified in a soft SLA; and minimizing both constraint violation count and total penalty cost in the cloud computing infrastructure by identifying jobs with deadlines in the first queue and delaying jobs in the first queue within a predetermined slack range in favor of jobs in the second queue to improve the penalty cost metric. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173039 | GUI INTERFACE FOR A ROAD MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM - A display device for displaying a graphical user interface is disclosed. The graphical user interface includes a first window configured to display a road maintenance map of a mine road network, and one or more links configured to access a second window. The second window is configured to facilitate selection of one or more data files containing data associated with the mine road network. The graphical user interface also includes one or more links configured to access a third window. The third window is configured to access to one or more analysis tools configured to analyze the data. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178832 | PREREQUISITE-DRIVEN MEETING SCHEDULING - A method, system and computer program product for prerequisite-driven meeting scheduling are provided. The method includes defining prerequisites to be met prior to confirming scheduling of a meeting, and defining a threshold to confirm scheduling of the meeting based on prerequisites completed. The method also includes tracking the prerequisites completed prior to the meeting, the tracking performed by tracking logic of a scheduling tool executing on a host system. The method further includes confirming that the meeting will be held as scheduled in response to determining that the prerequisites completed meet the threshold. The method additionally includes rescheduling the meeting in response to determining that the prerequisites completed are below the threshold, the rescheduling performed by the scheduling tool executing on the host system. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178833 | DEVELOPING AN OPTIMAL LONG TERM ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY RESOURCE PLAN UNDER A CARBON DIOXIDE REGULATORY REGIME - There are provided a method and system for optimizing of a long-term electricity resource plan. The system obtains a capital costs component value including capital costs for emission abatement retrofits at an existing power plant and a new power plant over a period of time. The system obtains a fuel costs component value including the sum of fuel utilization of all generating units in the existing power plant and new power plant over the period of time. The system obtains an emission costs component value including emission allowance costs and emission violation costs in the period of time. The system adds the capital costs component value, the fuel costs component value and the emission costs component value to compute a net present value that meets emission constraints. | 07-21-2011 |
20110191133 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SALES MANAGEMENT - A method and system is provided to manage sales and contracts effectively. The system includes analysis module to analyze sourceability of a component of the functional unit, a first processing to identify work requisites, a segmenting module to atomize work requisites, and a second processing module to group the atomized work requisite, and allocate the grouped work requisite to a resource. Additionally, a module is adapted to parameterize the component of the functional unit. The present system and method assist in improving effectiveness and efficiency of business environment of the enterprise. | 08-04-2011 |
20110202378 | ENTERPRISE RENDERING PLATFORM - According to one non-limiting embodiment, an enterprise rendering platform for providing ERP functionality for a computing device having a web browser includes at least one ERP system storing enterprise data on at least one server. A rendering workbench provides a GUI-based editor in which metadata for at least one selected ERP function is presented to a view setup user, and in which a view for executing the ERP function may be created with no coding. A repository stores the view and the metadata for the view. The gateway invokes an execution engine to execute the ERP function to retrieve ERP data and renders the view to include the retrieved ERP data. The rendered view is sent to a remote user for display in a web browser on a computing device | 08-18-2011 |
20110208555 | PRODUCTION PLAN MAKING PROGRAM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A production plan enabling suppression of occurrence of excess stock is made. A shipping request representing the requested amount of shipping for each shipping request week is received. Among the shipping weeks of the shipping requests, the furthest future shipping request week is handled as the furthest future shipping week, and the amounts of shipping of shipping weeks near the present time are determined sequentially from the amount of shipping of the furthest future shipping week. For the shipping requests after the shipping week n for which the amount of shipping is to be set, the order setting time which is the time of period till the products are delivered to the shipping destination is determined. The allocation order, 1, 2, . . . is determined for each of the shipping requests of the unset shipping so that the longer the order setting time is, the higher the order of allocating shipping request is. In the allocation order, the requested amounts of shipping for the shipping requests of the unset shipping are allocated sequentially to the shipping week n until the amounts of shipping reach the production capability ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110213633 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COST ESTIMATION BASED ON TEMPLATES - Systems and methods are disclosed for generating cost estimates. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for producing a cost estimate, comprising selecting at least one cost object included in the cost estimate. The cost object requires evaluation of a first function stored in a cost estimation system. The selected cost object is described by a mapping between the first function and a second function in a costing platform. The mapping indicates a matching of local and remote fieldnames that describe a logical storage location of the cost object within the cost estimation system and the costing platform, respectively. The method further comprises determining whether the selected cost object requires evaluation of the second function, receiving cost data for the cost object from the costing platform, calculating the cost estimate using the cost data and the first function and producing the cost estimate via a user interface. | 09-01-2011 |
20110231215 | OPTIMIZATION OF A RESOURCE MATCHING MODEL BY MAPPING A MODEL TO A BIPARTITE GRAPH - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a mechanism for optimizing a resource matching model. In particular, a mechanism is provided to access, in a resource matching system, input data for a mixed integer programming (MIP) model, which may include resource data describing resources and demand data describing corresponding demand instances. Mechanisms are also provided to convert the MIP model to a binary integer programming (BIP) model by redefining the input data to unary data and to map the BIP model to a bipartite graph using the unary data. The resulting bipartite graph may include a number of nodes including a first set corresponding to the resources and a second set corresponding to the demand instances, and a number of edges corresponding to decision variables of the BIP model, each edge representing a potential allocation of a resource in the first set to a demand instance in the second set. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EVENT REMINDERS - A system and method are provided for obtaining data that could affect event details, such that this data can be used to generate alerts that are sent early enough to give the user time to reach the event, predict lateness, arrange replacements/delegates, reschedule, cancel meetings in advance, etc. By more intelligently providing reminders to the user, the above-described unforeseen circumstances can be dealt with. In some embodiments, an aggregation of various external data sources as well as internal data can be used to better predict when a user should be reminded of the time for their event, determine and advise whether they may be late regardless, and/or enable the user to arrange a delegate or replacement or to reschedule or cancel the event. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231217 | INTEGRATION OF REAL-TIME FIELD DATA IN CHEMICAL DELIVERY VEHICLE OPERATIONS - A method and system for integration of real-time field data in chemical delivery vehicle operations is disclosed. Initially, information for a plurality of regions designated for chemical delivery is received at a command center, each of the plurality of regions having a defined boundary. Real-time and forecast environmental conditions are utilized in conjunction with prior and real-time field data to rank each of the plurality of regions. One or more chemical delivery vehicles are automatically selected and dispatched to one or more of the plurality of regions. When the one or more chemical delivery vehicles are within the defined boundary of one of the plurality of regions for chemical delivery, region specific chemical delivery procedures incorporating real-time environmental conditions are automatically calculated and initiated. | 09-22-2011 |
20110246250 | SIMULATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN PLANS USING DATA MODEL - A new computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system is provided which can allow a user to make changes to the planning data, generate a new plan, generate a new solution based on the generated plan, or perform an alternative scenario analysis on the generated plan. In one embodiment, a new model for representing planning data, identified as a “base-plus-delta” model is provided. In another embodiment, a new web service implementation for a planning engine is provided. In another embodiment, a new technique for copying plans to perform an alternative scenario analysis on the copied plan is provided. In another embodiment, an automatic propagation of user changes from a database directly to an in-memory object is provided. In certain embodiments of the invention, two or more of the described features can be combined to provide an interactive supply chain planning system. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246251 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT-BASED INVESTIGATION SERVICES - An approach is provided for content-based investigation services. Event data corresponding to content satisfying a predetermined criterion is received. A plurality of prioritization parameters relating to the content are retrieved. One or more of the prioritization parameters are selected based on the received event data. A prioritization score for the event data is generated using the selected parameters. Inspection of the event data is scheduled according to the prioritization score. A determination is selectively made whether the content is in violation according to the inspection. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246252 | VEHICLE CHARGING ALLOCATION MANAGING SERVER AND VEHICLE CHARGING ALLOCATION MANAGING SYSTEM - A vehicle charging allocation managing system containing plural charging stations each having a battery charger to charge a vehicle, a charging station managing server for managing the charging stations, and a vehicle charging allocation managing server that is connected to the charging station managing server through a communication network, and instructs vehicle allocation to allocate each of the vehicles to an appropriate one of the charging stations for charging. The vehicle charging allocation managing server has a controller for setting a vehicle charging allocation schedule for specifying a charging station and a charting time zone to charge each of the vehicles on the basis of a battery residual capacity and a battery capacity consumption plan, thereby performing vehicle allocation for charging. | 10-06-2011 |
20110251866 | DYNAMICALLY POOLING UNUSED CAPACITIES ACROSS AN ORGANIZATION TO EXECUTE ATOMIC TASKS - In the context of a work container which includes a set of atomic tasks to be executed in some order, along with a specification of the role/skill needed for each task, the estimated effort and due date, methods and arrangements for pooling unutilized capacities of multiple resources whenever possible, and making adjustments to the estimated effort to take transactional costs into account. More particularly, preferred embodiments of the invention operate on a principle that if resources do not individually have the available bandwidth needed to execute and complete an atomic task during a given period then, collectively, the time available on their calendars, when pooled together and aggregated in sequence, may well be more than sufficient for the task, even after making adjustments to account for transaction costs. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258009 | OPTION FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING ON DEMAND SERVICE OFFERINGS - A method of and system for managing on-demand service offerings in a service delivery chain. The method comprises the steps of a service provider announcing upfront capacity pricing, an on-demand premium structure, and an on-demand exercise structure; a service distributor committing to upfront capacity and to units of on-demand options; and the service provider provisioning a number of resources to the collection of service distributors. Preferably, the upfront capacity pricing includes three components. A first component is a price structure for capacity or resources to be purchased for immediate use, a second component is an on-demand premium structure, and a third component is an on-demand usage fee structure. | 10-20-2011 |
20110270640 | System and method for actively managing client appointments - The present invention provides client appointment scheduling systems and methods that monitors appointments and notifies clients if there is an advance or delay in the actual time the appointment will occur. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270641 | Retail Location Services - Methods of preparing retail establishments are disclosed. An area for a retail location may be chosen and an individual may be selected to manage the retail location. The selection of the area may include an evaluation of geographical factors. From the area, a retail location may be selected based on an aggregate score of a set of characteristics of the retail location. The individual may remotely select the layout and furnishing of the retail location and may remotely monitor the progress of the preparation of the retail location. In an embodiment, the individual may be prepared to manage the retail location at a centralized location that is distinct from the area where the retail location is located. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276355 | Method and system for informed decision making to locate a workforce - The present invention generally relates to a computer-implemented method and system for informed decision making when a user decides between and amongst geographic areas having a suitable workforce. More specifically, the present invention applies user selections that send SQL statements that extract and index data on workforce demographics for a range of areas over a Network. Data is returned to the user's computer as a virtual table and is a mixture of critical or informational factors representing all areas returning data. Areas are ranked according to the value of an area's lowest returned index number, and data is displayed where each critical factor's lowest index value and its corresponding low value are extracted and used as ranking factors for all area's returning data. Areas are screened by acceptable values for critical factors. Area utilities are created by weighting critical factors based on user needs when selecting a workforce. | 11-10-2011 |
20110288895 | Systems and Methods for Facility Optimization - Systems and methods create a digital geospatial display of facilities to aid facility management. In one implementation, a system retrieves data for a plurality of facilities from various databases, including, but not limited to, map data for creating maps, location data for the facilities, and resource data for the facilities. The system marks the locations of the facilities on a map display using a facility icon. The facility icon comprises one or more resource status areas, each of which convey information about the state of a resource at a facility. The system calculates the resource status areas of the facility icons based at least on the resource data. | 11-24-2011 |
20110288896 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING PACKAGES - Methods include, prior to arrival of the incoming shipment of packages at a distribution facility, automatically determining an unload score for the incoming shipment based on electronic shipment data, the electronic shipment data including and the unload score being at least partially based on at least two or more of: a total number of packages in the incoming shipment, a number of products in the incoming shipment, and a conveyability of the packages in the incoming shipment, automatically comparing the unload score to a threshold unload score, sending instruction for directing a truck carrying the incoming shipment to at least one automated or manual receiving door when the unload score is at least equal to the threshold unload score, and sending instruction directing a truck carrying the incoming shipment to the other of the automated or manual receiving door when the unload score is less than the threshold unload score. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295634 | System and Method for Dynamic Optimal Resource Constraint Mapping in Business Process Models - Electronic communication has made it increasingly easier for large companies, such as those with thousands, even tens of thousands, of workers and/or consultants, to maintain steady streams of workflow across scattered offices and locations. In such a context, there is broadly contemplated herein business process modelling comprising the receipt of multiple business process models and resource constraints for each of the models. The models and constraints are then consolidated to more fully optimize business process modelling. Additional resource constraints governing goals of the business unit or organization are also received in embodiments of the invention, as well as resource registry information, (e.g., LDAP information) in addition to resource information such as resource availability and cost, etc. In embodiments of the invention, historical resource-to-task mapping is also assimilated as well as performance characteristics of resources. In other embodiments, dynamic changes to resource information are also considered for resource assignment. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING POWER SOURCES AND JOBS IN AN INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEM - Methods and systems for managing energy sources and energy consumers in an integrated system are provided. Certain subject matter presented herein relates to automatically scheduling jobs and their sub-tasks to maximize profit by comparing power source configurations and determining the best job schedule for the power source configurations. This system broadly involves two sub-problems: determining the best power source configuration and determining the best job schedule for the given power source configuration. | 12-01-2011 |
20110301990 | PRICING AND SERVICE SUSTAINABILITY APPLICATION - Provided herein is a financial management application and associated services specific to the parks and recreation sector. The application and/or services will allow organizations to more efficiently and accurately create and manage their budgets. Aspects of the inventions include providing a comprehensive cost recovery software tool specifically designed for the needs of a particular organization. The systems and method (i.e., utilities) provided herein are primarily designed for use by government and non-profit organizations in assessing the direct and indirect costs of operations for the services they provide to communities. | 12-08-2011 |
20110313801 | DISTRIBUTING A TASK TO MULTIPLE WORKERS OVER A NETWORK FOR COMPLETION WHILE PROVIDING QUALITY CONTROL - Systems and methods of crowd sourcing by distributing a task over a network to multiple workers for completion while providing quality control are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of identifying an attribute of the task, the task including multiple unit jobs, determining target accuracy in completion of the task by the multiple workers, computing a number of results to be collected for a unit job of the task based on the target accuracy, setting a wage amount that is offered to a worker for completing a unit job of the task based on the attribute and the target accuracy, and/or collecting and aggregating statistics of the workers completing the select unit jobs for quality control. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320229 | AGRONOMIC OPTIMIZATION BASED ON STATISTICAL MODELS - Generating a crop prescription using a computer coupled to a memory area includes receiving yield data for a plurality of crop population trials, wherein each trial is varied by at least one of a hybrid line, a population density, and a row spacing. At least one statistical model is generated based on the yield data to obtain a plurality of coefficients, which are stored in the memory area. A predicted yield for at least one selected hybrid line is determined based on the coefficients and a selected row spacing, and a predicted profit is determined for the at least one selected hybrid line based on the coefficients and the selected row spacing. A crop prescription is presented that includes a recommended hybrid line and population density for use by a grower. | 12-29-2011 |
20120004939 | SPECIFIED BUSINESS FUNCTION SCORING TOOL - A system for determining a level of optimality for countries in which to perform a specified business function includes a data storage unit, a mapping engine and a mapping generator. The data storage stores a composite business environment index, a composite input resources index, and an innovation index. The mapping engine receives the specified business function and input factors related to the specified business function and selects at least two of the composite business environment index, the composite input resources index, and the innovation index based on the input factors. The matrix generator determines the level of optimality indicating a measure of success in achieving the specified business function for each of the countries based on scores in the at least two selected indices. | 01-05-2012 |
20120010917 | ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO MONITOR AND CONTROL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS - A method for facilitating greenhouse gas emission control in an enterprise is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such a method may include taking an inventory of GHG-producing assets of an enterprise and monitoring the GHG emission rate for each of the GHG-producing assets. If the GHG emission rate for a specific GHG-producing asset exceeds a specified rate limit, or if the growth rate of the GHG emission rate for the specific GHG-producing asset exceeds a specified growth rate limit, maintenance may be automatically scheduled for that GHG-producing asset. | 01-12-2012 |
20120022903 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ARTISTIC EVENT PLANS - A system and method for planning an artistic event may include receiving artistic requirements data inclusive of physical resources for an artist to perform the art form. A date range may be received for the artistic event to be performed. Geographic information defining a geographic region in which the artistic event is to be conducted may be received. Desired audience information of a desired audience to attend the artistic event may be received. Budgetary information for marketing and conducting the artistic event may be received. Based on the artistic requirements data, date range, geographic information, desired audience information, and budgetary information, an artistic event plan may be generated that includes a list of action items for conducting the event, deadlines to perform the action items, and estimated costs for the action items. | 01-26-2012 |
20120029959 | METHOD OF EXTENDING ACTIVITY FLOATS IN THE CRITICAL PATH METHOD - The method of extending floats in the critical path method (CPM) method allows for extending the project duration while keeping the networking basic parameter of total float intact. The method allows for rescheduling of the start times of some activities so that the resource requirements never exceed the specified resource limit. The extendable network transforms the process of seeking an extended schedule that fulfils resource constraints from searching in a boundless solution space to searching in a well-defined and definite solution space. The definite searching space harnesses for the mathematical formulation of the optimization techniques, i.e., integer programming, which provides the optimum solution as a schedule that fulfills the resource constraint and yet minimizes the project duration. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029960 | Method and system for predicting resource allocation in cohort time - The system and method of the subject invention operates to allow one to make predictions, based on Populations having retrospective and prospective patterns, for similar Populations where only retrospective information is available and to allow one to identify variables that may significantly affect the pattern for UOA's in the Populations. The system and method of the subject invention also operates to create an Output Expression that allows one to determine the significance of such variables and their effect on a Population thereby allowing one to determine the specific variables that will be adjusted in an intervention in an attempt to reduce the use of resources and allowing one to determine the effectiveness of the intervention. | 02-02-2012 |
20120035969 | Context-Conditional Recommendation Receipt System - A computer-implemented context-conditional recommendation receipt method, system, and device conditionally enable receipt of recommendations that are based on inferred preferences, given a sufficient contextual basis. The contextual basis may include factors such as location, supplier contextual information, and/or product attributes. The recommendations may be generated by another processor-based device, and may comprise one or more products and a corresponding price. Information as to why the recommendation was delivered to a recommendation recipient may be provided to the recommendation recipient. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035970 | Context-Conditional Recommendation Delivery System - A computer-implemented context-conditional recommendation delivery method, system, and device conditionally enable delivery of recommendations that are based on inferred preferences, given a sufficient contextual basis. The contextual basis may include factors such as location, customer contextual information and/or supplier contextual information. The recommendations may be delivered to another processor-based device, and may comprise one or more products and a corresponding price. Information as to why the recommendation was delivered to a recommendation recipient may be provided to the recommendation recipient. | 02-09-2012 |
