68 results about "Cost distribution" patented technology

An opportunity server tracks in vehicle information system wireless web transactions using session identifiers, aggregates transaction records into session data, and uses session data assign cost of network and system usage to a winning bidding party in an online offering system so as to offset costs to the user for usage of the system. Credits are posted to share revenue and offset costs of OEM equipment and network access metered fees, thereby reducing the cost of said transactions by a user and promoting unfettered use of in vehicle information systems for a variety of services, purposes, and transactions.

A costing process that takes advantage of real-time information about plant floor activities and provides a more accurate and timely financial feedback about the process efficiencies in response to new changes in the process operation. The costing process includes identifying stations that consume resources, consume activities and supply activities. The costing process also identifies a plurality of resources that are provided to one or more of the stations. The costing process also includes identifying resources from the plurality of resources that are used as needed and resources that are supplied in advance of being used. The costing process allocates costs for each resource to each station that the resource supplies, including calculating a cost rate, calculating a cost of used capacity and calculating a cost of unused capacity. The costing process then determines the cost that each station and product uses based on the allocations.

The market simulator / optimizer of the present invention combines partworth valuation techniques of Conjoint analysis with Nash equilibrium profit-maximization methodologies for sophisticated statistical treatment of a virtual available market comprising a multiplicity of virtual customers. An easy-to-use graphical user interface allows a user to arrange various market component icons to model various market characteristics. Associated with the market component icons are various distributions, including a benefit distribution containing values indicative of respective benefits to the multiplicity of virtual customer, and a cost distribution containing values indicative of respective costs associated with providing the respective benefits to the multiplicity of virtual customers.

The invention provides a method, system and machine readable program for managing cost distribution. The method, system and machine readable program are each configured to receive information relating to the total cost of a product and generate a multiple cost structure for the product by generating an acquisition cost of the product; and generating at least one operating cost of the product. Generating a cost structure can include calculating at least one of the acquisition cost and operating cost based on a preset formula. Moreover, the cost structure generating step can additionally or alternatively include generating at least one of the acquisition cost and operating cost by manually inputting them through a graphical user interface. The product can be an energy saving device such as a hybrid vehicle, a fuel cell powered device, a light bulb and an energy control system.

The inventive offering creation and validation (OCAV) component identifies all available resource types contained in a resource catalog, invokes a “get timetable” resource management action for each of those resource types, and finally receives a timetable containing all resource types with their assigned resources and their assigned free, reserved, and used time slots. By using that timetable, the OCAV component generates a new timetable including all resource types with their assigned resources having a common free time slots. Then, the OCAV component invokes a “get cost” resource management action for each resource type in that new timetable and assigns the calculated costs to the respective resource types, resulting in a final timetable. In further step, the OCAV component maps the free resource included in that final timetable to predefined service environments described in the resource catalog, and if the mapping has been successful, creates a list including all predefined service environments including their free time slots and costs. Finally, the OCAV component generates an offering for each of those SEs, assigns a price to each offering which is preferably calculated by certain business rules, and publishes it, preferably in a registry.

The invention discloses an indoor area covering method suitable for a vehicle type mobile robot. The method includes the steps of firstly, building a two-dimensional static raster map based on information of sensors such as a laser range finder, completing raster cost distribution of the static map, and forming a dynamic cost map; secondly, completing area dividing of the cost map, and obtaining the information of sub-areas; finally, building a map according to the adjacency relationship between the sub-areas, applying a sub-area planning algorithm based on a minimum tree to the map to obtain a sub-area planning sequence, applying an area transferring algorithm based on a Dijkstra algorithm to obtain inter-area transferring routes, and using different covering strategies according to the specifications of the sub-areas to achieve complete area covering. Compared with a traditional method, the indoor area covering method suitable for the vehicle type mobile robot has the advantages that multi-strategy covering of the different areas is achieved, the covering efficiency of the robot can be improved, and the indoor area covering method conforms to the perceiving habits of people.

A system and method for application resource utilization metering and cost allocation in a utility computing environment. In one embodiment, the system may include a computational resource, a plurality of applications configured to utilize the computational resource, a metering utility configured to measure utilization of the computational resource by a given one of the plurality of applications, and a cost model configured to allocate a first portion of a cost of the computational resource to the given application dependent upon the measured utilization of the computational resource by the given application.

