71 results about "Minimum price" patented technology

Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for distributing a resource (such as electricity) using a resource allocation system. In one exemplary embodiment, a plurality of requests for electricity are received from a plurality of end-use consumers. The requests indicate a requested quantity of electricity and a consumer-requested index value indicative of a maximum price a respective end-use consumer will pay for the requested quantity of electricity. A plurality of offers for supplying electricity are received from a plurality of resource suppliers. The offers indicate an offered quantity of electricity and a supplier-requested index value indicative of a minimum price for which a respective supplier will produce the offered quantity of electricity. A dispatched index value is computed at which electricity is to be supplied based at least in part on the consumer-requested index values and the supplier-requested index values.

Different minimum prices are assigned to different ad serving constraints (such as keywords, geolocations, serving times, etc.). A single auction minimum price may be determined for an auction using the minimum prices assigned to satisfied serving constraints of ads participating in the auction.

An integrated system for the sale of personal possessions in conjunction with a home. When engaged by a homeowner, a real estate agent can provide optional sales channels for personal possession associated with the existing home that the homeowner may no longer need or want. Providing significant convenience to the homeowner, the real estate agent/auction entity takes care of all or most of the details with respect to the sales of the goods and generally delivers the money minus commissions to the homeowner. This includes cataloguing the items for sale both visually and verbally as well as obtaining minimum price information from the homeowner. Storage services may also be provided if necessary for the homeowner by the real estate agent/auctioning entity.

The invention discloses a commodity sales service system based on radio frequency identification technology, which comprises a manufacturer server, a central database server, a sales terminal server, and a field operating terminal. Sales information can be flexibly shared among the sales terminal server, the central database server, and the manufacturer server. In addition, customers can utilize the field operating terminal arranged in a superstore to conveniently know the sales information of commodities to be sold, like commodities with minimum prices and commodities with maximum sales volume in like products; therefore, the customers can purchase proper commodities in a short time without needing to spend longer timer to select the commodities to be sold.

A method for quickly selecting mode of interframe prediction code includes calculating price function under skip mode, calculating price function of macroblock, calculating SAD value of four 8x8 sub-macroblock on said macroblock by applying full-sampling mode, obtaining relevant price function of said macroblock by carrying out 16x8 and 8x8 block motion search on said macroblock and selecting interframe prediction code mode with minimum price function to carry out motion compensation of next stage.

The present invention relates to a hotel price ordering method based on complex query conditions. The method is characterized in that an essential data source is established, data updating logs are established, a realtime data sheet is established, a hotel minimum price list is acquired, and the hotel minimum price list is screened to perform partitioning optimization to a data processing result. By this means, the hotel minimum price list serves as a data source for api, searching, resource backstages and customer service backstages. Meanwhile, data optimized through calculation is adopted, thereby raising api, searching and backstage using efficiency, and improving user experience. Moreover, price ordering searches under complex conditions are provided, so API performance is raised, requirements of consumers for gradual hotel service individuation are met, yield management of hotels becomes fine, and the overall occupancy rate and revenue capabilities of the hotels are greatly improved.

A method, system and machine-readable medium for marching drivers with passengers and for saving money on long-distance rides on the basis of a passenger's price offer, bidding and bargaining, the method includes the following: enabling a passenger to create a ride request by means of a passenger interface, the ride request including a pickup location and a destination point; enabling the passenger to set a specified fare by means of the passenger interface after receiving the previously calculated average fare and the recommended fare data; and if the specified fare set by the passenger is lower than the previously set minimum price according to the pickup location and the destination point, then the ride request from the passenger is rejected and redirected to one or more third-party ride service systems.

The invention relates to the technical field of nano materials, and in particular to a method for selective sensitive mercury ion detection based on a gold nano-cluster fluorescence ratio detection test strip. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, preparing gold nano clusters with two different fluorescence emissions, that is, a bovine serum albumin coated gold nano-cluster (BSA-Au NCs) and cysteine coated gold nano-cluster (Cys-Au NCs); according to an appropriate proportion, concentration and pH conditions, preparing a fluorescence ratio probe, wherein the detection range is 50 nM-3 [mu]M, the minimum price detection limit is 9 nM, and the fluorescence ratio probe is as shown in figure 1 in the specification; finally preparing the fluorescence ratio detection test strip. By adopting the method, the fluorescence ratio detection test strip is prepared under gentle conditions and is applied to detection on mercury ions in an actual water sample.

A method of controlling storage of electrical energy by charging and discharging an energy storage device in response to pricing data indicative of future prices of electrical energy over time and energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device comprises detecting alternating candidate charging and discharging occasions with respect to the pricing data by selecting a next occurrence of a locally minimum price in the pricing data as a candidate charging occasion or a next occurrence of a locally maximum price in the pricing data as a candidate discharging occasion; validating a candidate charging or discharging occasion if the price difference between that candidate charging or discharging occasion and another later price in the pricing data is at least sufficient to compensate for the energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device; and charging and discharging the energy storage device at the validated charging and discharging occasions, respectively.