20120046980 | CONSOLIDATING PROCESSES FOR MULTIPLE VARIATIONS - Harmonizing business process tasks comprehends comparing descriptors associated with each of a plurality of business process tasks in response to a process variation input and identifying tasks as a candidate task pair for consolidation. Input and output attributes of the candidate pair tasks are compared and consolidation confirmed if the compared input and output attributes are similar. Consolidating the confirmed candidate pair tasks includes merging the confirmed candidate pair into a new merged task or replacing one with the other, and an output from the consolidated candidate pair is generated as a common harmonized output for the first and second tasks. Identifying the candidate task pairs for consolidation may be a function of similarity of task descriptors, of input/output business process relationships to other candidate task pairs, and also of both. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046981 | FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system comprises a materials handling vehicle, an information linking device and a wireless transceiver. The materials handling vehicle comprises a controller area network (CAN) bus and at least one native control module coupled to the CAN bus that generates and sends the vehicle-related data over the CAN bus. The information linking device comprises a CAN-bus interface coupled to the CAN bus of the materials handling vehicle, which extracts the vehicle-related data off of the CAN bus, a memory device coupled to the CAN-bus interface, which stores the vehicle-related data extracted off of the CAN bus and an output interface coupled to the memory device. The wireless transceiver is coupled to the output interface of the information linking device. The wireless transceiver wirelessly sends and receives across a wireless network environment. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046982 | FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method of implementing an automated diagnostic checklist for materials handling vehicles comprises detecting, by a processor on a materials handling vehicle, an error in operation of the materials handling vehicle and initiating an automated diagnostic check of a component of the materials handling vehicle in response to detecting the error. The method also comprises obtaining error event information by the processor, from across a vehicle controller area network (CAN) bus, where the obtained error event information is related to at least one condition of the materials handling vehicle and wirelessly transmitting the obtained error event information to a server having software thereon for specifically monitoring materials handling vehicles. The error in operation of the materials handling vehicle is repaired in response to receiving the wirelessly transmitted error event information obtained automatically from the CAN bus. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046983 | PLANNING SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION - A planning system ( | 02-23-2012 |
20120059681 | SERVICE CALL-AHEAD SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for managing service orders are disclosed herein. A computer implemented method, according to some implementations of the present disclosure, includes storing an estimated travel time (e.g., an estimated period of time for a servicer to travel from a current location to a service destination associated with a customer who is to receive a service from the servicer) and estimated time of arrival (ETA) (e.g., an estimated time of day when the servicer is expected to arrive at the service destination). The computer implemented method also includes calculating a call-ahead time for notifying the customer of the servicer's ETA at the service destination. The calculation of the call-ahead time may be based in part on a predetermined advanced-warning time period (e.g., a predetermined amount of time before the ETA for providing an advanced warning of the ETA) and the ETA. | 03-08-2012 |
20120078671 | Intelligent Automated Dispatch And Mobile Resources Management System - A method, system, and computer program product for automated operation of a vehicle fleet. A request to dispatch a vehicle to a particular location is automatically received. The location of a vehicle to be dispatched is automatically determined. Instructions are automatically sent to that vehicle to proceed to the particular location. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078672 | Efficient Automated Ride Sharing System - An automated method for establishing ride-sharing routes is disclosed. A plurality of requests for transportation between a plurality of start locations and a plurality of end locations is received. A route is determined that includes the plurality of start locations and plurality of end locations as a function of at least one of the following criteria: a service level agreement with at least one transportation requestor, real time traffic conditions real time weather conditions, and distance between the first start location and the last end location. A mobile resource is selected that satisfies at least one of the criteria relied on to determine the route. The determined route information is transmitted to the selected mobile resource. Confirmation of the transmitted route information is received from the selected mobile resource. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A WORK FLOW MANAGEMENT APPLICATION SUITE FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - Systems and methods for a work flow management application suite for mobile communications devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for providing work flow management from a mobile communication unit comprises: initiating a login from the mobile communication unit to a back-end database by transmitting a unique device ID for the mobile communication unit, a username and password to a supervisory server; when the logon is granted, retrieving project information records from the back-end database for one or more projects assigned to the username; and displaying on the mobile communication unit a schedule of project information for the one or more projects based on the project information records, wherein the project information includes a Method of Procedure (MOP) status for each of the one or more projects, the MOP status indicating whether a MOP to perform a work task is currently valid. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089430 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPERATION DEVICE, OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, METHOD OF CALCULATING COMPLETION PROBABILITY OF OPERATION TASK, AND PROGRAM - A distributed processing system includes a plurality of operation devices that perform an operation using power derived from natural energy; and an operation control device that includes a task assigning unit that assigns the same operation task to the plurality of operation devices, and an operation control unit that controls the plurality of operation devices to perform the operation task assigned by the task assigning unit. | 04-12-2012 |
20120101863 | MACHINE-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for using information related to the service history of a power-train component. The method may include using a machine-management system with at least one information processor to acquire information related to loads experienced by the power-train component during a first period, the first period occurring before a disassembly procedure involving disassembly of the power-train component from a power train. The method may also include employing the machine-management system and the acquired information related to loads experienced by the power-train component during the first period to perform one or more tasks in connection with use of the power-train component after the disassembly procedure. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101864 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING A COMPUTER-BASED PRODUCT - A technique includes determining a mixture of product-based, automation-based and human-based components of service support to resolve incidents that occur in a computer-based product. Based at least in part on the determined mixture, features are selectively incorporated into the product. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109698 | LOGICAL CHART OF ACCOUNTS WITH HASHING - A Chart of accounts (COA) is maintained as a logical set of constraints, criteria, and relationships and does not persist any of the valid combinations until a first time a particular combination is used. When any business logic or properties need to be set or referenced on an individual combination, that combination is physically persisted “just in time” and then becomes a physical combination that may be used going forward. A hash value is associated with each combination such that lookups are simplified. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109699 | BUSINESS RISK SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A system and program captured in a computing device for managing the risk of a new business opportunity. The system and computing device accept data and creates plans to optimally reduce the risk of new business opportunities and then uses the resulting data to create management reports that can be both viewed or integrated into existing management reporting systems. A training module can be integrated with the system. The entire system can be operated via the cloud so as to allow users to interface the system remotely. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116828 | PROMOTIONS AND ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A system for promoting a business includes a business interface module and a consumer interface module. The business interface module receives information from businesses identifying information to be conveyed to consumers, such as special offers available from the businesses. The consumer interface module conveys the information to the consumers. | 05-10-2012 |
20120123817 | AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT USING BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS - A method and system for customizing agriculture management using biological signals and making decisions according to pre-programmed algorithms, including decisions related to irrigation, prediction of future yield, characterization of plant varieties, and administration of topical applications. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130758 | Content Hierarchy - Systems and methods for automating and increasing the efficiency of business processes using a hierarchical content structure. In one embodiment, A method comprises providing a plurality of business information items, defining a hierarchical content structure of the business information items, associating access rights for a first role with a first one of the business information items, and automatically enabling access by positions associated with the first role to the first one of the business information items and business information items below the first one of the business information items in the hierarchical content structure. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK OPTIMIZED, SPATIALLY SENSITIVE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT - A preventative maintenance method and a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters such as failure history combined with causative factors like weather and independent external risk factors such as vandalism and risk of flooding. The present invention may further have a system for estimating the risk of failure of an asset based on intrinsic parameters, such as failure history combined with causative factors such as weather and independent external risk factors like vandalism and risk of flooding having a location based asset/service failure risk estimator, an external risk estimates database for feeding and an integrated failure risk database, the external risk estimates database feeding the integrated failure risk database. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130760 | ADJUSTING A POINT PREDICTION THAT IS PART OF THE LONG-TERM PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE BASED FORECAST - Illustrated is a system and method for modeling and predicting call center service calls to plan staffing needs based upon historical call center volume data and product life cycle data for the product being serviced by the call center. It includes identifying adjusted historical monthly call volume data. Additionally, the system and method includes transforming the adjusted historical monthly call volume data, using a forecasting algorithm, into a long-term trend and season effect forecast. Further, the system and method includes transforming the adjusted historical monthly call volume data, using a regression algorithm, into a long-term product life cycle based forecast. Additionally, the system and method includes adjusting a point prediction, based on the long-term product life cycle based forecast to create a long-term adjusted monthly forecast, the point prediction adjusted where it exceeds a data point in a bound forecast generated from the long-term trend and season effect forecast. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130761 | VENDOR-CENTRIC ITINERANT CART - This invention proposes a systematic approach to itinerant selling wherein a vendor-centric view is adopted for inventory control, authenticated access to loading and vending of retail items within local regulatory frameworks. By providing precise information of every item, location and time at which the item was sold, and quantity sold, this invention is able to maintain detailed transactional logs, which can be used later for establishing compliance and resolving disputes. By providing means to identify unique carts, assign unique codes for every action performed in the system and addressing operational difficulties such as need to relocate from congested places of business, this invention provides an end-to-end solution for authorized itinerant sales. Additionally, per-item analysis is available by using unique identifiers on the items and enabling location-determination of the cart and its inventory for maintaining appropriate checks and balances in the system. | 05-24-2012 |
20120143643 | Policy Based Automation for a Supply Chain - A method for managing a supply chain includes: identifying a business context for the supply chain; identifying a set of business policy rules for the business context governing the relationship between entities involved in the supply chain; creating use-case description from the set of business policy rules; creating a plurality of executable code modules corresponding to the use-case description; specifying a plurality of name/value pair for modeling the set of business policy rules; provisioning the plurality of application server computers of the computer network system with the executable code modules; and provisioning a central directory database with the plurality of name/value pairs; whereby the computer network system, in response to events in business transactions between at least two entities involved in the supply chain, is operable to dynamically deliver at least one name/value pair from the central directory database and to execute at least one code module. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150576 | INTEGRATING SIMULATION AND FORECASTING MODES IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYSES - An optimization object may include fields storing parameters used by the intelligence system during business intelligence data analysis. One of these fields may include a mode type field to selectively switch between a forecasting mode to extrapolate a value from the data and a simulation mode including an optimization module to calculate a value from the data expected to maximize a particular objective. Stored parameters may include common parameters used in both modes and unique parameters to one of the two modes. Optimization modules may include an option to output a variable number of secondary recommendations in addition to a best recommendation. Parameters and results of models may be saved and later retrieved or compared to identify differences between the parameters and results of compared models. Visual scheduling arrangements may be modified to show certain results from the data analyses. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150577 | MEETING LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - A meeting lifecycle management service manages various aspects of a meeting lifecycle. An indication of a newly scheduled meeting is received at the meeting lifecycle management service, and information related to the meeting is managed, via the meeting lifecycle management service, prior to the meeting, during the meeting, and after the meeting. | 06-14-2012 |
20120166240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BATTERY REMEDIATION IN CONNECTION WITH AN ELECTRIC POWERED MOBIEL THING (EPMT) - The present disclosure provides, among other things, various systems and methods for battery remediation in connection with electric powered mobile things (EPMTs). A representative method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: monitoring electric power capacity (EPC) associated with locomotion of the EPMT; monitoring travel data relating to the EPMT; engaging in a communication session with a remote host computer system (H-CS) based upon the EPC monitoring; requesting assistance of a battery remediation station (BRS) during the communication session; communicating location information relating to the EPMT during the communication session so that the BRS can visit and remediate (recharge, repair, or replace) a battery associated with the EPMT. Upon receiving this information, the H-CS can contact and dispatch the BRS to visit the EPMT. A representative system, among others, comprises an EPMT-CS that is programmed or designed to perform the foregoing steps. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166241 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RFID SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - According to various embodiments, a supply chain management system may provide dynamic information regarding items in manufacturing, storage, inventory, or retail processes by detecting RFID tags embedded on the items. A supply chain management system may also be configured to determine current inventory and regulate what items are stocked and restocked on displays. A split-screen showing detected items and instructions or information pertaining to the items may facilitate accurate and efficient execution of process steps by an employee or user. Supply chain management systems may also provide for re-tagging items with lost or damaged RFID tags and finding items lost from inventory due to lost or damaged RFID tags. Furthermore, a supply chain management system may include RFID tags affixed to point of purchase displays and include information regarding the point of purchase display within a database. | 06-28-2012 |
20120185286 | ONLINE CONTINUAL AUTOMATED PLANNING FRAMEWORK BASED ON TIMELINES - An online planning system and method represents variables in an environment for which a plan is being developed in the form of timelines. The timelines are continually maintained by capturing how different ones of the variables change their values over time. The plan being a consistent plan built and maintained by adding tokens to affected timelines, wherein each token represents different types of actions affecting the variable represented by that timeline. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185287 | FORWARD STATE-SPACE PLANNING FRAMEWORK BASED ON TIMELINES - An on-line forward state-space planning system and method adds actions in the form of tokens, at fixed wall clock times, to partial plans representing a potential final plan. The adding of the actions is repeated until a final sequence of actions satisfies a defined goal, wherein during the planning process all actions in the partial plans and the tokens introduced by the actions are constrained to happen at the fixed wall-clock times. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185288 | PARTIAL-ORDER PLANNING FRAMEWORK BASED ON TIMELINES - An on-line partial order planning system and method that represents variables in an environment for which a plan is being developed in the form of a plurality of timelines formed as a set of timelines. At a starting point, the set of timelines are an inconsistent set of timelines, and the system and method systematically refine the timelines until the timeline set becomes consistent. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185289 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Determining Future Profitability - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for determining future profitability for an entity. A present profitability model is generated for the entity based upon present values for a plurality of components of profitability. The present profitability model is used to create a future profitability forecast for the entity. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197676 | EVALUATING OPERATIONAL MATURITY OF BUSINESS COMMODITIES - Systems, methods, and computer program products for evaluating the operational maturity of business commodities are disclosed. An operational maturity score is computed and based, at least in part, on documentation data relating to operational documents of the business commodities. A determination of the maturity lifecycle stage of the commodity may also be made. If desired, with operational maturity scores and/or maturity lifecycle stage determinations of multiple business commodities, comparison data may be produced to conveniently compare the operational maturity of a plurality of business commodities. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203586 | Field Service Networking Platform - An agent of a service provider may visit a customer location and learn of a service need beyond the scope of services provided by the service provider. The agent may use a mobile device to access a service provider network that contains information about multiple service providers and relationships between those service providers. The mobile device may provide an unfulfilled customer service need as a customer lead to a lead pool within the service provider network. The agent may also use a mobile device to “up-serve” the customer by scheduling a service appointment with another service provider from the service provider network. That other service provider may be selected based on relationships stored in the service provider network. The type of relationships in the service provider network may include competitor, affiliate, associate, and the like. Customers may access the service provider network through a portal to directly schedule service. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203587 | INTEGRATED ENGINEERING AND WORKFLOW SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERING AND EXECUTING WORKFLOWS OF MECHATRONIC OBJECTS - An integrated engineering and workflow system for engineering and executing workflows of mechatronic objects, wherein each mechatronic object comprises workflow data controlling an execution of at least one workflow within a life-cycle phase of a corresponding mechatronic entity. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209646 | Method and computer program product for optimization of maintenance plans - A method for optimization of maintenance plans for a plant is provided. The method includes providing input data having at least one of a plurality of indicia regarding a configuration of the plant and a plurality of constraints regarding planned outages of the plant, optimizing the input data, and generating a maintenance plan with maximum equivalent output per a defined observation period regarding the plant. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215574 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - A method for performance management including receiving performance data for a project, receiving risk data for the project, developing an estimate to complete (ETC) based on the performance data, adjusting the ETC based on the risk data, and developing an estimate at completion (EAC) based on the adjusted ETC. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215575 | Risk Assessment And Prioritization Framework - A system and method of identifying, assessing and prioritizing risks are provided. The system and method may include a risk identification module that may identify one or more risks to a business, organization, entity, group or department within the entity, etc. One or more risk variables associated with each identified risk may then be identified. In some examples, the risk variables may be the same or substantially similar for all identified risks. A risk score for each identified risk variable may be determined and an overall risk score for each identified risk may then be determined based on the determined variable risk scores. In some examples, the overall score may be normalized on a predetermined scale. Once an overall score for each risk is determined, the risks having the highest priority may be identified. | 08-23-2012 |
20120232942 | CONTROL AND TRACKING SYSTEM FOR MATERIAL MOVEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method is provided for monitoring, tracking and/or coordinating the movement of items and/or equipment aboard a vessel. More particularly, a system and method is provided for controlling material flow, planning, reporting, scheduling, and inventory tracking of items throughout a vessel. The system comprises a computer infrastructure configured to receive item identification from remote sources and provide transporting instructions based on the item identification and predetermined criteria to operators for movement of cargo within a vessel. The system also includes at least one external device configured to at least receive the transporting instructions from the computer infrastructure. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239448 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTATION AND UPSELLING OF PRODUCT - A system and method for using product profiling to maximize load capacity of a vehicle. The method includes defining product profiles and retrieving product information associated with the product profiles. The method further includes performing cubing operations for products associated with the product information. The system includes components to perform the method steps. | 09-20-2012 |