A consolidated procurement management system includes a server (2), and a plurality of buyer systems (4) and a plurality of supplier systems (5) connected to the server through a network (3). The server includes: a material requirement information receipt module (21) for receiving material requirement information from the buyer systems; a material requirement consolidation module (22) for calculating a total requirement quantity for each material, and generating consolidated material requirement data; a quote receipt module (25) for receiving quotes from the supplier systems; a purchase module (26) for determining one or more winning suppliers from a plurality of suppliers participating in price negotiations, and for generating purchase orders; and a purchase cost allocation module (29) for calculating purchase costs and expenses for each buyer, and for generating purchase cost allocation information. A related consolidated procurement management method is also disclosed.

A method of automating security risk assessment and management and corrective feedback with a cost-optimized allocation plan is disclosed. The method, operable in a computer system, includes presenting an on-line survey questionnaire and receiving, in response to the on-line survey questionnaire, a user-provided answer. The method further includes extracting data from the computer system and calculating, in response to the user-provided answer and the extracted data, a security risk. The method also includes producing, in response to the security risk, the cost-optimized allocation plan. The data and the user-provided answer are recorded in a data repository. The cost-optimized allocation plan is produced using a game-theoretical approach. The cost-allocation allocation plan includes changes to break even a cost differential of an expected cost of loss (ECL), and further assigns realistic market-oriented mitigation costs to each line of action for the user's computer or system.

The present disclosure describes methods and systems that allocate costs of deploying and operating a virtual network to tenants that use the virtual network. In one implementation, costs are allocated to tenant virtual machines (“VMs”) by determining a network bandwidth of a virtual network, determining a common cost of operating the virtual network, determining a service capacity for each network service provided by the virtual network, and determining a service cost for each network service. A portion of the common cost is allocated to each VM based on the proportion of network bandwidth used by each VM, and a portion of the service cost is allocated to each VM based on the proportion of the service capacity used by each VM.

A system and method that allows for information relating to data and communication resource usage to be gathered and analyzed such that particular data transactions and usage can be classified based on purpose and / or type. Further, the system and method provide reporting based on amount of usage and / or purpose or type of usage so that associated costs and usage can be calculated applied and allocated to particular accounts, divisions, groups or individuals within and outside of a company or entity. Further, the system may restrict data usage of devices to data usage that can be allocated to particular accounts based on purpose, source, destination or other.

The invention provides a method, device and system for managing an engineering machine equipment leasing platform, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the information of engineering machine equipment leased by a construction side; calculating the lease expense of the engineering machine equipment in a lease charging mode employed for the leased engineering machine equipment according to the obtained information of the engineering machine equipment; obtaining the weight of the engineering machine equipment, the no-load driving distance of trailing equipment for trailing the engineering machine equipment, and a trailing distance of the leased engineering machine equipment; determining the trailing expense of the engineering machine equipment according to the weight, the no-load driving distance and the trailing distance; enabling the sum of the lease expense and the trailing expense to serve as the total cost for the leasing of the engineering machine equipment; and respectively distributing the total cost to all participating sides according to the preset participating sides and the distribution proportions of the participating sides. According to the invention, the method employs a unified charging and cost distribution standard in the engineering machine equipment leasing industry, and improves the accuracy of the leasing cost of the engineering machine equipment.

There is provided a financial practice management system comprising a database storing client information and cost information; a cost allocation module determines a client servicing value by allocating costs associated with ongoing business activities to the client servicing value and excluding costs associated with new business activities; and an individual client earnings (ICE) ratio module determines a client income value derived from the client's business with the financial advisory business, the ICE ratio module further determines an ICE ratio value for a particular client by dividing the difference between the client income value and the client servicing value with the client income value or the client servicing value, thereby providing a profitability of the particular client. In addition, the invention extends to a method and system to quantify potential new revenue streams which may be generated from products that a client may need during different phases of the client's life.

A Computer apparatus configured to process transactions in fungible assets on behalf of account holders on a client controlled, order by order basis, via account controlled and configured private books of business and public books, as well as proactively route public orders to external venues based on analysis of account-specific best execution configurations including venue cost assignments and account-specific venue routing parameters.

