68 results about "Cost distribution" patented technology

An opportunity server tracks in vehicle information system wireless web transactions using session identifiers, aggregates transaction records into session data, and uses session data assign cost of network and system usage to a winning bidding party in an online offering system so as to offset costs to the user for usage of the system. Credits are posted to share revenue and offset costs of OEM equipment and network access metered fees, thereby reducing the cost of said transactions by a user and promoting unfettered use of in vehicle information systems for a variety of services, purposes, and transactions.

A system and method for application resource utilization metering and cost allocation in a utility computing environment. In one embodiment, the system may include a computational resource, a plurality of applications configured to utilize the computational resource, a metering utility configured to measure utilization of the computational resource by a given one of the plurality of applications, and a cost model configured to allocate a first portion of a cost of the computational resource to the given application dependent upon the measured utilization of the computational resource by the given application.

The invention provides a method, device and system for managing an engineering machine equipment leasing platform, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the information of engineering machine equipment leased by a construction side; calculating the lease expense of the engineering machine equipment in a lease charging mode employed for the leased engineering machine equipment according to the obtained information of the engineering machine equipment; obtaining the weight of the engineering machine equipment, the no-load driving distance of trailing equipment for trailing the engineering machine equipment, and a trailing distance of the leased engineering machine equipment; determining the trailing expense of the engineering machine equipment according to the weight, the no-load driving distance and the trailing distance; enabling the sum of the lease expense and the trailing expense to serve as the total cost for the leasing of the engineering machine equipment; and respectively distributing the total cost to all participating sides according to the preset participating sides and the distribution proportions of the participating sides. According to the invention, the method employs a unified charging and cost distribution standard in the engineering machine equipment leasing industry, and improves the accuracy of the leasing cost of the engineering machine equipment.

There is provided a financial practice management system comprising a database storing client information and cost information; a cost allocation module determines a client servicing value by allocating costs associated with ongoing business activities to the client servicing value and excluding costs associated with new business activities; and an individual client earnings (ICE) ratio module determines a client income value derived from the client's business with the financial advisory business, the ICE ratio module further determines an ICE ratio value for a particular client by dividing the difference between the client income value and the client servicing value with the client income value or the client servicing value, thereby providing a profitability of the particular client. In addition, the invention extends to a method and system to quantify potential new revenue streams which may be generated from products that a client may need during different phases of the client's life.

A Computer apparatus configured to process transactions in fungible assets on behalf of account holders on a client controlled, order by order basis, via account controlled and configured private books of business and public books, as well as proactively route public orders to external venues based on analysis of account-specific best execution configurations including venue cost assignments and account-specific venue routing parameters.

At least the following process is performed in order to properly allocate a cost of a consumable used for other than jobs. An amount of the consumable used for other than jobs is determined, and a cost of the consumable corresponding to the determined amount of the consumable is allocated to costs of a plurality of jobs executed.

A system and method that allows for information relating to data and communication resource usage to be gathered and analyzed such that particular data transactions and usage can be classified based on purpose and / or type. Further, the system and method provide reporting based on amount of usage and / or purpose or type of usage so that associated costs and usage can be calculated applied and allocated to particular accounts, divisions, groups or individuals within and outside of a company or entity. Further, the system may restrict data usage of devices to data usage that can be allocated to particular accounts based on purpose, source, destination or other.

The inventive offering creation and validation (OCAV) component identifies all available resource types contained in a resource catalog, invokes a “get timetable” resource management action for each of those resource types, and finally receives a timetable containing all resource types with their assigned resources and their assigned free, reserved, and used time slots. By using that timetable, the OCAV component generates a new timetable including all resource types with their assigned resources having a common free time slots. Then, the OCAV component invokes a “get cost” resource management action for each resource type in that new timetable and assigns the calculated costs to the respective resource types, resulting in a final timetable. In further step, the OCAV component maps the free resource included in that final timetable to predefined service environments described in the resource catalog, and if the mapping has been successful, creates a list including all predefined service environments including their free time slots and costs. Finally, the OCAV component generates an offering for each of those SEs, assigns a price to each offering which is preferably calculated by certain business rules, and publishes it, preferably in a registry.

An improved approach for implementing metal fill on an electrical device without causing creating cross-coupling capacitance problems is disclosed. Timing aware metal fill insertion is performed to avoid or minimize cross-capacitance problems on the IC design. A cost may be assigned to different candidate metal fill shapes. The cost is associated with the expected effect upon timing requirements by the metal fill shape, with lower costs corresponding to lower expected impacts upon the timing requirements. To meet density requirements, lower cost metal fill shapes are inserted prior to higher cost metal fill shapes.

A method is provided for analyzing performance of a software application that is configured to contain a number of objects, wherein the application defines operations that include respective objects and relationships corresponding thereto. Performance costs are assigned to respective objects and to their corresponding relationships, and a total cost is computed for each of the operations from the assigned performance costs. Notice is provided when the cost of a particular operation exceeds a pre-specified performance threshold.

A system and method that allows for information relating to data and communication resource usage to be gathered and analyzed such that particular data transactions and usage can be classified based on purpose and / or type. Further, the system and method provide reporting based on amount of usage and / or purpose or type of usage so that associated costs and usage can be calculated applied and allocated to particular accounts, divisions, groups or individuals within and outside of a company or entity. Further, the system may restrict data usage of devices to data usage that can be allocated to particular accounts based on purpose, source, destination or other.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of power system optimal scheduling and particularly relates to a dynamic reconfiguration method for a multi-agent participation AC and DC hybrid distribution network. According to the method, with the consideration of the risk of a day-ahead prediction error, the optimization solution is carried out with a day-ahead dispatch cost minimum as a target function. In addition, after the completion of a transaction of a micro-grid alliance and a distribution network is completed, a self-based settlement strategy is used by a micro grid in the alliance, and a lower-cost renewable energy trading strategy is used preferentially to carry out cost distribution. A power distribution operator adopts a genetic algorithm to decide a distribution network reconfiguration plan in the next 24 hours based on an exchange power plan uploaded by multiple micro-grid alliances and power prediction values of other load points. According to the method, a day-ahead load value and a prediction error of a distributed power supply are fully considered, the fluctuation of scheduling cost is effectively reduced, and the method is very instructive for the scheduling of the AC and DC hybrid distribution network for the widespread access of the multiple micro grids to the power distribution network in the future.