20120253863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARATRANSIT RUN-CUTTING - A method and system for paratransil run-cutting is provided. A target number of paratransit vehicles is determined for each of a set of time intervals. A target number of trips corresponding to the target number of paratransit vehicles is generated for each time interval, each of said mock trips being defined such that a vehicle performing one of said mock trips in one of said time intervals is able to perform any of said mock trips in an immediately subsequent one of said time intervals. The target number of mock trips for each of the time intervals is entered into a fixed-route transit run-cutting application. Paratransit runs are created using fixed-route transit runs generated by said fixed-route transit run-cutting application. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253864 | METHODS FOR RECORDING AND TRACKING PROJECTS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus that obtains project data in one or more form fields of one or more remotely located user based interfaces for a project. The obtained project data from the one or more form fields of the one or more remotely located user based interfaces for the project is validated. The validated project data is recorded in a project database for the project directly from each of the one or more remotely located user based interfaces. A project tracking report is generated based on the recorded project data. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PLANNING PRODUCTION USING FEATURE DRIVEN VALUE APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES - A system and method is disclosed of implementing a production planning module that is configured to optimize overall costs associated with reconfiguring a production facility during a changeover between to produce a another product family over a plurality of cycles. User input data is received via a user interface and a first state vector is created and is representative of a first product family and a first inventory of items of all product families manufactured at the production facility. A first action vector is created of a first quantity of items to be produced of the first product family in a first current cycle and a second product family to be produced in a second cycle. A first state-action value function is calculated for the first action vector in a first iteration and incorporates a first sampled demand of the first inventory items of the product families, a first inventory cost associated with the first inventory and a first set up cost. A second state vector is created based on the first state vector, the first action vector and the first sampled demand. The second state vector is made of a second inventory of items of all the product families. The method comprises creating a second action vector of a second quantity of items to be produced of the second product family in the second cycle and a third product family to be produced in a third cycle. A second state-action value function is calculated for the second action vector, a second sample demand of items, a second inventory cost associated with production of the second quantity of items and a second set up cost associated with reconfiguration of the production facility from producing the second product family to producing the third product family. A cost optimization result policy is output by minimizing, over all actions vectors, the first state-action value function in the user interface. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253866 | ORGANIZATION OF REVERSE FLEXIBLE MEETING SCHEDULES - A method and system for scheduling a meeting between a schedule entity and a plurality of booking entities over a communications network. The method comprises presenting a meeting schedule of the schedule entity for access by the plurality of booking entities, such that the meeting schedule defines a meeting period including a start time and an end time and the meeting period is divided into a first meeting interval and a second meeting interval such that the intervals are located in the meeting period between the start and end times. The method also confirms booking of a first meeting for a first booking entity of the plurality of booking entities in the first meeting interval and maintains the availability of the first meeting interval to accept another meeting booking by another booking entity of the plurality of booking entities based on a booking number threshold defining the maximum number of allowed meeting bookings for the first meeting interval. The method also confirms a second meeting for a second booking entity of the plurality of booking entities in the same first meeting interval. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253867 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING OPERATIONAL DELAYS BASED ON OPERATIONAL DATA - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management computer system configured for assessing operational delays. According to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system may be configured for assessing service data in order to identify delay code segments representing an occurrence indicated by a vehicle operator as delaying a delivery-related activity. In certain embodiments, the fleet management computer system may be configured for generating a graphical representation of such delay code segments. In addition, various embodiments of the fleet management computer system may be configured for comparing planning data and operational data to identify off-course portions of a travel path of a vehicle that do not follow a predefined planned route. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253868 | HEALTHCARE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A healthcare information communication system is configured to facilitate scheduling of patient appointments without sending information to the medical practice indicating preferred appointment times. The system searches a current schedule for appointments at the medical practice for available timeslots to schedule an appointment. The current schedule is stored by a scheduling component of a practice management system. In response to receiving a selection of an available timeslot to schedule the appointment, the current schedule for appointments at the medical practice is updated in real-time without intervention from staff at the medical practice. An administrator at the medical practice may configure aspects of the scheduling component to customize appointment scheduling for one or more departments and/or providers at the medical practice. The system stores scheduling configuration information associating appointment types with schedule timeslots and the scheduling configuration information may be used in the determination of available timeslots when scheduling an appointment. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253869 | System and Method for Process Improvement and Associated Products and Services - A method for identifying opportunities in a computer environment to improve a process comprising providing a tool for measuring and manipulating inputted and collected data. The measurements are scaled in large or small increments, convertible to other scales, and provided in units that are mixable. The tool allows a user to associate objects with other objects and resources. The tool provides the ability for a user to select, view, manipulate, analyze and graph effects to resources and other objects caused by incremental changes to an object to determine an amount of improvement of the process. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253870 | MAINTENANCE PLAN FORMULATION SYSTEM, MAINTENANCE PLAN FORMULATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A maintenance plan formulation system formulates a plan for maintaining an industrial machine used to conduct a specific operation. The maintenance plan formulation system includes first measuring means, second measuring means, and a maintenance plan formulation device. The first measuring means measures a value of information which varies by causing the industrial machine to operate for a specific job. The second measuring means measures a value of information which varies by causing the industrial machine to operate for a job other than the specific job. The maintenance plan formulation device formulates a plan for maintaining the industrial machine on the basis of the values of information measured by the first measuring means and the second measuring means. | 10-04-2012 |
20120265569 | DETERMINING WORK PLACEMENT PREFERENCES - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to determine work placement preferences are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving, via a processor, a request for a resource to fill an open position within an organization, the request including a primary resource group for the open position, determining with the processor resource group preferences of resource groups using a structure of the organization that includes functional relationships between the resource groups, calculating weights for the resource group preferences based on respective organizational distances in the structure of the respective resource groups from the primary resource group, determining a target resource group with a greatest calculated weight for a resource group preference from among the resource groups that have at least one available resource, and selecting a resource within the target resource group to fill the open position. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265570 | METHOD FOR CRITICAL PATH SCHEDULING OF ACTIVITY TIME SEGMENTS - A project management scheduling method applies critical path scheduling to separate the duration of each activity of the project into a group of segmented time segments attached to each other. The computer implemented method converts all activity relationships into finish-to-start between time segments without lead or lag times and corrects float and critical path calculations. Additional time segments representing daily events having either a positive or negative effect on time segment duration can be inputted and the project schedule adjusted accordingly. The method can also be employed in the conversion of existing critical path method scheduling systems. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265571 | MATCHING RESOURCES OF A SECURITIES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT TO ACCOUNTS OF THE DEPARTMENT - Systems and methods for allocating limited resources of a securities research department to accounts of the department are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the system includes an account scoring module and a resource matching module. The account scoring module is for generating a score for each account, and the resource matching module is for matching the resources of the department to the accounts based on the scores for each account. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271673 | Systems and Methods for Facility Management and Maintenance Tracking - Systems and methods are utilized by facility managers for facility management and maintenance tracking. Specifically, systems and methods provide facility managers with the ability to manage one or more facilities in an organization or a company. More specifically, systems and methods of the present invention provide facility managers the ability to manage facilities and track information relating to the facilities, manage service required at the facilities, and manage bids from vendors for capital projects to the facilities. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271674 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying and Contacting Customers Who Are Due for a Visit But Have Not Scheduled an Appointment - A management database is queried to determine which customers have failed to respond to recall notices. The resulting list of customers may be sorted or filtered so that some customers are preferentially contacted first, based on expected value or office preferences. The list may also be sorted or filtered to fill specific providers' schedules first. Customer names and contact information are then presented to schedulers so that customers may be contacted. The time and date of each contact is automatically recorded along with the outcome of the contact. A customer name is presented to a scheduler only if the same name is not being simultaneously presented to other schedulers and that customer was not too recently contacted, so that redundant or too frequent contacts are avoided. | 10-25-2012 |
20120284071 | RETAIL PRE-PACK OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM - A system for determining an optimized pre-pack solution receives demand data and constraints and initializes a current pre-pack configuration comprising a current pre-pack design that comprises a plurality of pre-pack types, each pre-pack type comprising one or more different products. The system optimizes a pre-pack allocation based on the current pre-pack configuration and determines an objective function value improvement comprising, for each product in each pre-pack type, changing a level of the product by one unit and determining if the objective function value has improved. If the objective function value has improved, the system generates a new pre-pack design based on the changed level of the product and assigns the new pre-pack design as the current pre-pack design and re-optimizes the allocation. The system repeats until the objective function value stops improving. The system then outputs an optimized pre-pack configuration and optimized pre-pack allocation. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284072 | RAM-IP: A COMPUTERIZED METHOD FOR PROCESS OPTIMIZATION, PROCESS CONTROL, AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT BASED ON A RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK - Risk Analytics Management—Integrated Process (“RAM-IP”), a computerized method for project optimization, process control and performance management based on a risk management framework. A project comprises a plurality of risk sources, e.g., nine, that are managed from Day One by establishing a plurality of risk streams, e.g., | 11-08-2012 |
20120290346 | EXECUTING A BUSINESS PROCESS BY A STANDARD BUSINESS PROCESS ENGINE - Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290347 | PROGRESS MONITORING METHOD - The progress monitoring method is based on a critical path method (CPM) and conducts comparisons against multiple possible outcomes utilizing neural networks that classify planned progress at specified cut-off dates during a planning stage. The classifications are used to monitor and evaluate actual progress during the construction stage. The pattern recognition techniques generalize a virtual benchmark to represent planned progress based on multiple possible outcomes generated at each cut-off date. The generalization feature overcomes the problem of variation in the quality of data collected. Patterns are constructed to encode planned and actual progress at different cut-off dates. Patterns are readily manipulated within computer programs and substitute for photographs, which are not comprehensive in representing the work status of interior and hidden parts of the under-construction facilities. | 11-15-2012 |
20120303397 | Charging Service Vehicle Network - Charging service vehicle networks are among the embodiments disclosed herein, including battery module-powered EV charging roadside service vehicles. Battery modules are removably mounted to the service vehicles and manually exchanged within a system of battery module storage locations. Some embodiments provide resupply vehicles for delivering battery modules between storage locations and/or service vehicles, and may be used to exchange battery modules. Controllers are used to reserve battery modules at the storage locations to ensure availability for high priority activities. Some storage locations have charging apparatus to recharge battery modules stored there, and some storage locations are repositionable mobile units. Multiple tiers or levels of system controllers used by service vehicles to control centers are implemented to manage operations and optimize usage of battery modules and charging services across wide areas, including providing additional service vehicles to supply temporary needs for charging services. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303398 | METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF POST-SALES SERVICES SUPPLY CHAIN - A method for enabling collaborative planning, learning, and service supply chain execution using collaborative distributed nodes (CDNs) to fulfill aftermarket service needs of a company in a hierarchical and dynamic environment where products are serviced in a multitude of geographies. The method allows accelerated decision and planning function in the supply chain sub chains, and post-sales services supply chain leading to dynamic, efficient and optimized planning and collaborative execution. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303399 | ENTERPRISE RENDERING PLATFORM - According to one non-limiting embodiment, an enterprise rendering platform for providing ERP functionality for a computing device having a web browser includes at least one ERP system storing enterprise data on at least one server. A rendering workbench provides a GUI-based editor in which metadata for at least one selected ERP function is presented to a view setup user, and in which a view for executing the ERP function may be created with no coding. A repository stores the view and the metadata for the view. The gateway invokes an execution engine to execute the ERP function to retrieve ERP data and renders the view to include the retrieved ERP data. The rendered view is sent to a remote user for display in a web browser on a computing device | 11-29-2012 |
20120303400 | INTELLIGENT BUYER'S AGENT USAGE FOR ALLOCATION OF SERVICE LEVEL CHARACTERISTICS - A system, method, program product and service for managing bidding in a resource management framework. A buyer's agent is provided to manage the bidding process for resources for a client. The buyer's agent includes the ability to submit a bid to a resource broker to acquire a set of resources for the client based on service level requirements of the client. Once the set of resources is obtained, they are monitored to ensure the required service level of the client is being met. If the service level requirements are not met, the buyer's agent automatically resubmits a bid to the resource broker. Finally, collaboration among a plurality of buyer's agents may be utilized to avoid bidding wars and the like. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310689 | OPTIMAL PLANNING OF BUILDING RETROFIT FOR A PORTFOLIO OF BUILDINGS - Generating an optimal planning of building retrofit for a portfolio of buildings may include providing a plurality of objective functions that may be selected for maximizing cost reduction, maximizing green house gas emission reduction, or maximizing energy reduction, or combinations thereof. The objective function may be solved based on information including at least a retrofit cost for retrofitting a building, payback period specifying the length of time needed to recover the retrofit cost, a budget available for retrofitting the building, expected price of energy, estimated energy savings from retrofitting and estimated green house gas emission from retrofitting. The planning of building retrofit may be generated based on the solutions of one or more of the objective functions, which may provide for an optimal plan of building retrofit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310690 | ERP TRANSACTION RECORDING TO TABLES SYSTEM AND METHOD - An ERP client may automatically determine a list of one or more ERP database tables that store the data associated with a particular business transaction in the ERP system. At the time a given business transaction is executed via a business transaction UI, various embodiments record screen fields presented via the business transaction UI, map the screen fields to persistent ERP database fields, and report to the business user a list of database tables that the business transaction updated. The business user may then use this information to construct reports related to the business transaction or for other purposes. | 12-06-2012 |
20120316905 | HIERARCHICAL PROJECT TECHNICAL EVALUATION SYSTEM - A system for providing a hierarchical project technical evaluation tool is provided. The system includes an application for obtaining technical assessment data for work products of a project and storing the technical assessment data to a data repository. A hierarchical project evaluation tool application generates a project technical status based on the assessment data in the data repository. The system also includes a file importation and conversion device in communication with the data repository, the file importation and conversion device converts data files to a useable format within the hierarchical project evaluation tool application. The system further includes a project integrated master schedule in communication with the file importation and conversion device, that provides data to the data repository for use with the hierarchical project evaluation tool application. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316906 | SPATIAL-TEMPORAL OPTIMIZATION OF PHYSICAL ASSET MAINTENANCE - A method for determining a maintenance schedule of geographically dispersed physical assets includes receiving asset data including infrastructure relationships between the assets, modeling failure risk of the assets based on spatial, temporal and network relationships, and producing the maintenance schedule according to a combination of the risk model, asset data, maintenance, and external operation constraints. The maintenance schedule may be corrective and/or strategic. | 12-13-2012 |
20120330705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE AUTOMATIC GEOGRAPHIC ALLOTMENT RELEASE IN A LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is a logistics management system (LMS). The LMS has a host computer system for executing the LMS. A user interface module is used in conjunction with the system module of the host computer. The user interface module may have information fields, where at least one of the information fields is a lead time that is used along with a departure time associated with a transportation event to determine a release time. The release time indicates when to adjust an allotment associated with the transportation segment. | 12-27-2012 |
20130013357 | Uniformly Managing Resources and Business Operations - A system for managing resources and business processes includes a plurality of resource objects stored in a resource object database. Each resource object represents a corresponding resource for use by a business process. Each of the plurality of resource objects includes data pertaining to a state of availability of the corresponding resource. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013358 | E-COMMERCE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DEALER SELF-ROUTING - An e-commerce content management system generates at least one Website that permits configuration of the Website for dealer self-routing, user directed vendor substitution, destination routing and dynamic vendor substitution routing. The e-commerce content management system allows a user to configure the system, including a Website, such as configuring a dealer Website as part of an ecosystem that includes an alliance of dealers, manufacturers, shippers and other participants that fill orders. The ecosystem integrates orders processed through a business process management kernel operating on one or more computers. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018683 | SYSTEM AND DECISION MODEL FOR OPTIMIZING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIOS AND TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIOS FOR BUILDING BRAND EQUITY - A technology platform, software, business system and decision model to build brand equity or improve business performance through more effective product/technology portfolio management and better alignment of product and technology strategy with brand strategy | 01-17-2013 |
20130024225 | BUSINESS OUTCOME TRADEOFF SIMULATOR - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting a forecastability strategy from among a group of forecastability strategies based on business outcomes. A group of predefined forecastability strategies is received along with historical supply chain management data. Each forecastability strategy represents a set of rules by which to determine whether each item of a plurality of items within a supply chain management system is to be managed using statistical forecasting. The historical supply chain management data represents past events in a supply chain associated with at least two items selected from the plurality of items within the supply chain management system. Each of the forecastability strategies is applied to the historical data in order to generate business outcomes for each of the forecastability strategies. A forecastability strategy is selected based on the business outcomes and implemented to manage each of the items within the supply chain management system. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024226 | ENTERPRISE PLANNING TOOL - This invention relates to an enterprise planning tool. Enterprise planning tools are used to manage the operations of an entity and are becoming increasingly popular as companies migrate from spreadsheet based planning. The present invention provides an enterprise planning tool that comprises a plurality of interconnected objects, each object comprising at least one attribute and each object having a time dimension. Each of the objects has a relationship with one or more other objects thereby connecting the objects together. The relationship consists of at least one common attribute and at least a partial time dimension common to both objects. The object relationships are arranged so that each of the objects in the enterprise planning tool is connected to each of the remaining objects in the enterprise planning tool either directly or indirectly through one or more connected objects. By having such a tool, it is possible to provide more accurate information in a quick and efficient manner. | 01-24-2013 |
20130030852 | Associative Memory-Based Project Management System - A method and apparatus for managing information for projects is provided. Information for the projects is stored as data entities in an associative memory. The associative memory includes a plurality of data having a plurality of associations in which the data entities are included in the plurality of data. The associative memory further includes a content-addressable structure. The associative memory is configured to be queried based on at least one relationship selected from a group that includes direct relationships and indirect relationships among the plurality of data. The data entities stored in the associative memory are grouped to form a number of clusters. A report is generated using the number of clusters. | 01-31-2013 |
20130041705 | DISTRIBUTION NETWORK MAINTENANCE PLANNING - A system, method and computer program product for maintaining an infrastructure of components. The system receives structured data, unstructured data, and infrastructure data from a database. The system runs at least one statistical and optimization modeler with one or more of: the received structured data, the received unstructured data and the received infrastructure data, in order to calculate a health index of at least one component of the infrastructure. The health index represents a health attribute of the at least one component. The system establishes at least one maintenance plan of the infrastructure, based on the calculated health index. Each established maintenance plan is associated with at least one health index. The system compares health indices of the at least one established maintenance plan. The system selects a plan, among the at least one established maintenance plan, whose health index is a maximum among the compared health indices. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCES - In one example, a method of optimization of resources is provided. The method comprises receiving data related to one or more predetermined parameters and one or more rules for optimization of one or more resources. The method further comprises encoding the received data. In addition, the method comprises generating one or more objective functions, one or more constraints, and one or more output indicators using the received data and the encoded data. Further, the method comprises generating one or more models and sub-models corresponding to the one or more resources. Furthermore, the method comprises generating one or more optimization results associated with the one or more sub-models using a distributed computing framework. The method further comprises generating an aggregated optimized result which is used for optimization of the one or more resources. | 02-14-2013 |
