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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2005
Applicants:
Julie W. Drew, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bin Zhang, Freemont, CA (US);
Shailendra Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Julie W. Drew, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bin Zhang, Freemont, CA (US);
Shailendra Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for product portfolio analysis includes selecting a set of solution points along a curve of order benefit as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio and performing a heuristic between an adjacent pair of solution points that approximates the curve between the adjacent pair of solution points. An apparatus that can perform the product portfolio analysis is also described.