Whitham, Curtis & Whitham, Kaufman; Stephen C. - US Patent Attorneys and Agents

Attorney: Whitham, Curtis & Whitham, Kaufman; Stephen C.

Number of patents: 24
Last date: June 20, 2000

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6078892	Method for customer lead selection and optimization A method for retrieving information from a database includes pre-scoring each of a plurality of records in the database to determine their relevance to a particular item of interest, specifying at least one trait corresponding to a type of information sou...	06/20/2000
6044361	Fast inventory matching algorithm for the process industry A fast computer implemented method generates near-optimal solutions to the multi-objective inventory matching problem by solving for multiple objectives simultaneously and generating multiple non-dominating solutions. The method implements a multi-assignm...	03/28/2000
6044357	Modeling a multifunctional firm operating in a competitive market with multiple brands A computer-implemented method for merging product marketing control, and product inventory control, based on funds availability and funds allocation from the finance division. The computer-implemented method generates a segment-level consumer choice model...	03/28/2000
6044356	Assistant for resource and demand trading A plurality of near-optimum solutions to allocations of resources to demand information are provided by consideration of different combinations of sources of resource information such as inventory and performance/production capacity of a provider and/or o...	03/28/2000
6044208	Incremental critical area computation for VLSI yield prediction An efficient method to compute critical area for shorts and breaks in rectilinear layouts in Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits. The method is incremental and works in the L.infin. geometry and has three major steps: Compute critical ...	03/28/2000
6035277	Approximation method for efficient resource allocation A method for finding fast approximations to an optimal operational state of a physical system, using an iterative procedure for converging to a solution of a Linear Program and yielding, in addition to a lower bound for an optimal cost and an approximatio...	03/07/2000
6025930	Multicell clustered mask with blue noise adjustments A technique which combines the advantages of blue noise and clustering obtains more pleasant "blueish" effects in the rendering of the grey levels for which the original multicell mask generates unwanted periodic representations. Such original multicell c...	02/15/2000
6021402	Risk management system for electric utilities A computer implemented risk-management system schedules the generating units of an electric utility while taking into consideration power trading with other utilities and the stochastic load on the utility system. The system provides the user with a tool ...	02/01/2000
6009407	Integrated marketing and operations decisions-making under multi-brand competition A computer-implemented method for merging product marketing control and product inventory control, generates a segment-level consumer choice model for a plurality of competing brands, and aggregates that to a market-level consumer choice model, then gener...	12/28/1999
6006202	Method to provide sensitivity information for lost-sale (R, s,S) inventory systems Sensitivity information about average lost sales and inventory levels of a lost-sale (s,S) inventory system with respect to the two decision variables s and S is used for "what-if" analysis and optimization of the decision variables. Computer software imp...	12/21/1999
6006200	Method of providing an identifier for transactions Transactions are conducted on the Internet, by telephone or directly with anonymity and privacy. A customer's shipping address is encoded by a multi-digit identifier which is stored in the database of a trusted third party, preferably the shipping company...	12/21/1999
6006011	Target patterns controlled error management A system and method to print grey scale or color images using fewer colors of ink than in the original image. This method distributes the error made at each point (due to the embodied approximation) to the neighbors of that point while obtaining some chos...	12/21/1999
5974403	Power trading and forecasting tool A computer implemented tool forecasts the spot price of electric power in a deregulated market and the amounts of power that may be traded in this market. Using generating capacities of multiple utilities, price functions, weather forecasts, and transmiss...	10/26/1999
5970464	Data mining based underwriting profitability analysis A computer implemented method of underwriting profitability analysis delivers the analytic process to a wide cross section of insurance decision makers. The underwriting profitability analysis system leverages an existing investment in databases and impro...	10/19/1999
5953228	Method employing a back-propagating technique for manufacturing processes A method capable of systematically determining the specifications of antecedent process steps subsumed in stages that unfold and move towards a specified final product requirements window. To this end, the method employs a back propagating technique that ...	09/14/1999
5946455	Model based error diffusion with correction propagation A printing method and apparatus takes into account the errors in the amount of black due to dot shape and size at the pixel where these errors occur, propagates corrections of these errors in order to preserve the logics of error diffusion, and permits a ...	08/31/1999
5943477	Microlocal calibration of digital printers A method and apparatus to calibrate a printer which do not depend on geometric assumptions on the printed dots. The method takes account of the fundamentally probabilistic nature of the process of printing any dot on some types of printers such as laser p...	08/24/1999
5917951	Clustered aperiodic mask A technique combines most of the advantages of both blue noise and clustering in generating a clustered aperiodic mask and using it in a dither array algorithm for halftoning. The method of halftoning of grey scale images utilizes a pixel-by-pixel compari...	06/29/1999
5912659	Graphics display pointer with integrated selection A threshold discrimination filter circuit compares signals output by a graphic input device such as an isometric joystick including strain gauges and a fixed resistance in a hierarchical voltage divider with threshold reference signals and corrects the ou...	06/15/1999
5831593	Low-power standby mode for a remote sensing device A battery powered sensing device using an analog sensor has electronic circuitry that maintains sensitivity and calibration of the sensing device during quiescent periods with very little power drain. In one implementation, a joystick is provided with a s...	11/03/1998
5822719	Performance-constrained component selection Apparatus and methodology solve a performance-constrained component selection problem. The method includes articulating a set of constraints comprising inter alia specifying particular processes to be performed in relation to an end-task, and comprising t...	10/13/1998
5770894	Parallel processing method having arithmetical conditions code based instructions substituted for conventional branches A computer implemented method performed by a processor having multiple functional units avoids branches in decision support codes by doing arithmetic instructions incorporating condition codes generated by compare instructions. The method comprising the s...	06/23/1998
5752072	Sorting scheme without compare and branch instructions A sorting scheme which does not require any compare or branch instructions is particularly useful for computers with multiple parallel functional units. Sorting two numbers or binary strings is performed using arithmetic instructions instead of convention...	05/12/1998
5751619	Recurrent adrithmetical computation using carry-save arithmetic An arithmetic unit keeps a result in carry-save form and uses this form of the result as an input to the next iteration in recurrent computations. The full adder in the recurrent path is eliminated by implementing multiplication by Y(i), where Y(i) is ava...	05/12/1998

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