20130054287 | VEHICLE DEALERSHIP CUSTOMER SERVICE AND RETENTION UTILITY - The invention provides a convenient platform in the form of a dealership utility through which customers and dealers can manage vehicles and service appointments. Customers may log-in to access a customer module of the dealership utility through which they may receive notifications pertaining to their vehicle, view vehicle status information, adjust their preferences and settings, schedule and manage service appointments, contact the dealership and view service histories associated with their vehicles. Dealers may log-in to access a dealer module of the dealership utility through which they may manage employees, customers and service appointments, as well as review customer surveys and business reports. The dealership utility may be implemented as a web application, software application, or mobile application, and/or in combination with a text messaging system, usable by customers and dealers on any computing device such as personal computers and mobile phones. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054288 | ARRANGING REMOTE ENGAGEMENTS - A request is received from a consumer for an electronic, real-time communication with a medical service provider; the availability of the medical service provider is assessed; if the medical service provider is not immediately available, a first scheduling option including waiting in queue and a second scheduling option including an appointment with the medical service provider are provided; a choice among the first scheduling option and the second scheduling option is received from the consumer; and the electronic, real-time communication between the consumer and the medical service provider is arranged, based at least in part on the scheduling option chosen by the consumer. | 02-28-2013 |
20130066665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SELECTION OF WORKFLOWS - A method for selecting a business process workflow. The method includes the steps of receiving a set of performance results, where each performance result is associated with a different business process workflow executed by a business process engine, determining a best-performing business process workflow based on selecting the business process workflow having the highest performance result in the set of performance results, and automatically routing work items through the selected business process workflow. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066666 | Enhancing Performance of Crops Within An Area of Interest - Enhancing crop performance using a computer coupled to a memory, including receiving a plurality of area of interest (AOI) raster files from a remote sensing device via a network, and generating at least one index raster file based on the plurality of AOI raster files. At least one yield zone is defined within the AOI based on the at least one index raster file, and a hybrid and a seed rate are determined for the hybrid for use in planting in the at least one yield zone. A planting recommendation is generated for the AOI based on the hybrid and the seed rate and is delivered to a planter, wherein the planter is configured to plant the at least one yield zone using the hybrid and the seed rate. | 03-14-2013 |
20130080200 | ANALYZING AND PRESENTING SUPPLY, FABRICATION, AND LOGISTICS DATA - Supply chain management that provides end-to-end supply chain visibility to a supply chain manager. The supply chain management may include aggregation of supply chain snapshot data and supply chain flow data to provide improved end-to-end supply chain visibility to a supply chain manager. In turn, supply chain managers may have improved ability to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate deficiencies in the supply chain to improve revenue and provide increased customer satisfaction and more efficient logistics in the supply chain. | 03-28-2013 |
20130090962 | PROVIDING VARIABILITY AND MATERIALIZATION OVER LINKS CONNECTING PRODUCT LINE RESOURCES - A system for providing variability and materialization over links connecting product line resources is disclosed herein. The system may include a user interface configured to issue a request for a product-line resource given in a specified product configuration context, responsive to a user selection, wherein the product configuration contains one or more features of the feature model, wherein the product line resources are stored on one or more databases and are further connected between themselves via links, each associated with a respective variability, based on the feature model and the product line resources connected via the links; and a resources fetcher configured to retrieve the resources requested in view of the specified product configuration by providing the links associated with the variability of the specified product configuration. | 04-11-2013 |
20130103441 | Generating Predictions for Business Processes Whose Execution is Driven by Data - A method for generating predictions includes dividing a business process model into fragments, wherein the business process model includes task nodes and at least one decision node, determining the decision node in at least one of the fragments, determining a decision tree for each decision node, determining a probability for reaching a terminal node in each fragment, and merging the probabilities obtained from the fragments to find a probability of a future task. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110566 | EVALUATION TOOL AND PROCESS | 05-02-2013 |
20130117054 | TRANSPORTATION NETWORK SCHEDULING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system includes a scheduling module and a monitoring module. The scheduling module is configured to generate schedules for vehicles to concurrently travel in a transportation network formed of interconnected routes over which the vehicles travel. The monitoring module is configured to determine financial costs of fuel at refueling locations within the transportation network that are used by one or more of the vehicles to acquire additional fuel. The scheduling module is configured to coordinate the schedules of the vehicles based on the financial costs of the fuel while maintaining a throughput parameter of the transportation network above a designated threshold. The throughput parameter represents adherence by the vehicles to the schedules as the vehicles travel through the transportation network. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117055 | TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING FUNCTIONS FROM AN E-MAIL CLIENT APPLICATION - Techniques and apparatuses for providing access to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from e-mail applications are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a processing unit and a client e-mail application executing on the processing unit. An add-on application may be installed on the client e-mail application. The add-on application allows the client e-mail application to receive an ERP action from an ERP system via a supply hub; act on the ERP action with a second ERP action; and send the second ERP action to the ERP system via the supply hub. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117056 | TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING FUNCTIONS FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT CLIENT APPLICATION - Techniques and apparatuses for providing access to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from CRM applications are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a processing unit and a client CRM application executing on the processing unit. An add-on application may be installed on the client CRM application. The add-on application allows the client CRM application to receive an ERP action from an ERP system via a supply hub; act on the ERP action with a second ERP action; and send the second ERP action to the ERP system via the supply hub. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124242 | VIDEO REVIEW WORKFLOW PROCESS - Subject matter disclosed herein relates to video content editing, and in particular, to video review workflow. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124243 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING DOCUMENTS TO MANAGE A PROPOSAL LIFECYCLE - The system and method described herein may integrate an enterprise proposal management system with various enterprise systems, applications, data sources, and other resources to provide a comprehensive solution to manage and coordinate a proposal lifecycle and data associated therewith. In particular, the system and method described herein may integrate and use business information stored in various data sources to execute repeatable and effective strategies to manage business development and proposal efforts, reduce the time that proposal authors spend to search, retrieve, and use content from past proposals to create proposals likely to win new business, coordinate collaboration across organizational teams involved in managing proposal, reliably track capture and proposal pipelines, and preserve documents, data, and other information relevant to the proposal lifecycle, thereby providing real business value in day-to-day proposal management operations. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124244 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PROPOSAL LIFECYCLE - The system and method described herein may integrate an enterprise proposal management system with various enterprise systems, applications, data sources, and other resources to provide a comprehensive solution to manage and coordinate a proposal lifecycle and data associated therewith. In particular, the system and method described herein may integrate and use business information stored in various data sources to execute repeatable and effective strategies to manage business development and proposal efforts, reduce the time that proposal authors spend to search, retrieve, and use content from past proposals to create proposals likely to win new business, coordinate collaboration across organizational teams involved in managing proposal, reliably track capture and proposal pipelines, and preserve documents, data, and other information relevant to the proposal lifecycle, thereby providing real business value in day-to-day proposal management operations. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138461 | Mobile Service Platform - A method and apparatus for a service platform capable of providing device-based task completion is disclosed. A request for a task is received at a service platform from a customer. A worker device to complete the task is selected from a group of worker devices registered with the service platform based on a current attribute of the worker device. Data resulting from completion of the task is received from the selected worker device, validated, and presented to the customer. A reward or incentive can be provided to the worker device in response to the data being received from the worker device and validated. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144669 | System And Method For Maintaining, Inspecting And Assessing The Reliability Of Elevator And Other People Moving Devices - An elevator device having a computer system associated therewith for determining a risk of failure in the elevator device and for determining an inspection schedule to mitigate the risk. The computer system includes a module for determining an acceptable risk score, a module for determining an inspection schedule based on said risk score, a module for determining an increase in risk score proportional to a time elapsed since an expected inspection in the inspection schedule if the expected inspection has been missed, a module for determining a tolerance within the inspection schedule based on the increased risk, and a module for specifying an inspection schedule and an inspection tolerance based on the determined schedule and the determined tolerance. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A NETWORK - A system includes first and second allocation units that allocate resources in a network according to respective first and second selected allocations for driving the resources toward a respective first or second goal conditions. At least one of the first or second allocation unit is configured to generate and provide feedback data to the other of the first or second allocation unit. The feedback data represents a difference between an actual allocation of the one or more resources and the corresponding first or second selected allocation. At least one of the first or second allocation unit is configured to change the corresponding first or second selected allocation to change how the resources are allocated in the network based on the feedback data. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151297 | Urban Computing of Route-Oriented Vehicles - Techniques for analyzing effectiveness of an urban area based on traffic patterns collected from route-oriented vehicles. A process collects sequences of global positioning system (GPS) points in logs and identifies geographical locations to represent the urban area where the route-oriented vehicles traveled. The process models traffic patterns by: partitioning the urban area into regions based at least in part on major roads, segmenting the GPS points from the logs into time slots, and identifying the GPS points associated with transporting a passenger in the route-oriented vehicles. The process models traffic patterns by projecting the identified GPS points onto the regions to construct transitions of the identified GPS points travelling between the regions. Then the process builds a matrix of the regions for each time slot in each day based on a number of the transitions. Each item in the matrix represents an effectiveness of a connection between two regions. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159036 | RUNTIME GENERATION OF INSTANCE CONTEXTS VIA MODEL-BASED DATA RELATIONSHIPS - A seed element can be determined by identifying a business object type underlying a current use context of a currently active application environment experienced by a user of a business software architecture. At runtime, a data context can be populated by applying a set of data derivation rules stored in a meta-model to compare the seed element to a plurality of business object instances retained in memory. Status and responsibility rules stored in the meta-model can be evaluated based on the data context to build a set of up-to-date process or scenario instance information. A process navigation user interface configuration presentable on a computer display device can display up-to-date instance information relating to the current use context for a business process or scenario instance related to the current use context. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159037 | MULTILEVEL VISUALIZATION OF SCENARIO MODELS AND SCENARIO INSTANCES - A single meta-model can include metadata defining a business scenario landscape that includes business scenarios accessible to members of an organization that are supported by a business software architecture. The metadata can include business process definitions and relationships between business processes. A user interface can present first, second, and/or third visualization layers based on the metadata. The first visualization layer can include first user interface elements forming a business scenario landscape map showing business scenarios and at least one relationship between the business scenarios. The second visualization layer can include second user interface elements displayed in a navigation pane concurrently with a work pane. The second user interface elements can represent a linear sequence of second business processes of a business scenario while the work pane can include additional user interface elements corresponding to functionality provided by the business software architecture relating to a currently selected business process. | 06-20-2013 |
20130173321 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING, UPDATING AND EXECUTING A CROP-HARVESTING PLAN - Crop-harvesting plans automatically generated based on crop-harvesting information received from a variety of sources, such as a user, remote sensor, database, data feed and/or a social network. The crop-harvesting plans may dynamically aid farmers and other production agriculture professionals when determining a crop-harvesting plan and then implementing that crop-harvesting plan. Crop-harvesting plans may include a variety of recommended crop-harvesting practices, logistics, sequences and projected outcomes for the implementation of the recommended crop-harvesting plan. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AGRICULTURAL PEDIGREE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF THE SAME FOR COMMUNICATION, REAL TIME DECISION MAKING, PREDICTIVE MODELING, RISK SHARING AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE - A method for establishing an agricultural pedigree for agricultural products comprises the steps of: (a) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of data relating to agricultural product production and distribution from multiple sources; (b) Inputting said data into said information storage device; (c) Storing and said data; and (d) Providing access to said data via the open communication network, wherein the information storage device is configured to be used as at least: (i) A tool for traceability of the agricultural products, (ii) A real time decision making tool, and (iii) A predictive modeling tool. | 07-18-2013 |
20130197951 | Incident Management and Monitoring Systems and Methods - An incident management and monitoring system, including: at least one central controller configured to receive global resource data, user data, and organizational data; and at least one user interface in direct or indirect communication with the at least one central controller and configured to display content comprising at least one of the following: at least a portion of the global resource data; at least a portion of the user data, at least a portion of the organizational data, at least one selectable element, at least one configurable element, at least one control element, at least one user input area, visual data, processed data, or any combination thereof. A user interface for incident management and monitoring is also provided. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197952 | PRODUCT PRODUCIBLE NUMBER CALCULATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus having a processing unit for using information stored in a storage unit to calculate a producible number of each item is disclosed. The processing unit sets up a steady mode or a non-steady mode based on input information or the information stored in the storage. The processor unit operates, in the steady mode, to calculate a producible number by using a supply path stored in a supply path storage unit. In the nonsteady mode, the processor sets up a time taken for an item to be moved between hubs not being stored in the supply path storage unit, and repeatedly computes, from end-piece parts of an item configuration up to the product, a quantity of a parent item having the item as its component when this item is transferred between the hubs by use of an inventory or work-in-process quantity, thereby calculating the product producible number. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197953 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING USER REPORTING - Disclosed are methods and apparatuses that efficiently provides for end user reporting from interactive applications. One embodiment provides an approach for implementing dynamic field selection for a user to select report parameters for an end user report using the user interface of an ERP application. User inputs are used to automatically generate queries to form a report data model usable by a reporting tool. | 08-01-2013 |
20130218617 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF ORG MODEL AND BEST PRACTICES - An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium to efficiently create and model ERP representations of an organization (ORG). Predefined ERP entities may be presented to a user. The user may instantiate (or create) one or more of the presented entities. The user may be presented with predefined dimension types and available dimension values for the instantiated entity. The user may select/assign values to the dimension types, and as a result, the available values for other dimension types of one or more instantiated entities may decrease. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226637 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STOCHASTICALLY USING ELECTRIC VEHICLES AS MOBILE ENERGY STORAGE - Systems and methods for energy management includes receiving parameters from commercial building management system components; generating a stochastic programming model of electric vehicles (EVs) as mobile energy storage (MES) for optimal planning, operation, and control purposes; and controlling operation of EVs according to the stochastic programming model to lower operating cost and carbon emission. | 08-29-2013 |
20130231968 | Method and System for Identifying Management Zones for Variable-Rate Crop Inputs - A method and system for identifying management zones for variable-rate crop inputs, wherein the zones are developed using soil, water and topography base maps. The base maps are combined into various different zone maps, and a final zone map is selected on the basis of observed field characteristics. | 09-05-2013 |
20130246106 | HIERARCHICAL BUDGET PROCESS ORCHESTRATION - A hierarchical budgeting structure is generated and used for generating and reviewing budgets during the budget planning process. Automated workflows for generating the budget and iteratively reviewing the budget are determined based upon the hierarchical budgeting structure. The hierarchical budgeting structure is first defined and that hierarchical budgeting structure is used to control flow of the information during the budget planning process. Nodes in the hierarchal structure each have an associated workflow and a set of rules that control activities that can be performed at a given node and that control security features corresponding to that node. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246107 | Method and Device for Assigning Surplus Slabs in the Slab Yard before Hot Rolling Process - The present invention provides a method and device for assigning surplus slabs in the slab yard to orders before hot rolling process, the method comprises steps of: S | 09-19-2013 |
20130246108 | ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING SYSTEM AND PROCESS THEREFOR - An architectural planning system, that includes software and the process thereof, which actively tracks the relationship of organizational groups as well as the required connections therebetween, which information can be actively taken into account during an architectural planning phase. Generally, this provides an improved software tool and process for planning the physical locations of organizational groups within the building space. Further, changes in organizational needs can be readily modified and adapted through direct and dynamic collaboration between these parties. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246109 | SYSTEM, ARTICLE, AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING RESOURCE VARIATION - A system and article are disclosed for annotating resource variation. In one example, the system discloses an installation | 09-19-2013 |
20130253968 | FACILITY CONTROL SYSTEM (FCS, C1) TO MANAGE ASSETS PLANNING, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, FABRICATION, OPERATING, MAINTENCE AND PRODUCTS - A facility control system includes lab, field and construction equipment with a wireless transceiver to transmit machine generated actual initial measurement (AIM) data including GPS information from a field activity to a wide area network; a mobile computer with a wireless transceiver to transmit human generated data from an office, a remote lab, or a field test or inspection to the network; and a server coupled to the network, the server including a database to receive machine and human generated AIM data, wherein the server applies statistics and engineering methods to predict specification compliance and performance, wherein the AIM data is used with pre-formatted engineered designed data sheets that reflect the exact location of the event and required standards including incorporating best construction practices for installation of one or more construction items and materials quality to promote standardization, uniformity that insures contract compliance and minimizes non-conforming items in real time. | 09-26-2013 |
20130268307 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT - In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a system and methods are provided for managing resource allocation by generating a finance-investment plan relative to one or more time intervals while maintaining a cash reserve at a predetermined threshold based on information related to financial activities including asset related activities and liability related activities. The systems and methods may include evaluating accounts receivable patterns for each asset to determine cash surplus ranges within the one or more time intervals, evaluating accounts payable patterns for each liability to determine cash flow gaps within the one or more time intervals, maintaining an asset-to-liability ratio during the one or more time intervals, and generating the finance-investment plan while maintaining the cash reserve at the predetermined threshold within the one or more time intervals based on the asset-to-liability ratio and potential cash flow forecasting schemes for each asset and liability. | 10-10-2013 |
20130290049 | COST ENTITY MATCHING - A method for cost entity matching can include constructing a first graph including a number of first entities and a number of second entities, and assigning a number of first cost values to each of a number of first edges connecting one of the number of first entities to one of the number of second entities in the first graph; adding a second graph to the first graph, wherein the second graph includes the number of first entities and the number of second entities, and assigning a second cost value to each of a number of second edges connecting one of the number of first entities in the first graph to the corresponding first entity in the second graph; and, matching each one of the number of second entities to one of the number of first entities based on the number of first cost values and the second cost values. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297361 | Enterprise Resource Planning System Entity Event Monitoring - A company is associated, in an enterprise resource planning system, with a plurality of business entities that each have at least one structured record used by the enterprise resource planning system to characterize the business entity. Thereafter, documents are obtained from a plurality of information sources that characterize events associated with each business entity. It is then determined, using pre-defined business rules, which of the events are pertinent to the company so that enhancement records can be generated for the events determined to be pertinent to the company. These enhancement records characterize the corresponding event and are linked to the structured record for the corresponding business entity. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297362 | SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention enables SLOs and their values to be determined in a system established for the purpose of providing services to users by accepting requirement values from a user with respect to desired SLOs, and presenting, as candidates which can be selected by a user, SLO groups satisfying those requirement values and SLO groups satisfying those requirement values as nearly as possible, and prompting the user to select a candidate. With this service level objective management system, an administrator inputs SLO names, SLO group names, the SLO names and target values for SLOs belonging to the SLO groups, a hierarchical relationships of the SLO groups, and the like. In addition, user-specified SLO names and requirement values with respect to those SLOs are received from user terminals. A combination specification means | 11-07-2013 |
