46 results about "Cost comparison" patented technology

An improved apparatus and method for comparing a plurality of rate plans on a net—net basis comprising a computer having a database, the database comprising rate plan characteristics for a plurality of rate plans; an input terminal operatively connected to the computer for entering data; a comparison program executing within the computer for comparing rate plans using the entered data; and an output terminal operatively connected to the computer for reporting the results of the comparison program is used to allow consumers to obtain true net cost comparisons of from a plurality of service plans from one or more service providers. Data are obtained from historical data or theorized and then normalized into appropriate per-second, per-block, or other categories for comparison for each of a set of categories describing the rate plans. Adherence to and influence of differing rate plan options are automatically calculated, and the net result of each rate plan is presented to the consumer for side-by-side comparisons. If an alternative rate plan is attractive to a service provider client, the client or its agent may opt to subscribe to that rate plan in place of the current rate plan, and the service provider notified accordingly.

A heterogeneous multiprocessor system including a plurality of processor elements having mutually different instruction sets and structures avoids a specific processor element from being short of resources to improve throughput. An executable task is extracted based on a preset depending relationship between a plurality of tasks, and the plurality of first processors are allocated to a general-purpose processor group based on a depending relationship among the extracted tasks. A second processor is allocated to an accelerator group, a task to be allocated is determined from the extracted tasks based on a priority value for each of tasks, and an execution cost of executing the determined task by the first processor is compared with an execution cost of executing the task by the second processor. The task is allocated to one of the general-purpose processor group and the accelerator group that is judged to be lower as a result of the cost comparison.

Unfilled prescriptions are submitted to a registry comprising pre-qualified pharmacies for a “reverse auction” in which the pharmacies bid for the opportunity to fill the prescription. The pharmacies are allowed to bid based on price and/or offering ancillary services. The auction may also be used to bid on supplying specified pharmaceutical cognitive services. The method may also include obtaining cost comparisons with generic substitutes or similar alternative pharmaceutical products. The system may further comprise automatically requesting a review by the prescriber for a list of similar substitutes or prior-authorization for third-party payers. The winner of the reverse auction is selected by the customer.

Described herein is a method and system for motion estimation in a video encoder. There are two parts to the motion estimation. Coarse motion estimation generates a set of motion vectors for a current picture and at two or more reference pictures. Fine motion estimation can refine coarse motion estimation results by searching interpolated video data in a region defined by the motion vectors from the coarse motion estimation. Prior to fine motion estimation, the set of motion vectors generated by coarse motion estimation are consolidated in a two level process. In the first level, all motion vectors associated with a particular reference picture are eliminated. For each remaining reference picture in the second level, individual motion vectors are eliminated based on a cost comparison of among motion vectors in a neighborhood.

Provided herein are methods and systems for implementation and delivery of cost comparisons for medical treatment plans. Included are methods and systems of delivering cost comparison to consumers on a plurality of medical treatments offered by the same medical provider or a plurality of medical treatments offered by a plurality of medical providers with or without analyzing the impact of insurance coverage, payment by cash, credit card, loans, and loan and repayment terms. Also included are methods and systems for matching consumers with medical providers based on cost, financing, consumer characteristics, medical provider attributes, and diagnostic and prognostic criteria.

The invention discloses a system and method for automatically generating the project amount and drawing a CAD chart and belongs to the field of electric power engineering design. The system comprises a resource library maintaining module, a project editing module, a drawing paper data calculating module, a CAD drawing paper automatic drawing module and a project amount calculating and exporting module. A data information bridge is established between a CAD drawing tool and budget establishment software, the project amount of data is calculated directly through the software instead of being calculated manually as done in the prior art, and therefore efficiency and quality of budget establishment are improved. During CAD, comprehensive analysis can be achieved by the software according to project amount information such as terrains, geological conditions, tower land occupation, the cubic meter of earth and stone and foundation works, cost information corresponding to a designing scheme can be obtained more quickly, overall cost of the scheme can be obtained to participate in cost comparison, and then an optimal path designing scheme is selected, and design quality is effectively improved.