The invention provides a device and a method for fast selecting a video coding mode. The method comprises the following steps: adjusting the cost threshold value of a current frame according to the optimal interframe coding cost distribution of an intra-frame prediction macro block of a previous frame; selecting the mode of the each macro block of the current frame as follows: computing the interframe coding cost of the current macro block under each macro block mode and selecting the interframe coding mode with lowest cost as an optimal interframe coding mode; and when the cost of the optimal interframe coding mode is less than the cost threshold value, selecting the optimal interframe coding mode as the coding mode of the current macro block. With the device and the method for selecting the video coding quick mode adopted, the accuracy for selecting the coding mode can be improved.

The invention discloses a big data intelligent management method and system based on DRGs. The method comprises the following steps: putting hospitalization medical record home page data of annual hospitalization cases of a hospital in a certain region into a DRG grouping device; grouping according to a DRG grouping principle (according to disease diagnosis, surgical operation, complications / complications, ages, severity degrees and the like) to obtain n DRG groups, the weight number and the case number of each DRG group, corresponding hospitalization days and cost distribution; calculating the total weight number of the hospitalized cases of the hospital; calculating a case combination index (CMI) value, wherein the CMI value is equal to the total weight number of the hospital / the total number of hospitalized cases of the hospital; calculating the relative weight RWi of the ith DRG group and analyzing the proportion of the cased with the relative weight RWi larger than 2 in the hospital to all cases in the hospital, wherein the average cost of the cases in the DRGi group represents the average cost of the ith DRG group.

The invention relates to a mobile phone advertising cost distribution method which comprises the following steps: step 1, an advertiser submits advertisement content to be issued to a management platform; step 2, the management platform issues the advertisement content through a communication channel provided by a mobile telephone service provider; step 3, a smartphone user receives the advertisement content in a net-play way; step 4, according to rules, direct advertisement cost for browsing and clicking advertisements is returned to a user who downloads the advertisements to a mobile phone; and step 5, according to the rules, selling profit sharing of commercial activities caused by browsing and clicking the advertisements is returned. According to the mobile phone advertising cost distribution method, the user can obtain compensation in communication fee by clicking and browsing the advertisements and can obtain the selling profit sharing of the commercial activities caused by browsing and clicking the advertisements.

The inventive offering creation and validation (OCAV) component identifies all available resource types contained in a resource catalog, invokes a “get timetable” resource management action for each of those resource types, and finally receives a timetable containing all resource types with their assigned resources and their assigned free, reserved, and used time slots. By using that timetable, the OCAV component generates a new timetable including all resource types with their assigned resources having a common free time slots. Then, the OCAV component invokes a “get cost” resource management action for each resource type in that new timetable and assigns the calculated costs to the respective resource types, resulting in a final timetable. In further step, the OCAV component maps the free resource included in that final timetable to predefined service environments described in the resource catalog, and if the mapping has been successful, creates a list including all predefined service environments including their free time slots and costs. Finally, the OCAV component generates an offering for each of those SEs, assigns a price to each offering which is preferably calculated by certain business rules, and publishes it, preferably in a registry.

An improved approach for implementing metal fill on an electrical device without causing creating cross-coupling capacitance problems is disclosed. Timing aware metal fill insertion is performed to avoid or minimize cross-capacitance problems on the IC design. A cost may be assigned to different candidate metal fill shapes. The cost is associated with the expected effect upon timing requirements by the metal fill shape, with lower costs corresponding to lower expected impacts upon the timing requirements. To meet density requirements, lower cost metal fill shapes are inserted prior to higher cost metal fill shapes.

The present invention is related to systems and methods for implementing commission allocations in transaction management of auction-based trading for specialized items such as interest-rate-related instruments. In accordance with these systems and methods, a plurality of workstations that are connected to a server, and a structured commission allocation protocol may be provided. Through the workstations, the server, and the commission allocation protocol, the systems and methods may allocate commissions or fees when trading securities at accelerated levels with minimal errors and costs, control commission elements during real-time trading, and distribute commission and transaction data in real time.

A system and method for setting a billing allocation between a user and a company allowing the costs for personal and work use of a mobile device during a period to be allocated as desired. The system and method further provides for allocation of costs associated with obtaining a new mobile device. The billing allocation model provides maximum flexibility to allow a user to obtain the mobile device desired, while still allowing the user to take advantage of a company's preferred corporate rates and discounts and allowing a company to maintain control of mobile device costs relating to purchase and use of the mobile device.