20130304531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DETAILED PLANNING FUNCTIONS - A system, method and computer program product for performing detailed planning functions for businesses, enterprises and other types of organizations. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to define calculations based on data associated with an entity that may have scalar attributes for each entity, and/or a time series, and execution of the defined calculation generates time series result. According to another aspect, a calculation definition may be configured to be adjustable allowing a user to adjust parameter value(s) for each entity associated with the calculation definition. According to another aspect, a calculation definition may be configured to be discretionary allowing a user to attach or assign a calculation to each entity individually. According to another aspect, multiple calculations may be created and have the same name. | 11-14-2013 |
20130325533 | COMMODITY DISPLAY INFORMATION TABULATION METHOD, DATA STRUCTURE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE SAME - A tabulation method is provided which can associate the display state of commodities with sales. A commodity display information tabulation method includes: a step of cutting out a commodity image of a commodity from image data in which the commodity is photographed as displayed on commodity display shelves; a step of searching a commodity database for a commodity code corresponding to the cut commodity image; a step of determining the number of shelves of the commodity display shelves and generating shelf number information; and a recording step of recording the commodity code, commodity image position data on the cut commodity image in the image data, the shelf number information, and auxiliary information together as commodity shelf information. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325534 | TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND METHOD THEREFOR - Management server having a management table managing terminal management and control information management data models, in a common form The control information management data model manages control information for controlling the terminal. The management server executes plural processes. The first process is for creating the terminal management data model having the same data structure as that of the terminal management data model changed by the terminal. The second process is for creating the control information management data model, using control information regarding the terminal management data model based on an instruction from the management device. The third process is for registering the terminal management and control information management data models into the management table. The terminal executes a process based on the control information of the control information management data model acquired from the management server. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332209 | Disaster Assistance System and Disaster Assistance Program - To provide a disaster support system with which unified management is carried out at least from the management to the transport of disaster relief supplies. A disaster support system ( | 12-12-2013 |
20130339073 | INFLUENCING THE UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES IN A CIRCUMSCRIBED VENUE - Disclosed are various embodiments for influencing the utilization of resources in a circumscribed venue. In one embodiment, a computer-based optimization service identifies resources associated with a circumscribed venue. The optimization service determines the optimal utilization of the venue resources based on venue-specific and participant-specific variables. The optimization service transmits optimization data based on the optimal utilization to client devices associated with venue participants. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339074 | SYSTEM OF EVALUATING WORK CHARACTERISTICS AND PROVIDING WORKSPACE DESIGN SUGGESTIONS - A computer-based system and method are provided for assessing extrinsic and intrinsic work characteristics of people, and storing such data for evaluation of user pre-defined groups' Workstyles and using the Workstyles and additional survey data to develop design implications for the workspace in which such groups will work in an office environment. The Workstyles encompass multiple types of Workstyles which describe characteristics of where and how individual employees work, how much control they have over their work, and what kind of work they do. The design implications provide design guidance, which are expressed in relative terms and provide suggested guidance as to the development of the individual workspaces (workstations) for a group but do not dictate the specific design thereof. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346127 | SITE MAPPING SYSTEM HAVING TOOL LOAD MONITORING - A site mapping system for use with a machine having a work tool is disclosed. The site mapping system may have a locating device mountable on the machine and configured to generate a first signal associated with a three-dimensional position of the machine at the site, at least one sensor mountable on the work tool and configured to generate a second signal indicative of a characteristic of material being moved by the work tool, and a controller in communication with the locating device and the at least one sensor. The controller may be configured to determine a composition of the material based on the second signal. The controller may also be configured to update an electronic map of the site based on the composition and the first signal. | 12-26-2013 |
20140012612 | VISUALIZATION OF WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS FORECAST - A computer implemented warehouse operations forecasting system includes a series of user navigable displays hierarchically organized based on level of detail from more general to more detailed in terms of information presented. One of the displays in the series includes an indication of projected warehouse space utilization over a period of time in the future. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019180 | E-BUSINESS VALUE WEB - A method and system is provided to manage and track changes in enterprise architectures. The invention provides a hierarchical visual management tool to manage and update relational information within an enterprise in a controlled fashion. The relationship may be maintained in a database and displayed via graphical user interface. Enterprise assets are categorized into such categories as goals, customer values or requirements, capabilities, resources, and the like. A hierarchy is constructed so that relationships between these various categories are identified and captured using the invention. Weights may be assigned to each element of the categories so that any proposed change to an enterprise architecture may be viewed so that a value can be ascertained and compared between other values of other proposed changes. In this manner, tracking and management of evolutionary changes to an architecture may be accomplished using relational information. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025413 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR HORIZONTAL WELL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND OTHER RESOURCE CONSTRAINED OPERATIONAL PLANNING - Methods and systems for identifying potential simultaneous operational conflicts among a plurality of assets in a project. One method includes storing operational scheduling data for a project having one or more project assets, the project assets able to perform a plurality of operational activities at defined coordinates, in a scheduling database, and storing project-specific variables for the project in an external data source. A database query is then performed of the scheduling database and the external data source using a computer, returning all possible combinations of the operational activities, including defining a common reference, calculating distances from each defined coordinate to each other defined coordinate, and filtering the calculated distances to filter out potential operational conflicts, for example distances greater than one or more user-defined buffer distances. Potential simultaneous operational conflicts may be displayed in tabular or graphical form on a user interface electronically connected to the computer. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025414 | HEALTH ASSESSMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSETS - Systems and methods for scoring, ranking, and allocating mobile and/or fixed client assets. Embodiments of the present invention relate to the characterization or assessment of client assets with respect to the health of the client assets, the ranking of the client assets according to the characterization or assessment, and the allocating of the client assets to tasks or missions based on the ranking and/or mission parameters. | 01-23-2014 |
20140052483 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MEDIATING SERVICES - A computerized method for providing a service is described. The method may instantiate an instance of a process object. The process object may be configured to manage two or more business process objects of one or more backend systems to provide the service. The service may be performed utilizing the process object. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058774 | BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT USING A REAL TIME STRATEGY GAME - Aspects of the invention provide for business process management using a real time strategy game. In one embodiment, a system including a platform for business process management is provided. The system includes: a core operational real time strategy game for process improvement; a business process management system for receiving a business process model; and a real time data access and analytics system for tracking and analyzing real data of the core operational game and modifying, in response to the tracking, the business process model. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058775 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESSES AND INTELLIGENCE - A Global Supply Chain Intelligence system (“GSCI”) adapted to predict, discover and verify commodity trade flows. Creating and maintaining a dataset that tracks real and near real-time commodity flows as they happen as an input to the GSCI. The dataset used in a business intelligence process within the GSCI to arrive at an output, such as a predicted price behavior, a price alert, a risk alert, etc. A Commodity Flow Intelligence (CFI) component that collects and analyzes information with the timeliness, detail and accuracy required to track, forecast and predict supply and demand imbalances at the discrete flow level to aid market participants in making operational trading and investment decisions, for example, in connection with a financial services system or offering providing enhanced data and tools to promote market transparency. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067446 | TRAINING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION TRACES THAT CONTAIN REPEATED TASKS - A method for training a machine learning tool to generate a prediction in a business process includes receiving a business process model corresponding to the business process, the business process model including a plurality of tasks, identifying a cycling set at a decision point in the business process model, wherein the cycling set comprises at least one task that the business process model iterates through, and building a training table by determining a total number of sub-traces and a total number of variables from a plurality of execution traces of the business process model based on the cycling set identified at the decision point, wherein a new row of the training table is created for each of the sub-traces and a new column of the training table is created for each of the variables. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067447 | ERP TRANSACTION RECORDING TO API SYSTEM AND METHOD - An ERP client may automatically determine a list of one or more ERP database tables and fields that store the data associated with a particular business transaction in the ERP system. Various embodiments identify screen fields presented via the business transaction UI, map the screen fields to database-table fields, identify one or more application programming interface functions that operate on some or all of the same database-table fields, and report to the business user a list of some or all of the identified application programming interface functions. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPLIANCE EVENT AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT (CEIM) - Provided is a system and method for a continuous event and incident management approach to regulatory and compliance management, and business process management. | 03-06-2014 |
20140081683 | BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE PORTAL CLIENTS - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for integrating mobile portal client native application support into business processes. One computer-implemented method includes launching a business process, wherein the business process comprises a plurality of business process steps, monitoring, by operation of a computer, a back-end data environment for changes to data associated with the business process, transmitting, as part of a first business process step, business process data associated with the first business process step to a first application on a mobile client device, wherein the first application is a native application, and recording, by operation of a computer, indication data in the back-end data environment indicating, as part of a second business process step, that additional data associated with the transmitted business process data is to be displayed in a second application on the mobile client device. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081684 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROACTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF SELF-ACTIVATED SERVICES - A method includes monitoring a service provided to a consumer to determine an actual quality attribute of the service provided to the consumer. The method further includes comparing a potential quality attribute of an alternative service with the actual quality attribute of the service provided to the consumer to determine a difference between the potential quality attribute and the actual quality attribute. In addition, the method includes comparing the difference between the potential quality attribute and the actual quality attribute with a potential action preference of the consumer. The method also includes performing an action according to the potential action preference in response to determining that the difference between the potential quality attribute and the actual quality attribute satisfies a specific criterion defined in the potential action preference. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081685 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR UNIVERSAL TASK MANAGEMENT - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing task information at a user interface. A request to retrieve task information regarding a plurality of task objects from one or more task management data sources is received, and communication with the one or more task management data sources is authorized. Task information associated with each task object from the one or more task management data sources is received, and task information associated with at least one of the task objects as corresponding to data stored or configured to be stored in one or more data objects in the database system is identified. The task is exposed to the user interface. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081686 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER - Automating provider transitions is disclosed. An example method includes identifying groups in an infrastructure and corresponding information for each of the groups. The method also includes correlating information for each of the groups with predetermined objectives of a knowledge transfer. The method also includes generating reports based on the correlated information, the reports providing documentation of customer installations. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089024 | Control device for resource allocation - The present invention relates to a control device for providing a recommendation for at least one physical environment for an activity and for providing a recommendation for at least one activity in a physical environment. Such a control device is suitable for users working in flexible office environments and can thus be used for easily locating spaces that suit the users' needs for the current work task. Using historical data mined from embedded sensors in the offices in conjunction with a user's preferences as to how he likes a location to be, a suitability rating can be generated in real time. This enables users to find locations that can suit not only their tangible needs (i.e. luminaires, furniture, equipment, windows etc.) but also their intangible and personal needs (i.e. temperature, light level, busyness, noise levels, humidity, activity etc.). | 03-27-2014 |
20140095232 | Scheduling Appointments With Deal Offers - Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for scheduling services and other types of appointments in conjunction with purchasing and/or redeeming deal offers. Merchants may customize a scheduling system to provide scheduling capabilities and deal redemption capabilities to consumers interested in scheduling appointments. A consumer may use the scheduling system to select dates and times, merchant locations, and/or staff members, among other things, when scheduling appointments, and provide deal and/or other payment related information to the merchant. Merchants may use the scheduling system and consumer date received therefrom to track resources across numerous locations, keep apprised of their staffs' availability, receive/generate analytics data related to the affect deals have on their business, and gain a better understanding of their customers. The scheduling system may be integrated into the merchant's website and/or linked to deals offered by a third party promotional system. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095233 | EFFICIENTLY MODELING DATABASE SCENARIOS FOR LATER USE ON LIFE DATA - A method of modeling a scenario for use with live data in a production database may include selecting the scenario. The live data can be stored in the production database on a first computing resource, and production scenarios can be stored and executed on the live data using the first computing resource. The method may also include identifying a subset of the live data that are affected by the scenario, copying the subset to a second computing resource to create modeling data, running the scenario on the modeling data using the second computing resource, causing a display device to provide an output comprising a result of the scenario on the modeling data, receiving an input indicating that the scenario is approved, and storing the scenario with the plurality of production scenarios for use on the first computing resource. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095234 | Method and System for Managing Vehicle Travel - Methods and systems for facilitating efficient travel management are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments comprise a processor configured to make selections from among a plurality of vehicle travel modes based on a vehicle travel mode selection rule using, at least in part, received travel plan information. In a preferred embodiment, this selection can be based on any of a number of factors, including monetary costs and carbon emissions associated with different vehicle travel mode options. | 04-03-2014 |
20140108076 | RETAIL POINT SEED TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An automated seed treatment system is adapted for on-site operation at a retail seed distributor. A sealed seed-treater vessel is configured to apply a plurality of chemical treatments to a batch of seed based on a seed treatment recipe. A programmable system controller is electrically coupled to a pump controller of each of a plurality of pump-stations. The programmable system controller is configured to receive a material transfer indication from each of the plurality of pump-stations and issue commands to the pump controller of each pump-station in response to the seed treatment recipe. The programmable system controller is configured to collect operational data representing at least consumption of chemical from the chemical container at each of the pump-stations based on the corresponding material transfer indication during seed treatment and to provide the operational data to a remotely hosted information system located remotely from the site of the retail seed distributor and accessible to at least one third party that is distinct from the retail seed distributor. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114709 | ASSET DATA MODEL FOR RECURRING REVENUE ASSET MANAGEMENT - Data relevant to a predefined data object of a set of predefined data objects can be extracted from a unit of date received at a recurring revenue management system. The extracted relevant data can be populated to an instance of the predefined data object. One or more relationships between the instance of the predefined data object and at least one other instance of the predefined data object or a second predefined data object. The defining occurs based on a set of parameters associated with the predefined data object and content of the extracted data. An opportunity can be generated for a sale or renewal of a recurring revenue asset based at least in part on the one or more relationships, and the generated opportunity can be presented to a user. Related methods, systems, and computer program products are also described. | 04-24-2014 |
20140129269 | Forecasting Business Entity Characteristics Based on Planning Infrastructure - A planning infrastructure in an enterprise supports planning using characteristics of business entities and key figures collected from the activities of the business entities. The planning may incorporate predictions made on characteristics of the business entities that operate with the enterprise. The predicted characteristics may be stored in the enterprise's master data for those business entities, thus linking the planning results with the business entities. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOCATIONS OF SERVICE EQUIPMENT FOR PLANT FACTORY - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing the locations of service equipment for a plant factory. The apparatus includes a sensor registration management unit, a sensor ID issuance unit, and a location registration management unit. The sensor registration management unit performs a registration procedure that registers with a sensor network a plurality of service devices and sensors that are installed in the plant factory. The sensor ID issuance unit issues sensor IDs to the plurality of service devices and sensors registered with the sensor network, respectively. The location registration management unit performs a location registration procedure that registers information about the locations of the plurality of service devices and sensors based on the issued sensor IDs. | 05-08-2014 |
20140156323 | RESILIENCY ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A program resiliency management system having a resilience management engine that can generate a resiliency metric representative of how resilient a program is with respect to a particular event. The resiliency metric can be based on the characteristics of a program represented by program features and features related to the impact a particular event has on a program. The resilience of a program represented by the resiliency metric can be with respect to a program's capacity to resist an event, respond to the event, and recover from the event. | 06-05-2014 |
20140180737 | ABAP Unified Connectivity - A method, a system, and a computer-program product for providing a unified connectivity to a plurality of business processes are disclosed. A plurality of business processes for connection to a server are provided. A uniform configuration connection assembly for connecting the plurality of business processes to the server is generated. The uniform configuration connection assembly is configured based on at least one profile corresponding to at least one business process in the plurality of business processes and contains at least one connectivity artifact for performing at least one connectivity task for at least one business process in the plurality of business processes. At least a portion of the plurality of business processes to the server is connected based on the generated uniform configuration connection assembly. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180738 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT - An apparatus, system, method, and computer program product are disclosed for systems management. The method includes receiving user information and systems management data as machine learning inputs. The user information labels a state of one or more computing resources. The method includes recognizing a pattern, using machine learning, in the systems management data. The method includes modifying a configuration of a systems management system based on the labeled state and the recognized pattern. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188531 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COST ESTIMATION AND PAYMENT OF THE PRODUCT - A method has been revealed, which is applicable in the execution of tasks, characterized with the presumed use of products from more than one supplier during their realization, cost- setting and payment for electronic content and/or software and/or services, rendered by operators of computer-based systems, functioning in a common environment such as the Internet, cloudy environment, etc. The method provides the opportunity for cost-setting and payment, guaranteeing the free participation of various suppliers. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188532 | Multitenant Database Placement with a Cost Based Query Scheduler - Systems and methods are disclosed for placing tenants in a cloud based database server, by estimating with a processor a cost of placing a set of tenants on a server using a simulator; estimating a relative importance of different tenant's queries; and selecting an optimal server for each tenant based with a cost-based schedular to maximize profit using the simulator. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188533 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING OPERATIONAL DATA FOR A VEHICLE FLEET - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management system configured for capturing and evaluating vehicle telematics data, such as data captured from one or more vehicle telematics devices indicative of one or more vehicle dynamics, and service data, such as data captured from one or more portable data acquisition devices indicative of one or more service dynamics. In certain embodiments, the fleet management system is configured to associate captured vehicle telematics data with captured service data based on the contextual attributes of each, such as the time, date, and location of data capture. By synching the vehicle telematics data to the service data, the operational data can be uniquely assessed for various operational efficiencies. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING REQUESTS FOR POOLED RESOURCES DURING NON-CONTENTION - A computer system that provides pooled computing resources to clients may receive requests for resources, each of which includes a bid amount. While the supply of resources exceeds the demand, the system may adaptively determine a theoretical bid threshold for the resource pool that represents the predicted value of the lowest bid amount for which corresponding requests will be granted when demand for the resources exceeds supply. The determination may be dependent on a distribution of the bid amounts included in the requests for resources. The system may adaptively determine the lowest bid amount for which corresponding ones of the requests will be granted during non-contention dependent on changes in demand for the resources, the total capacity of the resource pool, and the theoretical bid threshold value, and may grant requests that include higher bid amounts. The use of some resources may be terminated in response to changes in demand. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING CULTURAL HERITAGE TOUR PROGRAM AND HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR TOURISTS - The embodiments herein provide a system and a method for creating a real time environment depending on the historical era preferred by a tourist. The method provides a tour program that provides a historical era experience to the tourists according to their preference. The method allows the tourist to choose the preferred historical era from a list of created historical environment setup. The tourists selecting similar historical era are grouped and allocated with a tourist guide. The tour program provides the tourists with real time event experience of certain situations. The tour program also entertains the tourists by providing situations that create a sense of excitement, fear and other emotions among the tourists. | 07-10-2014 |