Unfilled prescriptions are submitted to a registry comprising pre-qualified pharmacies for a “reverse auction” in which the pharmacies bid for the opportunity to fill the prescription. The pharmacies are allowed to bid based on price and/or offering ancillary services. The auction may also be used to bid on supplying specified pharmaceutical cognitive services. The method may also include obtaining cost comparisons with generic substitutes or similar alternative pharmaceutical products. The system may further comprise automatically requesting a review by the prescriber for a list of similar substitutes or prior-authorization for third party payers. The winner of the reverse auction is selected by the customer.

The invention provides a single-edge calculation server and multi-user collaborative calculation unloading and resource allocation method. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, performingmathematical modeling on user equipment in a network, calculation resources and calculation tasks of an edge server and the like; secondly, modeling the task cost composition and the execution cost of the task on the user equipment and the edge server, and modeling the problem as an optimization problem; then, dividing the problem into two sub-problems, solving a resource allocation method for minimizing the local execution cost of the task by using a derivative and function monotonicity, and solving a resource allocation method for minimizing the execution cost of the task on an edge serverby using a genetic algorithm; and finally, for the solved edge server resource allocation method, two methods of time energy constraint and local execution cost comparison are used for screening, anditerative computation is performed to obtain an unloading strategy. According to the method, the execution cost of the calculation task can be minimized, and the service quality of the user is improved.

Polyphase filtering, such as resampling for image resizing, on a processor with parallel output units is cast in terms of data access blocks and data coverage charts to increase processor efficiency. Automatic generation of implementations corresponding to input resampling factors by computation cost comparisons.

A system and method is presented for comparing competitive goods and/or services. The method including steps of receiving, by a processor, first pricing schedule information including fees assessed for providing the goods and/or services to a customer by a first institution, and determining fees incurred by one or more accounts maintained by the customer during a predetermined time period at the first institution per the first pricing schedule information. The method also includes receiving a second pricing schedule information including fees assessed for providing the goods and/or services to the customer by a second institution, and determining fees incurred by the accounts at the second institution per the second pricing schedule information. The method compares the fees determined for maintaining the more accounts at the first institution and at the second institution, and presents a report to the customer including the comparison of the fees.

The invention discloses an excitation regulation and control system based on block chain network whole network construction cost control, which relates to the field of block chains and comprises a computing power acquisition module used for acquiring the current computing power value of the block chain network; an equivalent cost acquisition module which is used for acquiring input equivalent costof the block chain network according to the current computing power value; a cost comparison module which is used for comparing the input equivalent cost with a preset network construction cost value; and if the input equivalent cost is not matched with the preset network construction cost value, adjusting the excitation level of the block chain network to enable the input equivalent cost to be matched with the preset network construction cost value. According to the method, through the macroscopic regulation and control of the excitation level, the useless work of the honeycomb is avoided, the excessive social resources are prevented from being consumed, and the unit computing power profit is improved. The system effectively alleviates the problem that in the prior art, the block chain mining machine blindly follows the input of wind to cause malicious competence competition between the mining machines, and prevents overhigh accounting social cost caused by the competence competition.

A computer implemented method for providing a user with a cost comparison for neighborhood services comprising creating a database of categories of neighborhood services, the categories created by a system administrator and by users submitting categories, users also submitting prices they have actually paid for neighborhood services and the computer providing to users the prices actually paid by other users and an average of prices actually paid.

The invention relates to the technical field of electric power project construction and in particular to a cost analysis method for a power transmission line project. In an existing analysis method, atypical scheme can be rapidly screened when engineering parameters are relatively single, however, when the engineering parameters and the typical scheme are analyzed to have a great difference, thetypical scheme screened subjectively and technical characteristics of a to-be-analyzed project may have great difference, thus, the cost analysis based on the technical scheme deviates from a practical result. The invention provides the cost analysis method for the power transmission line project. The method comprises the following steps of establishing a basic database; preprocessing basic indexdata; constructing a project characteristic dimensionality reduction algorithm based on a principal component analysis; establishing a grey relational model; calculating a project investment of a representative scheme; and performing a cost comparison analysis on the to-be-analyzed project and the representative project investment.

