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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Karon A Barber, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
David H Osterfeld, Birmingham, MI (US);
Kenneth L Burridge, Clearwater, FL (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364468 ; 364149 ; 364401 ; 364513 ;
Abstract
An expert system scheduler is disclosed which uses heuristics developed by an experienced factory scheduler. The scheduler uses these heuristics to generate schedules. Forward and backward scheduling is used at different stages of the schedule generation process.