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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2019
Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
John Brian Stewart, Charlotte, NC (US);
Dinesh Premalal Weerapurage, Morrison, CO (US);
Timothy Alan Carnes, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Sebastian Groer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Lahiru Sandakith Pileththuwasan Gallege, Knoxville, TN (US);
Chenlu Lou, Knoxville, TN (US);
salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by leveraging simplified travel time approximations. The use of first approximation travel time estimates allows for more rapid beginning of a process for electronically determining one or more high quality solutions to a routing problem as compared to having to wait for computation of second travel time estimates for every ordered pair of locations involved in the routing problem, thus allowing for more rapid determination of one or more high quality solutions.