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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Roy I. Peterkofsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hema Budaraju, Fremont, CA (US);
Roger J. A. Goossens, Belmont, CA (US);
Atul Kumar Srivastav, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Vijay Pillarisetti, Fremont, CA (US);
Roy I. Peterkofsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hema Budaraju, Fremont, CA (US);
Roger J. A. Goossens, Belmont, CA (US);
Atul Kumar Srivastav, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Vijay Pillarisetti, Fremont, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer, for planning moves of freight automatically receives a plan containing a number of trips to be performed to move freight using vehicles, and partially releases only a portion of the plan for execution instead of releasing the entire plan. The plan portion that is released includes a subset of trips that are selected by the computer from among all trips in the entire plan. Thereafter, the computer simply repeats the just-described acts. Iteratively releasing portions of a plan allows the computer to be instructed to release early certain trips that are satisfactory. Trips that are sub-optimal are re-generated in a next version of the plan, based on changes in orders in the interim. The computer may also be instructed to release a trip even if sub-optimal, if its time-to-departure becomes less than an advance notice needed by a truckload service that is to execute the trip.
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