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Facilitating commerce among consumers and service providers by matching ready-to-act consumers and pre-qualified service providers

A method and apparatus are provided for matching ready-to-act consumers and pre-qualified service providers. According to one aspect of the present invention, the Internet is used to attempt to solve communications problems and to achieve efficiency in Consumer-to-Business commerce transactions. Initially, a database of pre-qualified service providers is established. Then, a description of the consumer's needs may be extracted from a consumer using decision trees appropriate for the desired task. Subsequently, the consumer needs are packaged and presented to multiple service providers that meet a set of predetermined qualifications. The consumer needs may be presented, for example, by way of a set of heterogeneous communication devices depending upon preferences supplied by the service providers. For example, the set of heterogeneous communication devices may include facsimile, pager, mobile phone, home phone, office phone, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) unit, email, etc. The service providers may choose to submit a response for the consumer's needs or reject the task. After a sufficient number of responses have been received from the pre-qualified service providers, they are presented to the consumer. The consumer may then select from the pre-qualified service providers based upon one or more objective and/or subjective factors associated with the pre-qualified service providers. For example, objective service provider qualification information may be presented to the consumer along with the service provider responses. In addition, a database of consumer-generated service provider ratings and/or reviews may be maintained and made available for consumer queries.
Owner:SERVICEMAGIC

Method and system for traffic performance analysis, network reconfiguration, and real-time traffic monitoring

A method and system for traffic performance analysis, network reconfiguration, and real-time traffic monitoring and surveillance is described. Traffic performance analysis and congestion detection is achieved through discrete event simulation. The road network is translated to a graph. The translation is the result of the processing of a high resolution satellite or aerial image consisting of road extraction. In the resulting graph, road intersections are represented by vertices and road sections by edges. Edges have several properties such as the capacity of the section, presence of traffic signs and traffic lights, rate of generation (vehicles leaving parking), and rate of absorption (vehicles going to parking) Temporal simulation allows detecting congestions as well as congestion propagation. Real-time traffic monitoring consists of detecting abnormal traffic slowdowns. This is achieved by observing traffic with a camera. The video is processed to compute the optical flow which allows the computation of the traffic speed. Individual vehicle speed is also computed to detect speeding vehicles by comparing their speed to the nominal speed limit in the road section. The whole system can be grouped in a traffic control room or a traffic information system.
Owner:TAIF UNIV

Method and system for progressive picking

A method and storage and picking system for progressive picking of articles in accordance with new orders which define ordered articles with regard to a respectively ordered article type including an associated quantity, characterized by a picking warehouse in which a plurality of different article types are stored, the different article types forming an article assortment, wherein the picking warehouse has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of several days; a picking station for conventionally picking articles stored in the picking warehouse; a buffer warehouse in which selected article types are stored in storage units, and which has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of a few days, wherein the buffer warehouse is filled by the selected article types, which substantially originate from the picking warehouse, in accordance with a filling order which is redetermined based on data of old orders representing completed picking orders, and which defines the selected article types including associated quantities thereof, wherein the data of the old orders comprise ordered article types including associated quantities as well as associated order times thereof; a picking control; and at least one work station and a consolidation-buffer device, wherein the work station is connected to the buffer warehouse, and wherein, at the work station, the ordered articles are taken from the storage units, and are packed, or are taken and delivered to the consolidation-buffer device; wherein the picking control is configured for cyclic generation of the filling order, wherein the generation comprises the following steps: selecting the article types, which have been ordered frequently and in greater amounts in the past, for the buffer warehouse from the data of the old orders; determining article-type-specific buffer quantities for each of the selected article types; and generating the filling order, which defines the selected article types including the associated buffer quantities thereof.
Owner:SSI SCHAEFER PEEM
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