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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2011
Evgeniy Bart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prateek Sarkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John T. Maxwell, Iii, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Evgeniy Bart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prateek Sarkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John T. Maxwell, III, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and system employing the same for optimizing an objective function are provided. The objective function assesses the quality of a candidate solution. One or more variables of an objective function are selected as pivot variables. Each of the variables include one or more candidate values. An upper bound function is generated from the objective function, where the pivot variables are held fixed. For each combination of the candidate values, one or more candidate solutions are searched using the upper bound function. One or more optimal solutions are selected from among the solutions to the searches.