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Method of measuring goodness of a module schedule for a carousel

  • US 7,269,840 B2
  • Filed: 06/29/2001
  • Issued: 09/11/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing a carousel schedule to a processing system, the carousel schedule including a plurality of modules, at least one of the modules having at least two instances;

    creating a metric for the carousel schedule, wherein to create the metric, the processing systemdetermines an interval difference for each instance of each module of the plurality of modules,applies a function to the interval difference to determine a result for each instance of each module,adds the result for each instance of each module to a sum, the sum corresponding to the metric,adds a penalty term to the sum in response to an actual interval of any instance of any of the modules equaling one, andadds a penalty term to the sum in response to an actual interval of any instance of any of the modules equaling negative one; and

    outputting the metric, the metric for use in evaluating the carousel schedule.

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