74 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.

The present invention includes an approval engine for pre-approving media content by which a user can interact with an ad generator and request at least one content item not owned by the user for inclusion in a creative. The approval engine also includes a content provision rules engine that includes a plurality of rules asserted by the owner of the requested content to govern the inclusion of the content in the creative, where ones of the plurality of rules includes a minimum price. The content provision rules engine further includes a content provision interface by which the owner of the requested content can interact with the content rules engine to assert the plurality of rules. The user then receives authorization to include the requested content upon meeting the requirements of each of the plurality of rules asserted by the owner prior to the content request made by the user.

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.

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.

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.

A service provider provides one or more “best” total value suggestions for one or more items specified by a user. The suggestions are based on one or more of user preferences, user location, available funding options, available local merchant incentives, available manufacturer incentives, and local merchants offering the item. In one embodiment, the “best” total value is the lowest price available to the user. The user may make a purchase using a suggestion or a revised suggestion.

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.

Method and system for enabling advertisers to deliver advertisements to consumers in which a plurality of tiers of available advertisements are defined, each tier containing a number of advertisements, a price for allocation of an advertisement in each tier is set wherein a lowest tier has the lowest price and the price increases to a maximum at a highest tier, and advertisements are allocated to advertisers based on availability starting from a lowest tier with unallocated advertisements and progressing to higher tiers.

The present invention discloses an e-commerce platform commodity transaction collective quotation management system. The system comprises a buyer's bid unit, a seller's quotation unit, a pricing unit, a matching unit, a data analysis unit and a payment unit; the buyer's bid unit is used for acquiring the quantity of commodities and corresponding bid information which are sent by a buyer through a client server; the seller's quotation unit is used for acquiring the quantity of commodities and corresponding quotation information which are sent by a seller through a manufacturer' server; the pricing unit calculates the priced prices of the commodities according to received valid buyer's bid and seller's quotation information and adopts the priced prices of the commodities as references for next price acquisition; the matching unit is used for performing matching to confirm the conclusion of a transaction according to the received valid buyer's bid and seller's quotation information; the data analysis unit confirms a transaction platform system and detects whether the quantity of the commodities satisfies specifications, whether a transfer unit price and a minimum price are within a specified range, whether a deposit bank is matched with a receiving account; and the payment unit is used for informing the buyer of a transaction price and then providing third-party payment platform services for the buyer, so that the transaction can be completed. With the system of the invention adopted, exchange efficiency is higher, and resource allocation is more reasonable.

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 discloses a flight recommendation method based on a user consumption level. The method comprises the steps of obtaining query conditions input by a user and a user ID, wherein the queryconditions comprise a departure place, an arrival place and a departure date; Acquiring a characteristic attribute of a user according to the user ID; Calculating the consumption level of the user according to the characteristic attribute of the user; Searching flights meeting query conditions, and calculating the levels of the flights according to the characteristic attributes of the flights; Andreturning a minimum price air ticket of the flight level matched with the user consumption level to the user. The flight information of different levels can be recommended to the users of different consumption levels, so that the ticket buying requirements of the users of all the consumption levels are met. The problem that in the prior art, only the lowest price ticket is pushed, and the requirements of high-end users cannot be met is solved.

The method includes steps: resources i.e. executing hosts put forward applications for joining cluster to server; receiving task submitted from task presenter, server evaluates executive price for each task, carrying out dispatching assignment for executive task according to principle of minimum price; when task waited to execute is detected in own task storage space, idle executing host in distributed cluster carries out process of executing benefit for all candidate tasks, and carrying out sorting assignment for candidate tasks according to executing benefit; based on description of task, executing host requests program files and data files to pointed file server, and file server sends files needed by task to executing host; when task is completed, executing host sends output files to the task presenter. The invention realizes instant property of market information, reduces burden at server end so as to raise system performance.

The present invention includes an approval engine for pre-approving media content by which a user can interact with an ad generator and request at least one content item not owned by the user for inclusion in a creative. The approval engine also includes a content provision rules engine that includes a plurality of rules asserted by the owner of the requested content to govern the inclusion of the content in the creative, where ones of the plurality of rules includes a minimum price. The content provision rules engine further includes a content provision interface by which the owner of the requested content can interact with the content rules engine to assert the plurality of rules. The user then receives authorization to include the requested content upon meeting the requirements of each of the plurality of rules asserted by the owner prior to the content request made by the user.

A commodity sales system includes at least one server computer including a memory system, a commodity price specification module for receiving a purchase request of a selected commodity from the user computer and for specifying a commodity price of the selected commodity. A storage module that stores a component price table and a maximum / minimum price determination module are also included. A deduction setting module and a tentative quote setting module for setting the minimum price determined by the maximum / minimum price determination module to a tentative quote of the used personal computer are also included.

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.

The invention discloses a commodity strict selection method and system based on e-commerce big data, belongs to the technical field of big data, and aims to solve the technical problem of how to quickly and reasonably select commodities and improve the cost performance of the commodities while ensuring the commodity quality. According to the technical scheme, the method obtains and accumulates commodity industry average prices, store operation conditions and preferential prices through a big data technology, obtains commodities with good credit, merchants with good evaluation and relatively hot selling commodities, and provides commodity selection reference for anchors with commodities; the method specifically comprises the following steps: acquiring basic information of a network business shop and basic information of shop commodities by utilizing a crawler technology, and storing in a database; obtaining price information and hot commodity information of a shop, obtaining recent minimum price information of commodities, and storing the recent minimum price information in a database; establishing a commodity classification and grading model: carrying out grading and labeling on commodities of high-quality network shops, and establishing a commodity selection library; and according to the goods carried by the anchor or the purchase demand of the consumer, different categories and different grades of selected goods are provided.

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.

The invention relates to a subscription reminding method and device for calculating the whole-network base price of a commodity, electronic equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: collecting commodity data from each e-commerce platform; for the same SKU commodity, counting commodity data of the SKU commodity of each e-commerce platform, calculating and generatinga whole-network lowest price of the SKU commodity according to a preset algorithm, and sending the SKU commodity and the corresponding whole-network lowest price to a subscription information pushingmodule; and receiving each SKU commodity and the corresponding minimum price of the whole network, respectively searching subscribers of each SKU commodity, and sending the minimum price of the wholenetwork to the corresponding user. According to the invention, based on big data processing, commodity price changes of multiple shopping malls can be processed, commodity prices can be timely responded and updated, and an optimal price acquisition scheme is provided for users through subscription and notification issuing modes.