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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:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ranga Anbil, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Francisco Barahona, White Plains, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
705-8 ;
Abstract
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 approximation to the dual variables, a value representing an optimal allocation of system resources.