Jeffrey C Robbins

US Patent:

20100268651, Oct 21, 2010

Filed:

Apr 20, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/426639

Inventors:

Olga Raskina - Arlington MA, US
Sean Correll - Dover MA, US
Jeffrey Robbins - Lexington MA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705 80, 705 7

Abstract:

An sourcing event management system includes a presentation layer, a business logic layer, an infrastructure layer and storage and operates to facilitate the creation of a bidding scenario, the opening of a bidding process, reception of bids from suppliers, the closing of the bidding process and the analysis of the bids received from the suppliers to determine an optimal bid award schedule. The sourcing event management system also includes a modified mathematical model that is solved, subject to constraints selected by a buyer and to variables specified by the buyer, to determine how the constraints can be modified to further optimize the bid award schedule.

US Patent:

20140006943, Jan 2, 2014

Filed:

Jun 28, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/536333

Inventors:

Jeffrey Robbins - Cambridge MA, US
Gabriel N. Schaffer - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Brett J. Cohen - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Arvind Goyal - Sudbury MA, US

Assignee:

LiveData, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715273

Abstract:

Techniques for generating and providing a checklist, and for providing updates to a checklist based on event data. In some aspects, a checklist is provided to a terminal device by receiving a notification of a trigger event, which is used, at least in part, to obtain a checklist template and to generate a checklist from the checklist template, which is then provided to the terminal device. In some aspects, a server device provides a checklist to a terminal device, the checklist comprising a sequence of prompts, each prompt indicating one or more actions, and the server device provides an update to the checklist based on received event data.

US Patent:

51758148, Dec 29, 1992

Filed:

Jan 30, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/472245

Inventors:

Peter G. Anick - Marlboro MA
Jeffrey D. Brennan - Allston MA
Rex A. Flynn - Belmont MA
Bryan Alvey - Colorado Springs CO
David R. Hanssen - Sterling MA
Jeffrey M. Robbins - Colorado Springs CO

Assignee:

Digital Equipment Corporation - Maynard MA

International Classification:

G06F 1520

US Classification:

395161

Abstract:

A method and apparatus that translates a natural language query into a Boolean expression to be used to search a database. The Boolean expression is displayed on a screen so that the user can alter the Boolean expression using a mouse or similar input device and re-execute the search. The manipulations performed by the user include moving terms of the query, changing the order in which query terms are evaluated, adding terms, deleting terms, and selecting alternate versions of terms.