20140200936 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND ANALYZING OPERATIONAL INFORMATION FROM A NETWORK OF COMPONENTS ASSOCIATED WITH A LIQUID ENERGY COMMODITY - A method for collecting and analyzing operational information from a network of components associated with a liquid energy commodity comprises the steps of: (a) measuring an amount of the liquid energy commodity in storage at one or more storage facilities in the network, and storing that measurement data; (b) determining a flow rate of the liquid energy commodity in one or more selected pipelines in the network, and storing that flow rate data; (c) ascertaining an operational status of one or more processing facilities in the network, and storing that operational status information; (d) analyzing the measurement data, the flow rate data, and the operational status information to determine a balance of the liquid energy commodity in the network or a selected portion thereof at a given time; and (e) communicating information about the balance of the liquid energy commodity to a third-party market participant. | 07-17-2014 |
20140214464 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING UTILITY CONSUMPTION - Methods and apparatus for monitoring and analyzing utility consumption according to various aspects of the present technology generally comprise collecting and storing utility consumption information, processing utility consumption information, and outputting the processed utility consumption information. Utility consumption may be collected by one or more monitoring devices, and may comprise the use of one or more utilities and/or power sources, the use of energy sources used to power equipment, the generation of one or more utilities, energy, and/or power, a detected and/or measured environmental condition, and/or any other measurable quantity and/or detectable state relating to the environment the monitoring device is configured to operate in or observe. Processing and outputting utility consumption information may present utility consumption information in an easily-understandable and navigable manner. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222477 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING A CAPACITY OF A RESOURCE - A method and associated systems for automatically identifying critical resources in an organization. An organization creates a model of the dependencies between pairs of resource types, wherein that model describes how the organization's projects and services are affected when a resource type becomes unavailable. This model may include a system of directed graphs. This model may be used to automatically identify a resource type as critical if unacceptable cost is incurred by resuming projects and services rendered infeasible when the resource type is disrupted. The model may also be used to automatically identify a first resource type as critical for a second resource type when disruption of the first resource type forces the available capacity of the second resource type to fall below a threshold value. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236650 | INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT - An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING, MANAGING, SHARING, AND VISUALISING ASSET INFORMATION OF AN ORGANIZATION - A system for semantically modeling relationships and dependencies between groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities according to an industry specific manner. An exemplary system includes a user interface device, a relational database and a processor. The processor receives relationship information and receives attributes with associated measurements for the groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities for the corporation from the user interface device. The attributes with associated measurements are formatted according the specific industry of the corporation. The processor generates a three dimensional (3D) visualization of the groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities and allows a virtual walkthrough of the 3D visualization as presented on the display device based on user entered commands from the user input device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140249876 | Adaptive Stochastic Controller for Energy Efficiency and Smart Buildings - Techniques for managing one or more buildings, including collecting historical building data, real-time building data, historical exogenous data, and real-time exogenous data and receiving the collected data at an adaptive stochastic controller. The adaptive stochastic controller can generate at least one predicted condition with a predictive model. The adaptive stochastic controller can generate one or more executable recommendations based on at least the predicted conditions and one or more performance measurements corresponding to the executable recommendations. | 09-04-2014 |
20140257891 | REQUEST ROUTING UTILIZING COST INFORMATION - A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing based on cost information are provided. A client request processing a resource identifier for requested content transmits a first DNS query to a content delivery network service provider. The content delivery network service provider transmits an alternative resource identifier in response to the client computing device DNS query. The alternative resource identifier is selected as a function of cost information. The client computing device then issues a second DNS query to the same content delivery network service provider. The content delivery network service provider can then either resolve the second DNS query with an IP address of a cache component or transmit another alternative resource identifier that will resolve to the content delivery network service provider. The process can repeat with the content delivery network service provider's network until a DNS nameserver resolves a DNS query from the client computing device. | 09-11-2014 |
20140278620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MARKETING ATTRIBUTIONS - Disclosed is an improved approach for performing opportunity association and attribution analysis. An advanced rules framework is provided to automatically infer associations between a set of marketing data and a set of sales data, allowing advanced revenue funnel analytics to be performed to measure marketing campaigns. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278621 | Method for Automatically Configuring a System For Managing Material Handling Assets - A facility management computer system is automatically configured when a material handling asset, such as a lift truck, is installed at the facility. A memory stores metadata comprising an asset identification and data specifying characteristics and parameters of the asset that are necessary or desirable in order to enable the facility management computer system to utilize the asset and perform functions, such as assigning work tasks, evaluating asset performance, and scheduling maintenance and repairs, for example. During asset installation the memory is electrically connected to facility management computer system. Upon that connection, the metadata are transferred automatically from the memory into the facility management computer system. Thereafter, the facility management computer system uses the metadata to manage operation of the material handling asset. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278622 | ITERATIVE PROCESS FOR LARGE SCALE MARKETING SPEND OPTIMIZATION - A facility comprising systems and methods for calculating, for a given budget, an allocation of resources to improve a particular outcome, such as revenue, profit, target miss, etc. The facility takes advantage of first-order derivate information and can decrease both the computation time and memory use in the calculation of suggested spends or allocations, such as the amount of marketing resources to be allocated to various marketing channels. The facility comprises techniques for 1) determining, for a given budget and a response model, resource allocations that will improve the modeled business outcome, 2) determining, for a given budget and revenue response model, resource allocations that will increase profits, and 3) determining, for a given budget, a given set of revenue response models, and a given set of revenue targets, resource allocations that will reduce total target misses. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CLOUD COMPUTING ABSTRACTION WITH SELF-SERVICE PORTAL - In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for a virtualization environment adapted for development and deployment of at least one software workload, the virtualization environment having a metamodel framework that allows the association of a policy to the software workload upon development of the workload that is applied upon deployment of the software workload. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278624 | System and Method For Automatically Disseminating Information And Queries Concerning External Organizations To Relevant Employees - A system and method for automatically disseminating information and queries concerning external organizations to relevant employees is disclosed. Embodiments provide a mechanism for automatically disseminating information and queries concerning an external organizational entity (such as a partner, vendor, or customer) to those and only those staff members in an organization for whom the information or query may be relevant. The method comprises filtering incoming and outgoing messages. The filtering identifies a domain name associated with a sender of each incoming message or a recipient of each outgoing message. The method also comprises determining whether the identified domain name exists in an index. Such dissemination may take place through the system automatically forwarding relevant email or automatically through an interface to be used by the initiator of the information or query. Employees may trigger the dissemination via tagging the relevant email with the domain of the external organizational entity. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278625 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VENUE PERSONALIZATION - A system for configuring a venue environment based on venue-specific observations is described. A controller receives inputs associated with one or more patrons of the venue. The inputs are analyzed to determine one or more environmental preferences associated with the patrons. At least one environment modification is identified based on the one or more environmental preferences. The venue environment is modified based on the identified modifications. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297343 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND ORGANIZING INFORMATION RELATED TO UTILITY ASSETS - A method and system for collecting information related to utility assets include determining a position of an underground utility asset by a location determining device; in substantially real time and by one or more processors, integrating location data from a GPS receiver with the determined position of the underground utility asset to provide information about depth, longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of the position of the underground utility asset; adding, by one or more processors, characteristics of the underground utility asset including a size of the underground utility asset, to the integrated data to generate one or more data records for the underground utility asset including the information about depth, longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of the position of the underground utility asset; in substantially real time, integrating landbase data with the one or more data records for the underground utility asset; and in substantially real time, displaying a scrolling map including the one or more data records and a portion of the landbase data on a display device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304016 | REGULATING ASSET USE BY USER ENTITY - Methods and systems for regulating use of an asset by a user entity. The user entity may be bound by an asset use agreement providing the user entity a right to use the asset subject to at least one use limitation. Regulating use of the asset may be carried out using at least one processor in communication with a sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to sense a condition associated with the asset relating to at least one use limitation. The method may include generating a violation notification message for a managing entity when the at least one processor identifies a violation by the user entity of the at least one use limitation. The managing entity may be the entity responsible for regulating the user entity's use of the asset. The managing entity may be remote from the asset and/or the processor. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304017 | PROCESS MODELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Providers and sourcing locations for recommended optimization processes of operational processes are evaluated based on provider metrics and sourcing metrics. Providers and sourcing locations for the optimization processes are recommended based on the provider and sourcing evaluations. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310037 | Skills, Expertise, Abilities and Interests Tagging in a Software Environment - Techniques are provided to perform skills, expertise, abilities and interests tagging in in a software (e.g., social networking) environment. Interactions of a user are monitored in a software environment in which information about users is collected based upon user actions. Textual information about or derived from an interaction of the user is obtained. A skill noun is determined from the textual information obtained for the interaction. The determined skill noun and a skill verb are combined to form a user skill tag. A profile of the user is updated with the user skill tag. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310038 | PROJECT TRACKING - A method of project tracking with a plurality of tasks, each task being associated with projected temporal data for the tasks, comprising, for a task,
| 10-16-2014 |
20140316830 | Synchronized Resource Planning - Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to receive an inbound message from a resource planning software application that is a member of a set of resource planning software applications. The computer may determine whether the inbound message conflicts with local data used by the set of resource planning software applications. The computer may determine whether the inbound message conflicts with outbound messages that are to be transmitted to at least one resource planning software application in the set of resource planning software applications. The computer may generate an outbound message configured to modify the local data used by the set of resource planning software applications in response to the data contained within the inbound message. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324490 | Distributed Farm Optimization System - The growing management system optimizes peak aggregate nutrients normalized against aggregate delivered cost for edible plants including vegetables, herbs and fruits. This growing management system enables each plant harvested for consumer maximized nutrient and/or flavor value, not for farmer or distribution profit maximization, with more specific objective of harvesting at time of immediate consumer consumption. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324491 | ASSIGNING PARTS TO STORAGE LOCATIONS IN A WAREHOUSE - Assigning parts to storage locations in a warehouse. Ratings of parts are determined based partially on pick frequencies of the parts. The parts with higher pick frequencies are determined to have higher ratings than parts with lower pick frequencies. Grades of storage locations in the warehouse are determined based partially on accessibilities of the storage locations to a loading dock. A programmed processor determines respective ranges of grades of the storage locations that will satisfy storage location criteria of the respective ratings of the parts such that the higher rated parts have narrower respective ranges of grades of satisfactory storage locations than the lower rated parts. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324492 | CONTEXT-BASED BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT - A method, and corresponding hardware and software implementations, including receiving a client login from a client user; loading contextual information including at least one contextual parameter; determining a business process according to the contextual information; and executing the business process. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324493 | DISPLAY AND MANAGEMENT OF A SERVICE COMPOSITION CANDIDATE INVENTORY - Facilitating the display and management of service candidates and composition candidates in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is disclosed. A described method includes identifying a plurality of service oriented candidates in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) service model. The plurality of service oriented candidates includes a service candidate and a composition candidate. The method also includes defining a relationship between the service candidate and the composition candidate and allowing for reuse of the service candidate and the composition candidate in view of the relationship. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330600 | Performance Driven Municipal Asset Needs and Sustainability Analysis - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for providing performance driven municipal asset needs and sustainability analysis. The method includes calculating asset health scores for a plurality of assets in an infrastructure. The asset health scores change as a function of time. The method also includes identifying prescription options for the assets. The identifying is based on the asset health scores. The prescription options include cost, value, and time for execution. A multi-objective optimization is applied based on the asset health scores and prescription options to identify at least a subset of the prescription options that may be implemented within a provided budget to maintain a sustainability threshold for an overall infrastructure health score. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND MONITORING THE DISPENSING OF FUELS - A fuel management system for use by operators of temporary and/or permanent inventories of vehicles such as vehicle dealerships. Fuel vouchers are issued by authorized issuing personnel to authorized recipients if a validation procedure is passed using a database incorporating employee and vehicle inventory information. At the time of delivery, the fueling station will verify the vehicle and individual presenting the voucher. If verification occurs, the authorized quantity of fuel is dispensed. The voucher and sales receipt are returned to the dealership for future auditing and report generation. The system stores information to enable reports to be generated concerning fuel voucher issuance, actual fuel usage and to detect fraud or misuse, allowing more effective fuel expense management. In the event a report generates a fraud alert, appropriate management personnel are immediately notified by email, text messaging or other means. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330602 | Method for Multi Entity Scheduling Object Visibility and Control - A method for enabling a non-authoring entity viewing access to view the data associated with authored, yet un-submitted, scheduling objects comprising of the identification of an entity, or the creation and selection of an entity code; and updating scheduling object. Some embodiments of the invention not only enable the ability of an entity to view the scheduling object, but also enable the selected non-authoring entity to modify the scheduling object. An embodiment of the invention is typically paired with or a part of a larger Transaction Management System (TMS). | 11-06-2014 |
20140330603 | Intelligent Reconfigurable Locker System - This invention involves the configuration of locker sizes during installation that can be reconfigured periodically to conform to the packages that arrive at the locker location. Locker control software can enable the efficient selection of locker size so that the locker bank can be optimized to the size of the packages that are delivered to the locker location. The reconfigurable lockers also may include a modular locker control module that can assist in the easy facilitation of changing the locker size. Also, the locker software can be flexible enough so that customers can have a direct communication link to the locker software that would allow the customer's mobile device to input authentication and access codes that would open up locker door(s). The locker software could also be enabled on the cloud providing an e-commerce goods seller, shipper or locker operator with information about goods that are shipped to locker locations and when customers stop by to pick up their goods or to return their goods to the e-commerce seller. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337070 | Tagging of Assets for Content Distribution in an Enterprise Management System - A content distribution platform may include processing circuitry having a processor and memory. The memory may store a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library. The processor may be configured to enable assignment of tags to the food preparation assets. Each tag may define an association between a respective one of the assets and a characteristic of the respective one of the assets to enable the content distribution platform to distribute the content items on the basis of the tags. | 11-13-2014 |
20140343980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE APPLICATION REQUESTS OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES - Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling users to request information or services relating to a physical facility. One method includes receiving, from a device associated with a user, one or more of: a request to receive information about an asset or component of the facility, and a request to receive maintenance of an asset or component of the facility, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with the user and an identifier associated with the asset or component of the facility; accessing, based on the request, a database storing one or more user identifiers and one or more identifiers associated with a plurality of assets or components of the facility; and transmitting, to the device associated with the user, either a presentation of information about the asset or component of the facility, or a representation of a ticket for initiating maintenance of the asset or component of the facility. | 11-20-2014 |
20140343981 | REAL TIME VEHICLE DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS - Disclosed is a platform for real time management of vehicle data in an enterprise. The vehicle data may be evaluated by one or more rules. Based on outcomes of the evaluation of the rules, alerts may be provided to a user of the platform and/or to drivers (operators) of the vehicles. Further, the enterprise's backend systems may be invoked to initiate activity in the backend system depending on outcomes of evaluating the rules using the vehicle data. Backend activity may include initiating purchase orders, updating backend system databases, initiating workflows in the enterprise, and other business processes. | 11-20-2014 |
20140343982 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO WORKFLOW MENTORING - Workflow mentoring. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: creating, by a first computer system, a workflow mentoring plan for a group of users by receiving, from a second computer system, a first plurality of workflow steps, wherein at least one of the workflow steps is selected from predetermined workflow steps; receiving, from a third computer system, a second plurality of workflow steps, wherein at least one of the workflow steps is selected from the predetermined workflow steps; determining, from the first and second pluralities and the predetermined workflow steps, a value indicative of relevance weighting of each of the first and second pluralities of workflow steps, wherein the determination is made based on frequency of repetition of workflow steps; and allocating a percentage of the workflow mentoring plan to each individual step within the pluralities of steps based on the value indicative of relevance weighting. | 11-20-2014 |
20140343983 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DEMAND RESPONSE AND DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES - A system and a method for optimization and management of Demand Response in real time manner is provided. The system employs a resource modeler, a forecasting engine, an optimizer, a dispatch engine, and a baseline engine. The system is built using open framework standards based signaling and data collection, and is offered under a “Software-as-a-Service” model to significantly reduce the cost of participation in demand response. It uses off the shelf information and communication technology (ICT) and controls equipment. | 11-20-2014 |