A storage system 1000 providing a storage area to an external device 1500 comprises a plurality of storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300 of different performance capabilities, and a storage controller 2600. The storage controller 2600 holds storage cost coefficients 3202 of the respective storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300, user cost allocation information 3302 for each user using the storage system 1000 from the external device 1500, and user cost distribution information 3402 that defines, for each user, proportions of an available space amount distributed to the storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300. The storage controller 2600 calculates an ideal utilization 3502 for each user, from the storage cost coefficients 3202 and the user cost distribution information 3402, and allocates, for each user, the ideal utilization 3502 to each of the storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300, in the order of the performance capabilities from highest to lowest.

The invention discloses a power grid equipment life cycle cost calculation method, which comprises a step of building a power grid equipment life cycle constitution model and a step of forming a peak shaving gap cost analysis and calculation method, wherein peak shaving gap cost analysis and calculation method further comprises the steps of dividing the life cycle cost into one-time investment cost and operation and maintenance cost, determining operation and maintenance cost best-fit distribution by adopting a grey system theory analysis method so as to acquire an operation and maintenance cost distribution relation, synthesizing the two parts of cost by combining a time allocation based one-time investment cost calculation method and taking the lowest LCC (Life Cycle Cost) as a target so as to form the power equipment life cycle cost analysis and calculation method. The power grid equipment life cycle cost calculation method achieves the purposes of reducing resource consumption and realizing effective control for the cost.

The invention relates to a method for evaluating the risk of a simulation system based on fuzzy FMEA, in particular to a method for evaluating the risk of the simulation system through fuzzy FMEA. The method aims to solve the problems that an existing method for evaluating the risk is unreasonable in cost allocation and evaluation, an evaluation result cannot meet requirements, and qualitative evaluation is based on opinions and judgment of people. The method includes the steps that firstly, the risk of the whole simulation system is preliminarily evaluated based on fuzzy FMEA, and then a fuzzy result is obtained; secondly, evaluation cost of the whole simulation system is estimated; thirdly, a calculation model of the risk and the cost of the whole simulation system is built; fourthly, the relation between fuzzy linear cost and the risk of the whole simulation system is evaluated, a fuzzy linear programming model of an evaluation solution is built, and then the final whole risk evaluation result is obtained. The method is applied to the field of risk evaluation.

A method is provided for analyzing performance of a software application that is configured to contain a number of objects, wherein the application defines operations that include respective objects and relationships corresponding thereto. Performance costs are assigned to respective objects and to their corresponding relationships, and a total cost is computed for each of the operations from the assigned performance costs. Notice is provided when the cost of a particular operation exceeds a pre-specified performance threshold.

The invention discloses an economic management cost control system. The system comprises a central processing unit, a cost budget module, a fingerprint acquisition module, a power supply module, a login unit, a comparison module, a first feedback module, a cost distribution analysis module, a second feedback module, an early warning unit, a display unit, an input module, an expert analysis module,a cost input unit and a data security management module. According to the invention, diversified cost input analysis is realized; the singleness of cost analysis is avoided; distribution between various costs and real-time analysis and comparison between the cost and the budget are realized; an economic management cost control system of the system is formed; The enterprise economic management system has the advantages that decision of managers is more evident and scientific, basic network security and system security of enterprises can be managed, security management can be performed on datainformation stored in the enterprises, security of enterprise economic management information is guaranteed comprehensively, and security assurance is provided for enterprise economic management.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of power system optimal scheduling and particularly relates to a dynamic reconfiguration method for a multi-agent participation AC and DC hybrid distribution network. According to the method, with the consideration of the risk of a day-ahead prediction error, the optimization solution is carried out with a day-ahead dispatch cost minimum as a target function. In addition, after the completion of a transaction of a micro-grid alliance and a distribution network is completed, a self-based settlement strategy is used by a micro grid in the alliance, and a lower-cost renewable energy trading strategy is used preferentially to carry out cost distribution. A power distribution operator adopts a genetic algorithm to decide a distribution network reconfiguration plan in the next 24 hours based on an exchange power plan uploaded by multiple micro-grid alliances and power prediction values of other load points. According to the method, a day-ahead load value and a prediction error of a distributed power supply are fully considered, the fluctuation of scheduling cost is effectively reduced, and the method is very instructive for the scheduling of the AC and DC hybrid distribution network for the widespread access of the multiple micro grids to the power distribution network in the future.