System for optimizing configurable information handling systems

• US 20060193462A1
• Filed: 02/28/2005
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Hansen, Gregg
• Application Number:
  US11/068,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20060193462A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/266.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method for automatically optimizing configuration of an information handling system based upon predefined goals which include providing the predefined goals to a configurator, performing a needs based optimization based upon the predefined goals and indicating a preferred information handling system configuration based upon the needs based optimization.

Claims

1. A method for automatically optimizing configuration of an information handling system based upon predefined goals comprising:

providing the predefined goals to a configurator;

performing a needs based optimization based upon the predefined goals;

indicating a preferred information handling system configuration based upon the needs based optimization.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the predefined goals include identifying margins associated with various information handling system configurations.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the needs based optimization is preformed using customer provided information.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein:

the customer provided information includes a preferred budget for the information handling system.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein:

the customer provided information includes at least one of customer marketing segmentation information, customer profile information , customer preference information and customer demographic data.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the optimizing configuration the information handling system is in response to a technical service contact.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein:

the needs based optimization is preformed using a cost of repairing an information handling system.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein:

the needs based optimization takes into account a configuration of a system for which the technical service contact was initiated.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the needs based optimization is preformed using customer provided budget information; and

,

the budget information may be may be adjusted across price bands after the needs based optimization is performed.

10. An apparatus for automatically optimizing configuration of an information handling system based upon predefined goals comprising:

means for providing the predefined goals to a configurator;

mean for performing a needs based optimization based upon the predefined goals;

means for indicating a preferred information handling system configuration based upon the needs based optimization.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein:

the predefined goals include identifying margins associated with various information handling system configurations.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein:

the needs based optimization is preformed using customer provided information.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein:

the customer provided information includes a preferred budget for the information handling system.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein:

the customer provided information includes at least one of customer marketing segmentation information, customer profile information , customer preference information and customer demographic data.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein:

the optimizing configuration the information handling system is in response to a technical service contact.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein:

the needs based optimization is preformed using a cost of repairing an information handling system.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein:

the needs based optimization takes into account a configuration of a system for which the technical service contact was initiated.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein:

the needs based optimization is preformed using customer provided budget information; and

,

the budget information may be may be adjusted across price bands after the needs based optimization is performed.