Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Services Corporation

Emptoris, Inc.

Rina Rotshild Schneur

Roger Lee Tobin

Raghavendran Sivaraman

Donald E Smith

John David Allen

Hui Liu

James H Drew

Avner Schneur

Ge Li

Charles H Rosa

Lawrence W Crom

An approach is provided for managing facilities (e.g., wire centers) based on weather vulnerability analysis. Data representing trouble tickets associated with a plurality of facilities is received. Weather information relating to the facilities is received. A determination is made of the vulnerability of the facilities to weather based on the data and the weather information. The facilities are prioritized based on the determined vulnerability. Preventative maintenance activities (as well as financial forecasts) can be performed for one or more of the facilities based on the prioritization of the facilities.

System and method for providing facilities management based on weather vulnerability

A system, method and computer program product are provided for assigning prioritized jobs at multiple locations to workers with the objective of maximizing the number of higher priority jobs assigned, with secondary objectives of minimizing worker travel time between locations and of balancing workload across workers. In doing so, the system, method and computer program product consider job data including job location, skills required, time required and additional job constraints, as well as resource data including worker location, worker skills, worker time constraints and additional worker constraints. The system, method and computer program product also consider travel time between various pairs of job locations and worker locations in order to optimize work assignments while minimizing travel time.

Dispatching prioritized jobs at multiple locations to workers

Systems and methods for core network topology router placement planning are provided. The systems and methods may use existing network data to create a data set and use the data set to optimize a network for the placement of routers.

System and method for core network topology router placement planning

There is assigned at least one first cost for expanding at least one link to a circuit-switched network that is part of a hybrid network comprising the circuit switched network and a packet switched network. All paths in the packet switched network are represented with a virtual link. A cost is assigned to the virtual link. An integer programming problem is solved to determine a number of links to add to the network, the integer programming problem having as inputs a model of the hybrid network and a demand forecast matrix.

Optimal expansion of a telecommunications network

A computer-implemented method for satisfying a purchase requisition includes receiving, from each of a plurality of candidate suppliers, a corresponding plurality of bids. At least one candidate supplier includes, with its bids, an offer of a business-volume discount that is triggered when an aggregate purchase of at least one unit of a first item and at least one unit of a second item is within a defined volume interval. An optimal award schedule for satisfaction of the purchase requisition is then determined.

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