A computerized system alerts a change in direction of the price of a tradable financial instrument. The system plots a resistance line, a support line, and a transition point at which the price is changing. The transition point occurs when the price of the tradable instrument is either higher or lower than both the corresponding resistance point on the resistance line and a corresponding support point on the support line. Resistance points are calculated sequentially as the lowest averaged values of a series of critical prices for a particular time period. Support points are calculated sequentially as the highest averaged values of a series of critical prices for a particular time period, wherein the critical prices comprise the highest price, the lowest price, and the closing price of the tradable instrument for that particular time period.

The invention belongs to the field of hydroelectric economic dispatching, andrelates to a multi-objective optimization and electric quantity distribution method for a cascade key hydropower station ina market environment. According to the water coming condition in the cascade hydropower station group year, the requirement is formulated according to the multi-objective optimization scheduling method with the maximum market economic benefit and the minimum waste water amount, and the multivariate power market allocation proportion based on the minimum price fluctuation rate and the maximum expected income of different markets is given according to multivariate market classification. the NSGA-2 genetic algorithm framework is used to solve the multi-objective frontier solution set for the economic benefits and the abandonment of the ladder market, a satisfactory solution set for the water level process and the treatment process of the cascade reservoir in the year are given, and a plan participation multivariate market transaction electric quantity distribution proportion is given according to market electricity price fluctuation in the reference year. The invention publishes the boundary range of the water level of the important hydropower station for the transaction center and provides method support for the hydropower station participating in the main market to participate in power market bidding.

The invention relates to a foreign exchange (FX) automatic transaction system comprising a communication module, a K-line monitoring system, a data storage device, a first policy judging device and a funds management device. By means of the first policy judging device, a buying long signal is sent out one minute just before closing the quotation on the K line within the 15-minute period on the conditions that the current price is larger than the average value of the maximum prices of previous 144 K lines within a four-hour period, smaller than the minimum price of a previous K line within a 60-minute period and smaller than the average value of the minimum prices of previous 21 K lines within a 15-minute period; MACD/OSMA indexes within the 15-minute period meet the bottom deviation condition; and the material part of the current K line within the 15-minute period is smaller than 80% the length of a downlead. By means of the funds management device, the buying/selling/profit balance can be automatically completed by the system according to buying long signal/selling short signals sent by the first policy judging device. Therefore, the manual analysis and the manual operation are not required. Meanwhile, the system can be cooperated with the manually intervened buying/selling operation to prevent the influence of manual operation errors.

The invention provides a timeliness-first scheduling method and system, which is used for drop and pull transport. The method comprises the steps of establishing a task queue for any truck or trailer,and estimating position and time of finishing the final task by the truck or the trailer; giving an order set, and finding out an optimal truck and trailer combination, meeting the following conditions, of each order in the order set: the excepted compartment arrival time of the order is greater than a sum of available time and predicted driving time of the trailer, and the expected departure time of the order is greater than a sum of available time and predicted driving time of the truck; calculating a single order price, wherein the single order price is equal to a sum of a short-distance price and a trunk line price; if the trailer and the truck sent by an optimal solution of each order do not have a conflict, obtaining a global optimal solution, otherwise, searching for the global optimal solution through pruning search, replacing the orders with conflicts, using a next non-conflicting truck and trailer combination with a minimum price to solve an overall price of the order set, and if the overall price is increased, performing pruning and discarding; and if no solution exists after the search, discarding the orders with the expected compartment arrival time farthest from current time, and repeatedly executing the steps.

A degressive method for an auction process of the present invention comprises offering at least one item for sale; setting an initial maximum price, a minimum price and a degressive rule; receiving bidding from buyers, and a current price is decreased according to the degressive rule until the auction is ended. A degressive auction system comprises an input device for inputting an initial maximum price, a minimum price and a degressive rule; and a control device for receiving bidding from buyers, and the control device decreases the current price according to the degressive rule until the auction is terminated.

A dealer to dealer tool allows a dealer to post a car for sale with specific details, or search for a car with specific details, using an app or IVR system and thus untethered from computers, though a computer option is provided. A human operator response system is included as an alternative. The device requires any interested party to meet the minimum price, which may be hidden or posted. The device of the invention allows extra services such as dealer to dealer networking for advice, news, data updates, social purposes and more. If a vehicle does not change owners it is quickly timed out to a Hot List system, then a bulletin board, and then blacklisted until it has a new owner. A dealer signs up and enters a profile of vehicles and/or price ranges of interest, also listing other dealers they do not wish to work with.