20140358603 | ITERATIVE PUBLIC TRANSIT SCORING - Computer-implemented methods for scoring and ranking transit stops and transit lines are provided. In one aspect, a method includes determining data and factors associated with a first transit stop or line and calculating a score for the first transit stop or line. The data and factors used in the scoring calculation may be a combination of the number of vehicle departures from the transit stop, the number of transit lines connected to the transit stop, a point of interest proximity factor, a population center factor, the number of trips on the transit line, the number of transit stops on the transit line, the number of interconnected transit lines and the travel distance of the transit line. The transit stop and transit lines scores may be iterated over each other. Systems and machine-readable media for scoring and ranking transit stops and transit lines are also provided. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358604 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF SOFTWARE USAGE - In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving metadata representative of usage of a component of a system; generating, based on the received metadata and a model, a three-dimensional representation of the usage of the system including at least one of the component and a structure of the component, the model based on a geographic entity; and providing the generated three-dimensional representation as a page for presentation. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also provided. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372159 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF GROUP INTERACTION - At least one aspect of this invention relates to a system, apparatus, and method for optimizing the interaction of large groups of people, such as, but not limited to large numbers of students enrolled in massive open online courses (MOOCs) or large audiences. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379395 | STATE-BASED DECENTRALIZED HARDWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT - State-based decentralized hardware asset management comprises managed assets and a manager, both of which comprise information about the other. If a managed asset is replaced, communications are exchanged between the manager and the replacement asset so that each can obtain identifying information about the other. If the asset manager is replaced, initially, the replacement asset manager can broadcast a request for identifying information to the assets it is managing. Additionally, periodic communications between the assets and the manager request, from each asset, identifying information of the manager. To ensure that each asset recognizes the replacement asset manager, a voting process is utilized. An asset manager also maintains state information for each asset informing subsequent action to be undertaken by the asset manager with respect to each such asset and enabling the asset manager to optimze its operation, including by avoiding actions and communications incompatible with current asset states. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379396 | Carbon Dioxide Emissions Optimized Secure Cloud Computing - Systems and method for deploying CO | 12-25-2014 |
20150019275 | OPTIMIZING A SELECTION OF DEMAND RESPONSE RESOURCES - A system that fulfills a requirement for optimizing and automating a process of demand response (DR) resource selection for DR events by utilizing a scoring function that can be easily applied against each individual resource to create a ranking of each resource. The scoring function may take into account both the capabilities and the costs associated with using the resource. In other words, the DR resource may have a set of attributes that are used as factors in the scoring function. Furthermore, the scoring function may have a form that supports operations by the utility operator. The selection process may then be easily automated by simply selecting enough of the highest ranked resources that satisfy the load objectives of the DR events. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019276 | Method for Computer-Assisted Determination of the Usage of Electrical Energy Produced by a Power Generation Plant, Particularly a Renewable Power Generation Plant - A method for computer-assisted determination of usage of electrical energy produced by a power generation plant such as a renewable power generation plant is provided. The method uses a plurality of neural networks having a different structure or being learned differently for calculating future energy amounts produced by a power generation plant. To do so, the energy outputs of the power generation plant forecasted by the plurality of the neural networks are used to build histograms. Based on the histograms, energy amounts for different confidence levels describing the likelihood of the availability of the energy amount are determined, and different uses are assigned to different energy amounts. Energy amounts having a higher likelihood of availability in the future are sold at higher prices than other energy amounts. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019277 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING LUMPING SERVICES MANAGEMENT - One or more embodiments provide for automated management of lumping services. A method includes managing collection of on-site facility lumping services data. Payment collection is managed for the lumping services. Customer integrated file uploads containing data elements for field operations related to the lumping services is provided. Automated check-in and check-out of drivers at facilities for tracking lumping services is provided. Purchase orders for the lumping services are scheduled. Fee assessment for the purchase orders is performed. A determination is made for an initiated refund request for one or more of the purchase orders. Granted refund requests are dynamically processed for the one or more purchase orders. One or more status displays for the lumping services is provided. | 01-15-2015 |
20150032488 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PRIORITIZED DATA - A system for computing personal protective equipment (PPE) recommendations, including a plurality of client computers, where each client computer in the plurality of client computers, uses a processor, for receiving and storing corporate information of a corporate organization and PPE needs associated with the corporate organization; and for receiving and storing a plurality of benchmark data describing a current PPE usage for at least one application of the PPE within the corporate organization; and a server, remotely located from the plurality of client computers and connected to the plurality of client computers via a network, for identifying a selected PPE by performing an analysis based on the corporate information and the benchmark data wherein the analysis compares characteristics of a plurality PPE against characteristics of the at least one application and provides a priority ranking of importance for the plurality of characteristics required for the at least one application. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039360 | DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT FOR ENTERPRISE COMPUTING - Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to managing dependencies among software components executed in enterprise computing environments, for example. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039361 | Techniques for Managing Snow Removal Equipment Leveraging Social Media - Techniques that leverage social media to proactively respond to inclement weather conditions such as snow that affect road conditions and, for example, coordinate snow removal from the roads are provided. In one aspect, a method for sharing road condition information is provided. The method includes the following steps. Data is collected from vehicles related to road conditions at various locations. The data is stored in an off-vehicle system. The data is processed to determine what type of maintenance activity is needed based on the road conditions. The maintenance activity and the locations are provided to dispatchers to enable routing of municipal vehicles to the locations to address the road conditions. A system for sharing road conditions is also provided. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039362 | ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DEPLOYING RESOURCES - A system and method for allocating drivers to procure targets, such as automobiles. These targets are then transported to a desired drop-off destination. The entire system is automated, such that a requestor may hire drivers that are certified by the system and would satisfy requirements associated with the target, such as proper driver's license and location of the driver relative to the target. The system is powered by an internet based mobile application that is designed to match individual drivers to auto dealers, auction houses, driving transport companies and other businesses and individuals (“requestors”) seeking to move automobiles, goods, services, tasks, etc. from one location to another. The system has been designed to find, organize, and manage drivers and all aspects of the trip on a real time basis and reduce the cost of the existing system. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046205 | PALLET - A material handling apparatus including pallets developed to operate in radio frequency rich environments. Pallets are provided having at least one large compartment capable of enclosing at least one electronic device or a package populated with a plurality of devices. The devices include RFID pallet tags that communicate with RFID item tags and RFID beacon tags positioned within distributed RFID networks. The devices include sensors to monitor pallet conditions to which a pallet management system is responsive. The devices include wireless transceivers for communicating indicative information through LAN, WLAN and Cellular communications networks. An antenna array operating on different radio frequency signals is provided. The apparatus includes a power resource in order to facilitate long term autonomous operation. | 02-12-2015 |
20150051930 | APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SALES SUPPORT SYSTEM - An application development sales support system for a mechanism in which IT vendors and other entities provide system development environments as services by means of cloud computing environments for providing support in providing suitable business materials at suitable timings in accordance with development statuses of clients utilizing the development environments as sales activities. The application development sales support system includes: a development status extracting unit for acquiring information of development statuses related to developments of application programs by the clients using the development environment from the development environment and recording them on a development status recording device; and an evaluation/analysis unit for outputting information related to corresponding specific sales instructions based on information of the development statuses of the clients recorded on the development status recording device when pieces of information match previously set rules. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058052 | Map Based Routing from Bill of Materials - A method and system includes a bill of materials stored on a computer readable storage device, listing multiple components to be assembled. A mapping table is stored on a computer readable storage device having rows listing attributes of components of the bill of materials and a routing operation attribute identifying work centers or another unique attribute. A plurality of routing templates stored on a computer readable storage device, the routing templates identifying work centers and routing operations between work centers. A route generator utilizes the mapping table to map components from the bill of materials to a routing template and its operations. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066552 | CREATION OF EVENT TYPES FOR NEWS MINING FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING - An event type generator may provide a training set for classifying documents with respect to an event type. The event type generator may include a request handler to receive the event type and at least one example document, a text analyzer to extract first entities from the at least one example document, and a result manager to execute a first search against an indexed corpus of documents, to obtain first search results, and further to receive at least one selected document from the first search results. The request handler may extract second entities from the at least one selected document, and execute a second search against the indexed corpus of documents, to obtain second search results. The event type generator may thus provide the at least one example document, the first search results, and the second search results as the training set. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-TENANT SERVICE CATALOG FOR A SOFTWARE DEFINED CLOUD - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073844 | GENERATING MULTIPLY CONSTRAINED GLOBALLY OPTIMIZED REQUESTS FOR PROPOSAL PACKAGES SUBJECT TO UNCERTAINTY ACROSS MULTIPLE TIME HORIZONS - A method, system and computer program product for determining an optimized set of sales events for a company. The method including the steps of if a likelihood of the company being awarded the sale is greater than a predetermined probability: determining a weighted profitability from being awarded the sale; determining unavailability costs and penalties associated with providing the resource package if resources within the package are unavailable; determining a weighted overall cost by assigning weights to the costs and penalties of the resources in the resource package and the unavailability costs and penalties; selecting an optimized mathematical set of sales events to be followed up, based on the weighted overall cost relative to the weighted profitability from being awarded the sale. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073845 | WIRELESS COVERAGE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN - A system and method for wireless communication network deployment. The system includes a computer having a processor and memory and a plurality of interfaces including: a building data interface, a network design interface, and a project management interface. The building data interface is configured to receive and process, by the computer, building data, network data, network KPI's and financial data and generate, by the computer, a model of obstacles and their conglomeration within the environment of interest (digitized building model). The network design interface is configured to generate, a network design based upon the digitized building model and the network KPI's and to analyse, by the computer, interaction between the network model and the model of the obstacles and their conglomeration within the environment of interest. The project management interface, configured to schedule, by the computer, the projects, and automatically generates tasks and plans resources based upon the network design. A digitized building model is generated by the invention through data inputs into the system and stored in the data store. The digitized building model is created by the network design interface. The controller provides an interface between the interfaces and the data store. The data used between the interfaces is accessible in a standardized manner. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081356 | DYNAMIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BUSINESS REPORTS - Technologies are generally described for providing dynamic report views of multi-dimensional business data. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system may facilitate data collection of user requested data for a dimension, such as a time interval, and presentation of the data in a data report. The data report may initially display an initial granularity of the data displaying the requested dimension. During data collection for the requested data, multiple dimensions of data related to the requested data may also be collected, and the data for the additional dimensions may be rendered in the background to enable the data to be dynamically presented in the report upon request by a user without having to retrieve new data. The user may select to view one or more additional intervals of data on the initial data report, and the data report may automatically refresh to display the selected data intervals. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081357 | MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a business system that provides information about a report to a mobile communication terminal, a processing load required for a data search is reduced, and valid information is rapidly output. A mobile terminal management server run by enterprise resource planning includes a process flow data table that stores process flow data including various kinds of data related to a process flow including a plurality of business processes, and provides a condition designation screen used to designate a search condition (manufacturing order number) according to a request from a mobile terminal, searches for process data including an item related to production management of a product represented by an accepted search condition with reference to the process flow data table, generates production management information matching the designated search condition based on the searched process data, and provides the production management information to the mobile terminal. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081358 | MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a business system that provides information about a report to a mobile communication terminal, a processing load required for a data search is reduced, and valid information is rapidly output. A mobile terminal management server run by enterprise resource planning receives and accepts a designated search condition from the mobile terminal, searches for process data including an item related to inventory management of a product represented by the accepted search condition with reference to process flow data stored in a process flow data table, generates quantity data representing a quantity related to an inventory of a product based on the searched process data, generates inventory-related data including the generated quantity data, generates inventory management information including inventory transition of the product represented by the designated search condition based on the inventory-related data, and provides the generated inventory management information to the mobile terminal. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081359 | OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH OPERATOR PERFORMANCE MONITORING - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a fleet management system that assists a fleet, such as a landscaping crew, forestry company, grounds care manager, or the like, with management and monitoring the fleet's collection of outdoor power equipment, like lawn mowers, trimmers, chainsaws, and/or the like, and the operators of the outdoor power equipment. In this regard, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for automatically gathering data about one or more pieces of outdoor power equipment and one or more human operators of the equipment, processing the data into more useful data and data formats, and providing useful feedback, data, and tools to users of the system to assist with management of one or more fleets. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088565 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOGISTIC MANAGING AND STORAGE MEDIA WITH LOGISTIC MANAGING FUNCTION - In a logistic managing system of a sever connectable with an ERP, includes a storage stores at least one logistic price; a first obtaining module obtains information of a shipment according to a manual operation; an analysis module generates a logistic expense sheet according to the logistic price and the information of the shipment; a recording module records the logistic expense sheet into the ERP. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088566 | Retail Deployment Model - A method of determining and optimizing the location of a new insurance agency is disclosed to increase market penetration of underrepresented markets. The method comprises the use of a scoring algorithm to rank various geographic regions or related zip codes. The scoring algorithm may be implemented by a location modeling system based on variables selected by a user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095074 | EMPLOYMENT RELATED INFORMATION CENTER ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS ELECTRIC VEHICLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY TRANSFER - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically tracking employment information at least in part associated with one or more employees as users of one or more electric vehicles and at least in part related to wireless electrical energy storage charging for vehicular propulsion of the one or more electric vehicles. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095075 | Method, Apparatus and System for Automated Funding - Embodiments herein provide for performing an automated transaction. A request for funding is received. A request processing is performed in response to said request. The request processing comprises routing said request to a approval unit, determining by said approval unit that said funding is authorized, and determining that sufficient amount of funds are available for providing said funding. The funding is either approved or denied said funding based upon said request processing. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095076 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A REPORT - Embodiments herein provide for a method, system, and apparatus for automatically providing a report. Data associated with an activity relating to a user of an account is received. A determination is made as to whether the activity relates to funding of the account. In response to the activity relating to the funding, a determination is made as to whether the data indicates that a report is to be automatically generated based upon a predetermined rule. The report is automatically generated based upon determining that the data indicates that the report is to be automatically generated. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100356 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for the automatic creation of a relationship management system is described. The method may include receiving a request from a user to create a relationship management system, and receiving specification of one or more electronic communication systems and user access credentials that provide access to each of the corresponding accounts. Furthermore, the method may include obtaining past electronic communications using the received user access credentials and analyzing the past electronic communications to extract contact data. The method may also include creating the relationship management system for the user and adding the contact data as contacts associated with the user in the created relationship management system. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100357 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOUD DATA LOSS PREVENTION INTEGRATION - A system, method, and computer readable medium is provided to provide an integrated storage system. For example, an embodiment may detect, by an enterprise computer system, an activity notification from a cloud service that stores data on behalf of an enterprise. The activity notification may specify a file name involved in an activity performed by the cloud service (e.g., creating or modifying a file). The enterprise computer system may then download a file (or contents thereof) from the cloud service using the file name specified by the activity notification. After downloading the file, the enterprise computer system may analyze the file against a data loss prevention rule. Based on an outcome from the data loss prevention rule, the enterprise computer system may communicate an action response to the cloud service. The action response may direct the cloud service to perform an action on the file stored by the cloud service. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100358 | METHOD AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM OF PROVIDING AGRICULTURAL PEDIGREE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS WITH INTEGRATED FARM EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF THE SAME FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE - A method and associated system for establishing an agricultural pedigree for at least one agricultural product with integrated farm equipment comprises the steps of: a) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of data relating to at least one of the agricultural product's production, harvesting, distribution, processing and consumption, from at least one and preferably from multiple sources; b) Inputting one or more contemporaneous inputs into the information storage device over time throughout at least the production of the agricultural product, wherein the inputting includes automated contemporaneous uploading of inputs from farm equipment engaged in the production of the agricultural product; c) Storing and said data; and d) Providing access to at least a portion of said data via the open communication network. The method may further include predicting at least one sustainability measurement of the agricultural product utilizing said data | 04-09-2015 |
