James P Hanson

US Patent:

7203662, Apr 10, 2007

Filed:

Jul 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/915986

Inventors:

Rajarshi Das - New Rochelle NY, US
James E. Hanson - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Jeffrey O. Kephart - Cortlandt Manor NY, US
Steve R. White - New York NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 37, 705 35, 705 26, 705 36, 705 80, 705412

Abstract:

An apparatus, system and method for automatically making operation selling decisions are provided. The apparatus, system and method make use of selling policy rules established by human operators associated with a firm to guide the making of decisions to sell products and/or services. The actual decisions to sell are made automatically by the system without requiring human intervention. The decisions to sell are made by negotiating terms of sale with a customer using history information, exogenous preference information, information obtained from third parties, and the like. An initial offer of sale is provided to a customer who may then elect to modify the terms of sale of the product or service. If the customer elects to modify the terms of sale of the product or service, a negotiation engine of the present invention may automatically provide counteroffers to offers made by the customer until acceptable terms of sale are agreed upon. The negotiation with the customer occurs within the framework established by the selling policy rules established by the human operators.

US Patent:

20020147675, Oct 10, 2002

Filed:

Apr 10, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/829701

Inventors:

Rajarshi Das - New Rochelle NY, US
James Hanson - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Jeffrey Kephart - Cortlandt Manor NY, US
Gerald Tesauro - Croton-on-Hudson NY, US

Assignee:

IBM Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/037000, 709/203000

Abstract:

Automatic electronic bidding for goods or services. In one embodiment, the history of bids or asks is examined to determine which have resulted in trades within a prescribed span of time. This information plus, possibly, some additional auxiliary information is used to estimate, for one or more candidate prices within a prescribed range, the likelihood for a bid or ask at that price to result in a trade; an optimal price is selected using this set of bid/ask prices and trade probabilities plus additional information about privately held information about reservation prices, etc. to compute an optimal bid/ask price or modify an existing bid/ask; and the auctioneer is sent a message conveying the chosen new or modified optimal bid/ask price.

US Patent:

20030023499, Jan 30, 2003

Filed:

Jul 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/915826

Inventors:

Rajarshi Das - New Rochelle NY, US
James Hanson - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Jeffrey Kephart - Cortlandt Manor NY, US
Steve White - New York NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/026000

Abstract:

An apparatus, system and method for automatically making operation purchasing decisions are provided. The apparatus, system and method make use of purchasing policy rules established by human operators associated with a firm to guide the making of decisions to purchase products and/or services. The actual decisions to purchase are made automatically by the system without requiring human intervention. The decisions to purchase are made by evaluating the possible vendors to identify a set of vendors from which the product or service may be obtained. From this set of vendors, one or more vendors are selected from which to purchase the desired product or service. The selection of these one or more vendors may be based on the established rules, information obtained about each vendor, and the results of negotiation with the vendors. Because the actual decisions are performed automatically without human intervention, the decisions may be made much more quickly than would have been done by a human being.

US Patent:

20140059367, Feb 27, 2014

Filed:

Aug 19, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/969793

Inventors:

Rajarshi Das - New Rochelle NY, US
James E. Hanson - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Canturk Isci - West New York NY, US
Jeffrey O. Kephart - Cortlandt Manor NY, US
David W. Levine - Hawthorne NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1/32

US Classification:

713320

Abstract:

A system method and computer program product for managing readiness states of a plurality of computing devices. In response to a request, a computer system operates to either: provide one or more computing devices from an inactive pool to an active pool, or accept one or more active computing devices into the inactive pool. An Inactive Pool Manager proactively manages the inactive states of each computing device by: determining the desired number (and identities) of computing devices to be placed in each inactive state of readiness by solving a constraint optimization problem that describes a user-specified trade-off between expected readiness (estimated time to be able to activate computing devices when they are needed next) and conserving energy; generating a plan for changing the current set of inactive states to the desired set; and, executing the plan. Multiple alternative ways of quantifying the desired responsiveness to surges in demand are provided.

US Patent:

20140283075, Sep 18, 2014

Filed:

Mar 17, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/217406

Inventors:

Joseph Drissel - Columbia MD, US
James Hanson - Ellicott City MD, US

Assignee:

CYBER ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC. - Columbia MD

International Classification:

H04L 29/06
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

726 23

Abstract:

Systems are described for capturing network traffic data and efficiently storing the data on solid state storage devices. The systems can include a capture process module, a storage management module, and a query module. The storage management module can include circuitry configured to hold an arbitrarily large number of solid state storage devices configured to appear to a host system as a single large solid state drive.