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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2006
Llewellyn W. Bezanson, North Bend, WA (US);
Keith B. Ligon, Seattle, WA (US);
Girish S. Lakshman, Issaquah, WA (US);
Llewellyn W. Bezanson, North Bend, WA (US);
Keith B. Ligon, Seattle, WA (US);
Girish S. Lakshman, Issaquah, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A method and system for selecting a shipping method dependent upon a dynamic model of shipping activity. In one embodiment, a method may include detecting a given shipment event for which one of a plurality of shipping methods is to be selected, determining a current output state of a discrete event model representative of shipping method selections for one or more previous shipment events, and in response to detecting the given shipping event, producing a selection of a particular one of the plurality of shipping methods that mathematically optimizes an objective function, wherein the objective function is dependent on a cost of shipping associated with the given shipment event and on a weighted deviation between the current output state of the discrete event model and a target output state of the discrete event model.