The invention provides an H.265 coding method and device. The H.265 coding device comprises the following modules: a preprocessing module, a coarse selection module and an accurate comparison module,wherein the preprocessing module is used for segmenting a current frame in an original video into a plurality of CTU blocks; the coarse selection module is used for dividing each CTU block according to a plurality of division modes and dividing each CU block into one or more corresponding PU blocks; the coarse selection module is also used for carrying out inter-frame prediction and intra-frame prediction on each division mode of each CTU block and generating one or more pieces of prediction information corresponding to each division mode; and the accurate comparison module is used for performing cost comparison on the prediction information corresponding to each division mode of each CTU block, and generating entropy coding information for generating an H.265 code stream from the currentframe and reconstruction information for generating a reconstruction frame from the current frame. According to the H.265 coding method, the search precision is improved in a distributed search mode,and meanwhile hardware resource consumption is reduced.

The invention discloses an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) management control method for an e-commerce enterprise, and relates to the technical field of ERP management control. A merchant ERP system publishes commodity selling information through an e-commerce platform; the merchant ERP system receives a buyer order sent by the e-commerce platform; the merchant ERP system screens the warehouse ERP system meeting the supply demand according to the buyer order, and forwards the buyer order to the warehouse ERP system meeting the supply demand; the warehouse ERP system generates logistics information according to the buyer order and feeds back the logistics information to the merchant ERP system; the merchant ERP system receives the logistics information fed back by all the warehouse ERP systems, carries out cost comparison, and selects the warehouse ERP system with the lowest cost to place an order; the warehouse ERP system can be reasonably selected for shipment, so that management and control of a part of cost of an enterprise can be realized.

The invention discloses a deposited metal stripping agent for stripping metals deposited on the inner surface of a chemical plating tank and a preparation method of the deposited metal stripping agent. The deposited metal stripping agent comprises the following components: 250-300ml/L sulfuric acid (98%), 80-100ml/L hydrogen peroxide, 50-60ml/L alcohol, 2-3g/L urea, 25-30g/L tartaric acid, 20-25ml/L propylene glycol, 0.01-0.02g/L sodium lauryl sulfate and the balance of water. The preparation method comprises: adding running water the volume of which is 1/2 of that of a prepared liquid into a container at normal temperature; slowly adding the sulfuric acid (98%) while stirring continuously; then sequentially adding hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, urea, tartaric acid, propylene glycol and sodium lauryl sulfate; continuously stirring to dissolve the added substances; adding the balance of running water; and stirring until the mixed solution is homogeneous and transparent. As nitric acid is not contained, the deposited metal stripping agent disclosed by the invention does not generate harmful gas, is environment-friendly and pollution-free; and meanwhile, the cost comparison of each component is relatively low, thus the cost is low.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an equipment maintenance plan optimization method which is used for solving the problem that under the condition that a small amount of operation efficiency data is obtained through manual testing, the accuracy of the depicted equipment operation efficiency change process is limited, and then selection of an equipment optimal maintenance plan is affected.The method provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises the steps of obtaining historical operation information of the equipment and different maintenance plans; generating a predicted load curve of the equipment according to the historical operation information; generating a non-maintenance operation efficiency change curve of the equipment according to the predicted load curve; generating a non-overhaul operation energy consumption cost curve of the equipment according to the non-overhaul operation efficiency change curve; generating a reference operation efficiency change curve after the equipment adopts each maintenance plan according to each maintenance plan and the predicted load curve; and generating a corresponding post-maintenance total cost curve after each maintenance plan is adopted according to each reference operation efficiency change curve, and comparing all the maintenance plans of the equipment in the cost comparison period to obtain and select a target maintenance plan.