Apparatus and method for transportation and upselling of product

• US 8,595,150 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bettes, Richard B., Jaffe, Stephen E., Trevathan, Matthew B., Sanderfur, Bret R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, George
• Application Number:
  US13/483,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20120239447A1
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1.1, 705 711- 736, 705330-348, 705/400
• US Class Current: 705/330
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0838 Historical data

Abstract

A system and method for using product profiling to maximize load capacity of a vehicle. The method includes defining product profiles and retrieving product information associated with the product profiles. The method further includes performing cubing operations for products associated with the product information. The system includes components to perform the method steps.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

retrieving rules for defining products;

providing a summary of the products which match the rules;

correcting a proportionality of the products by at least one processor; and

performing, by the at least one processor, cubing operations for the products using the calculated correct proportionality of the products, wherein the correcting of the proportionality is calculated by;