Andrew J Davenport DeceasedGardenville, PA

6873967, Mar 29, 2005

Jul 17, 2000

09/617496

Jayant R. Kalagnanam - Tarrytown NY, US
Ying Tat Leung - Tarrytown NY, US
Andrew J. Davenport - Ossining NY, US
Juhnyoung Lee - Yorktown Heights NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F017/60

705 26, 705 27

A computer system provides one or more lists of product combinations to one or more shoppers over one or more networks. The computer system comprises one or more central processing units (CPUs), one or more memories, and one or more network interfaces to one or more networks. An electronic shopping assistant process implemented on the computer system receives one or more inputs of constraints from shoppers, sends out the inputs to one or more shopping list generating processes in one or more stores, receives one or more lists of recommended product combinations that satisfy the given constraints, and allows shoppers to view and select one or more product combinations from received lists. A shopping list generating process implemented on the computer system receives one or more inputs from the electronic shopping assistant process by using an electronic shopping list protocol, searches products in an online product catalog stored in a product database, computes one or more lists of product combinations that satisfy the constraints given in the input, and sends lists of product combinations back to the electronic shopping assistant process again by using the electronic shopping list protocol.

7702561, Apr 20, 2010

Jul 31, 2001

09/917818

Andrew J. Davenport - Ossining NY, US
Jayant R. Kalagnanam - Tarrytown NY, US
Ho Soo Lee - Mount Kisco NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06Q 40/00

705 37, 705 7, 705 8, 705 28, 705 36 R

A method is provided for identifying a cost-minimizing bid set in a reverse combinatorial auction subject to various business rules for all-or-nothing bundled bids. The method includes introducing a decision variable for each bid, introducing a counting variable to indicate whether bids from a supplier are chosen in an optimal bid set, modeling demand constraints for each item using the bid variables, modeling minimum and maximum numbers of suppliers based on the counting variables, introducing dummy variables to ensure existence of feasible solutions, for a given cost formulating an objective of choosing bids that arrive early based on an additional timestamped objective with the given cost level as a constraint, and introducing price modifications to handle the formulated objective of choosing bids that arrive early.

2012005, Mar 8, 2012

Sep 2, 2010

12/874979

ARUN HAMPAPUR - Yorktown Heights NY, US
HONGFEI LI - Yorktown Heights NY, US
ANDREW J. DAVENPORT - Yorktown Heights NY, US
SHILPA MAHATMA - Yorktown Heights NY, US
LEXING XIE - Yorktown Heights NY, US
ROGERIO S. FERIS - Hawthorne NY, US
WEI SHAN DONG - Haidian District Beijing, CN
ZHONG BO JIANG - Haidian District Beijing, CN
HAO WANG - Haidian District Beijing, CN
JING XIAO - Haidian District Beijing, CN
CHUNHUA TIAN - Haidian District Beijing, CN

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06Q 10/00

705 728

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.

2012031, Dec 13, 2012

Aug 8, 2012

13/569891

ARUN HAMPAPUR - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Hongfei Li - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Andrew J. Davenport - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Shilpa Mahatma - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Lexing Xie - Hawthorne NY, US
Rogerio S. Feris - Hawthorne NY, US
Wei Shan Dong - Haidian District Beijing, CN
Zhong Bo Jiang - Haidian District Beijing, CN
Hao Wang - Haidian District Beijing, CN
Jing Xiao - Haidian District Beijing, CN
Chunhua Tian - Haidian District Beijing, CN

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06Q 10/06

705 712, 705 728

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.

6611814, Aug 26, 2003

Jul 17, 2000

09/618100

Juhnyoung Lee - Yorktown Heights NY
Jayant R. Kalagnanam - Tarrytown NY
Andrew J. Davenport - Ossining NY
Ho Soo Lee - Mount Kisco NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1760

705 26, 705 27

A computer system and method uses one or more virtual wish lists of one or more shoppers over a computer network. One process extracts information from online address books or other personal databases, and creates lists of recipients for whom a shopper wants to purchase products. A second process obtains virtual wish lists of recipients by observing their visits to online stores, and other online behavior. Recipients are asked for permission to make this data available to other shoppers, online stores, and other Web sites. Recipients can modify their virtual wish lists, and selectively approve of their use by other shoppers, etc. A third process creates shopping lists for the recipients, and generates lists of recommended products for shoppers to buy for intended recipients.