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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2013
Applicant:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Donald E. Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
John David Allen, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06313 (2013.01);
Abstract
An approach is provided for scheduling work order tasks based on an optimization of available resources and an assessment of cost penalty functions for missing work order deadlines, including determining an estimated work order completion time for processing a plurality of tasks associated with a work order on one or more resources, scheduling the plurality of tasks in a processing queue based on the estimated work order completion time, and determining a value of a penalty function for violating a work order deadline.