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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2008
Applicants:
Thomas A. Chavez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Dagum, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas A. Chavez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Dagum, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method provides for an efficient unconstrained and nonlinear constrained optimization solution to a multivariate allocation of resources to meet manufacturing needs for uncertain multiproduct demand, where uncertainty is captured through a multivariate normal distribution over product demand (or more generally, through a member of the elliptical family of distributions).