20150106140 | ZERO DOWNTIME MAINTENANCE WITH MAXIMUM BUSINESS FUNCTIONALITY - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-level user interface theming. One computer-implemented method includes instantiating a shadow system and database schema for a new version software application in a shared database, the shadow system database schema containing aliases pointing to tables instantiated in a production database schema, instantiating a bridge database schema containing aliases pointing to each database table within the production database schema, preparing a bridge sub-system connected to the bridge database schema aliases, replicating database tables within the production database schema, for use by the bridge sub-system and adjusting the original database tables for structure and content consistent with the new version software application, deploying an upgrade sub-system and tools to complete adjustment of structure and content of the original database tables, and connecting an instantiated instance of the new version software application to adjusted database tables. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PESTICIDE DISTRIBUTION AND PROVIDING PESTICIDE PEDIGREE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION - A method for controlling pesticide distribution for at least one grown agricultural product comprises the steps of: a) defining a grid for the land in which the grown agricultural product is to be harvested; b) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of real time data specific to each grid relating to at least one of the grown agricultural product's production from at least one source; c) Inputting said data into said information storage device; and d) utilizing said data as at least: one of a real time decision making tool and a predictive modeling tool to ascertain which section within the grid designation unit need the application of the pesticidal compound. The method may further include the step of maintaining a pesticide pedigree for the grown agricultural products throughout production and distribution of the agricultural product via the open communication network. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106142 | FEDERATED ACCESS - A federation system operating in a first enterprise includes a configuration server and a database for creating and storing federation configuration data and a federation registrar having an interface for dealing with a second enterprise seeking to federate. In the system the second enterprise connects to the federation registrar, negotiation takes place concerning details of federation, agreement is reached, configuration is stored in the configuration database, and the second enterprise is then coupled to the first enterprise through a pair of federation proxy interfaces, one at the first enterprise and one at the second enterprise, the proxy interfaces configured by details of the federation. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112741 | REAL TIME MAP RENDERING WITH DATA CLUSTERING AND EXPANSION AND OVERLAY - Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120348 | FITNESS FACILITY EQUIPMENT USAGE CONTROL SYSTEM - A system and method manage distribution of fitness equipment units based upon automatically collected usage information for the fitness equipment units. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127395 | MANUFACTURE INSTRUCTION DATA MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MANUFACTURE INSTRUCTION DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A manufacture instruction data management server includes a manufacture instruction data DB storing manufacture instruction data, supplies a narrowing condition designation screen for designating narrowing conditions in accordance with a request from a user terminal, receives narrowing conditions designated on the narrowing condition designation screen from the user terminal, creates a production table screen corresponding to the narrowing conditions as narrowing result data, and supplies the created narrowing result data to the user terminal as narrowing results. The production table screen contains an element display area where a designated time range, and allotment destination information corresponding to the designated allotment destination item are displayed as elements of a table, and contains a mesh data display area where mesh data containing article detail information about an article item is displayed in a section for corresponding elements for each manufacture instruction data. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134382 | INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF WORKLOADS - Resource capacities and workloads are calculated and scaled for a set of resources, over time. Workloads that exceed capacities for the resources are identified and displayed against the scaled capacities for the resources, and suggested solutions that match workloads to capacities are generated. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134383 | GRANULAR ASSET TRACKING USING LANDMARK TAGS - An example method of asset tracking includes receiving, from each of one or more positioning devices, a corresponding position identification (ID) value, determining a tier value associated with each received position ID value, determining asset position information based on each received position ID value and each determined tier value, and transmitting the determined asset position information to a receiver. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES - Disclosed is a system for updating probability data of target object property. The system comprises a database for storing probability data, a property object data of a first target object, a property object data of a second target object, a list of actions and a cost of actions. The system also includes a processor having an executable code configured to define a first probability of accuracy of a property object data of a first target object, define a second probability of the first target object having a negative effect on a second target object, calculate a combined probability from the first probability and the second probability and use the combined probability to select to which at least one of the target objects to allocate resources, and update the first probability and the second probability in the database based on the action performed with the allocated resource. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOUD-BASED DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to systems and methods for cloud-based digital asset management. In some embodiments, the cloud-based digital asset management accesses one or more digital asset platforms. Digital assets are collected from these platforms. The digital assets include metadata and may be designated as pending. A user has the ability to update the digital assets status to an approved status. The approved digital assets may then be published to digital asset platforms. Publishing may be performed as a one-click publishing if the user ID is linked to one or more social media accounts. Publishing may also be performed batch wise. The digital assets may also be organized into playlists to facilitate digital asset management and publishing. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BENCHMARKING INTERNAL SUPPLIER DIVERSITY GOALS - Apparatus, methods and media for benchmarking diverse spend opportunities are provided. A method according to the invention preferably includes receiving financial data corresponding to entity diverse spend and financial data corresponding to total entity spend. The method may further include sorting the data corresponding to NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code. The method may further include allocating an NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code in the first column of a spreadsheet, allocating the data corresponding to entity diverse spend (“ds spend”) in the second column, allocating the data corresponding to entity total spend (“t spend”) in the third column; and place the following equation in each of the cells of the fourth column: =(ds spend/t spend)*100. The method may further include displaying a list of the percentages of entity diverse spend (“ped(s)”) for each NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code based on the information in the fourth column. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149225 | Automatically Determining Targeted Investigations on Service Delivery Incidents - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for automatically determining targeted investigations on service delivery incidents are provided herein. A method includes creating an incident profile for a given set of incidents, wherein the incident profile comprises one or more details associated with the given set of incidents; matching the created incident profile with one or more existing class profiles associated with one or more incident investigation classes based on a comparison of the one or more details associated with the given set of incidents to the one or more existing class profiles; identifying one incident investigation within the one or more existing class profiles matching the created incident profile that most closely matches the created incident profile; and generating a recommendation to create an investigation for the given set of incidents based on the one incident investigation within the one or more existing class profiles. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294247 | METHOD OF MANAGING BUSINESS DESCRIPTION, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of managing a business description, the method includes: monitoring an editing state of each of a plurality of business description information pieces stored in a storage device, each of the plurality of business description information pieces describing information indicating each of a plurality of items of work according to a work order; detecting currently edited business description information of which the editing state is in an editing process; detecting edited content of the currently edited business description information; generating, by a processor, related information which is related to specific business description information based on information indicating edited content of the specific business description information and business description information different from the specific business description information among the currently edited business description information pieces; and presenting the generated information. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294248 | POSITION-CENTRIC PERSONNEL ASSESSMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer-implemented position-centric personnel modeling apparatus, system, and method may be provided. A nodal hierarchy may be created to correlate with the personnel structure of a business enterprise, wherein each node may be a cyberspace representation of an individual within the personnel structure of the business enterprise. Attributes correlating to individual personnel in the business enterprise may be mapped to a respective node. Objectives may subsequently be tasked within the model and the nodal hierarchy may be rearranged based on the results. Results from the model may optionally be reflected by a business enterprise. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294355 | COMPUTER-BASED COMMERCIAL MARKETPLACE SALES LEAD SCHEDULER - A system and a method are disclosed including a computer-implemented sales Lead Marketplace System (LMS) configured to provide sales leads or information associated with customers to merchants. In various embodiments, the lead marketplace presents a user interface, implemented using various software modules running on a computing device, to customers to specify their identities and the goods and services they seek. The customer information is packaged as a sales lead and sold to merchants via the lead marketplace. The LMS imports consumer and merchant calendars to coordinate the service schedule and sends automatic reminders to both to ensure service is performed as scheduled. LMS may also collect various information about the merchants and the customers, such as customer satisfaction, merchant's quality of work, merchant's and customer's behavior, and the like to build a profile for each to allow matching of customers and merchants for high quality results for both. | 10-15-2015 |
20150310083 | MAPPING NON-RELATIONAL DATABASE OBJECTS INTO A RELATIONAL DATABASE MODEL - According to some embodiments, information may be received about a non-relational database object, such as an InfoSet, InfoSet query, or Advanced Business Application Programming (“ABAP”) function for an enterprise resource planning system. The non-relational database object may then be mapped into a relational database model, such as a model associated with a business intelligence platform. As a result, Structured Query Language (“SQL”) inputs from a business intelligence platform may be used create reports based on information in an enterprise resource planning system. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310360 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED SANITARY SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for managing a sanitary sewer infrastructure. In an embodiment, a plurality of representations of infrastructure assets are re-projected from a plane coordinate system into a geospatial coordinate system, such that each of the re-projected plurality of representations of infrastructure assets is associated with a geospatial coordinate. Each of the re-projected plurality of representations of infrastructure assets and its associated geospatial coordinate is stored in one or more databases. Subsequently, geospatial coordinates, collected in the field, may be received from one or more user devices, wherein each geospatial coordinate corresponds to a geospatial location of an infrastructure asset. A stored geospatial coordinate associated with one or more of the stored re-projected plurality of representations of infrastructure assets may then be adjusted based on the received geospatial coordinates. | 10-29-2015 |
20150332181 | Water Purification Unit - A system is disclosed for facilitating maintenance of water treatment apparatus at multiple locations and which include multiple components designed with an operational life that is greater than an apparatus exchange duration. The system includes tracking the usage of each component and determining an exchange date for an existing apparatus. A refurbished apparatus is sent to the location when the existing apparatus is at or near its exchange date. The operational life remaining for each component in the existing apparatus is determined based on the usage of the component. Each component that has operational life remaining that is less than the exchange duration for use as a refurbished apparatus is removed and replaced or refurbished so as to create a refurbished unit. | 11-19-2015 |
20150347934 | CHARGEBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD USING CHARGEBACK DATA STRUCTURES - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with chargeback systems are described. In one embodiment, a chargeback application includes instructions for reading a data structure that defines at least attributes that identify a resource type and resource items of the resource type, and chargeback rules for calculating a cost for usage of the resource items. The data structure is parsed to identify the attributes and the chargeback rules. Chargeback functions of the chargeback application are configured based on at least in part the identified attributes and the chargeback functions are caused to retrieve metered data related to usage of the resource items in a computing system. The chargeback application translates the retrieved metered data in accordance with the chargeback rules to generate a usage cost for the resource items. | 12-03-2015 |
20150363712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTINGUISHING INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM PROVIDER-SUPPORTED INFORMATION HANDLING RESOURCE VIA SYSTEM LICENSE - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system comprising a processor, at least one information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, and a BIOS comprising a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to initialize one or more information handling resources of the information handling system. The BIOS may be configured to record information regarding the at least one information handling resource, compare the information to a license for the information handling system to determine if the at least one information handling resource is supported by a provider of the information handling system, and responsive to determining that the information handling system is unsupported by the provider, initiate a remedial action with respect to at least one information handling resource. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363713 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDING FACTORY MANUFACTURING MODE TO NETWORKING DEVICES - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a first information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, and a second information handling resource for initializing one or more information handling resources of the information handling system. The second information handling resource may be configured to determine whether the information handling system is in a manufacturing mode and responsive to determining that the information handling system is in a manufacturing mode, expose an interface of the second information handling resource to the first information handling resource to enable the first information handling resource to perform one or more manufacturing mode-specific operations. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363714 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS OF ENERGY CONSUMING SYSTEMS - A method, system and computer program product for transforming real-time data of an energy consuming system into meaningful and useful data for optimizing Bus Intelligence and Analytics decisions of the energy consuming system, the method including collecting parameter point data from a primary sensor, collecting parameter point data from a second sensor, collecting parameter point data from a third sensor, processing the collected parameter point data from the primary sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor using a triangulation algorithm determining whether the sensor data triangulated, selecting the parameter point data from the primary sensor when the sensor data triangulates, selecting the parameter point data from the processed collected parameter point data from the primary sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor when the sensor data does not triangulate. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363716 | TILING PRODUCTION OF PACKAGING MATERIALS - Embodiments described herein generally relate to dynamically assigning product groups to production machines using production groups and producing product groups at a specified ratio using production groups. In one scenario, a computer system dynamically assigns a production entity to a product group based on properties for that production entity. The production entity is to be produced using a production machine. The computer system then dynamically assigns each product group to a production group, where each production group includes production machines that are available to produce production entities for product groups that belong to the assigned production group. The computer system also indicates that a production entity is to be produced using the production machines in the dynamically assigned production group. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOUD-BASED ASSET MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS REGARDING WELL DEVICES - A method for a cloud-computing system to communicatively couple with a remote terminal unit (RTU) that monitors and/or controls one or more operations a well device associated with a hydrocarbon well may include receiving, via at least one processor, a request from an asset attempting to communicatively couple with the cloud-computing system. The method may then include determining whether the asset is known and receiving one or more attributes regarding the asset when the asset is not known. After receiving the attributes, the method may include determining whether a profile that corresponds to the one or more attributes exists and sending configuration data to the asset based on the profile when the profile exists. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371161 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING, EVALUATING AND PREDICTING LAND USE AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION - A system and methods for analyzing land use and productivity. The invention relates to land use analysis through detection, monitoring and evaluating changes in particular land regions of interest and the analysis of changes in such land use as well as the forecasting of in-season productivity of vegetation in the region of interest. This system and methods is applicable to facilitate the automatic preparation of reports for a selected parcel of land that evaluates changes in land use and creates a quantitative report for one or more land regions of interest. This system and methods is useful to assess compliance with government regulations or standards regarding land use as well as provide a predictive land use productivity model used for commodity trading. | 12-24-2015 |
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20160026941 | UPDATING AND SYNCHRONIZING EXISTING CASE INSTANCES IN RESPONSE TO SOLUTION DESIGN CHANGES - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for case management in a production environment. An update to an existing case management solution running in a production environment is received. A collection of existing case instances created before the update was made to the existing case management solution is retrieved. Each case instance in the received collection of existing case instances is processed to add missing tasks to the case instance and to update a case instance structure for each case instance. Each processed case instance is saved. | 01-28-2016 |
20160048779 | CIP WASH SUMMARY AND LIBRARY - One embodiment includes a method for monitoring a CIP process previously performed. The method includes accessing CIP process data stored in a CIP library. The CIP process data includes CIP phase data associated with a plurality of CIP phases in the CIP process previously performed, equipment data associated with objects used in the CIP process during one or more of the CIP phases, and consumable data associated with consumables consumed by corresponding equipment in the CIP process. In addition, the method includes displaying at least a portion of the CIP process data, and providing a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to: organize the CIP process data into at least one of (i) a plurality of CIP phases or (ii) consumable data, and sort equipment data according to one or more of the plurality of corresponding CIP phases or corresponding consumables. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055432 | DETERMINATION OF A PLACEMENT MODE OF AN OBJECT IN A MULTIPLICITY OF STORAGE AREAS - Machine logic (for example, software) for determining a placement mode of at least one kind of objects in a multiplicity of storage areas are disclosed. A placement method includes the following operations: determining attraction factors of the multiplicity of storage areas, an attraction factor of each storage area indicating a capability that the storage area attracts attention of a customer; determining a spatial elasticity factor of the at least one kind of objects, a spatial elasticity factor of each kind of objects indicating an impact of a change of the storage areas where the kind of objects are placed on an attention degree of the kind of objects; and determining the placement mode of the objects in the multiplicity of storage areas, at least according to the attraction factors of the multiplicity of storage areas and the spatial elasticity factor of the at least one kind of objects. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055433 | DEMAND RESPONSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A demand response management system which may be implemented with demand response logic. The system may be used by utilities, independent system operators, intermediaries and others to manage operations of demand response programs relative to customers, clients, participants, and users of outputs from the utilities, independent system operators, and the like. Demand response logic of the demand response management system may provide demand signal propagation and generation from demand response events. | 02-25-2016 |
20160071032 | Personnel Resource Management System - The present invention is in the technical field of personnel management systems and methods for integration and streamlining business operations. More particularly, the present invention is in the technical field of computer, Internet and network based personnel management systems and methods for wherein unique dash boards are implemented to organize and streamline business operations. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078576 | CLOUD-BASED VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A fleet management system and method includes a monitoring system equipped in each of a plurality of vehicles, wherein the monitoring system includes a network interface to a wireless network and a location determining device; and a back-end system communicatively coupled to the monitoring system in each of the plurality of vehicles; wherein the back-end system is configured to: communicate with a plurality of passengers to provide real-time updates based on the monitoring system; and monitor and manage a fleet including the plurality of vehicles by an administrator based on data from the monitoring system. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086109 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PLANNING RESOURCES BASED ON PRIMARY AND ALTERNATE LOCATION RELIEF STRATEGIES - In a computer-based method of planning resources, a plurality of Location Relief Strategy (LRS) plan data sets are imported into a resource planning application. The LRS plan data sets are associated with a resource need. One of the LRS plan data sets is defined as a primary LRS plan and at least one other one of the LRS plan data sets is defined as an alternate LRS plan. A resource plan is generated within the resource planning application based on the primary LRS plan and/or the alternate LRS plan. The primary LRS plan and the alternate LRS plan may each correspond to a plan for installing and/or retiring resources in a geographic area. The resources may, for example, be resources for carrying telecommunications in a geographic area. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092801 | USING COMPLEXITY PROBABILITY TO PLAN A PHYSICAL DATA CENTER RELOCATION - A method and associated systems for using complexity probability to plan a physical datacenter relocation. One or more processors receive descriptions of each entity to be relocated, each of which is identified by a classification and by a tier that is associated with a level of complexity. Normalized random numbers are generated for each classification/tier combination and are each associated with a relocation scenario in which random complexity has a distinct amount of effect on the duration of time needed to relocate entities of the corresponding classification and tier. These numbers are then used to identify probable relocation times, each associated with one scenario, one classification, and one amount of complexity effect. These probable relocation times are then organized by classification so as to identify complexity-compensated probabilities that relocating all entities of a particular classification will require a specific duration of time. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092802 | DELEGATED PRIVILEGED ACCESS GRANTS - A privileged account management system is provided that controls the management and access of resources within the organization. Resources may include target systems and accounts of the organization. In an embodiment, the privileged account management system is configured to enable the creation of one or more resource groups. A resource group includes a subset of a plurality of resources provided by the organization. In certain embodiments, the privileged account management system is configured to define one or more groups of administrative entities within the organization and assign to each administrative entity in a group of administrative entities, a set of privileges on a resource group. In certain embodiments, the privileged account manager system may be configured to enable an administrative entity from a group of administrative entities to delegate a subset of privileges associated with a resource group to a user entity not in the group of administrative entities. | 03-31-2016 |
20160110663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUITABILITY SCORE FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ON BUILDING ROOFTOP - System and method are disclosed for producing a suitability score for installation of an energy management system on a building rooftop. In one embodiment, insolation data is obtained for geographic regions, including geographic region where building rooftop is located. A plurality of solar potential data sets for each geographic region are provided to obtain an insolation impact value for each of the solar potential data sets. The insolation impact value is calculated for each solar potential data set. The impact of the physical characteristics of the building rooftop on insolation is calculated. A threshold score above which the building rooftop is suitable for installation of the energy management system is assigned. | 04-21-2016 |
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20220138643 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus disclosed manages dispatch of a vehicle to a user. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to forecast a property of baggage (e.g. the sizes and the number of bags) that the user will carry when going out somewhere. Moreover, the controller sends offer information to a terminal used by the user. The offer information is information for offering dispatch of a type of vehicle that is suitable for the forecast property of the baggage. | 05-05-2022 |