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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2009
Applicants:
Chieh Hsien Tiao, Irving, TX (US);
David John Michael, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Chieh Hsien Tiao, Irving, TX (US);
David John Michael, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Southwest Airlines Co., Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A schedule for a network of transportation resources is produced by iteratively generating sets of variables for each market pair using an objective function and based on at least an identified range of permissible departure or arrival times for each market pair and spacing parameters. Each variable represents a different set of possible departure or arrival times for a particular market pair. The proposed schedule is built based on the generated sets of variables for each market pair and a set of constraints.