US 6,983,186 B2 | ||
Computer method and apparatus for vessel selection and optimization | ||
Girish Navani, Shrewsbury, Mass. (US); Barry H. Cohn, Sugar Land, Tex. (US); Michael P. Evans, Cambridge, Mass. (US); Donald A. Dietrich, Wenham, Mass. (US); Michael D. Allen, Houston, Tex. (US); Charles C. Moore, Hopkinton, Mass. (US); Linus Hakimattar, Southborough, Mass. (US); Stephen J. Doyle, Southborough, Mass. (US); Wayne C. Bartel, Houston, Tex. (US); Nigel Johnson, Duxbury, Mass. (US); Khaled Zayadine, Farnborough (United Kingdom); Ken Rosen, Andover, Mass. (US); and Vladimir Mahalec, Sudbury, Mass. (US) | ||
Assigned to Aspen Technology, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. (US) | ||
Filed on Sep. 07, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/949,163. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/230840, filed on Sep. 07, 2000. | ||
Prior Publication US 2002/0069210 A1, Jun. 06, 2002 | ||
Int. Cl. G06F 19/00 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 700—95 | 13 Claims |
1. In a computer system, providing a non-client computer resident method for optimizing vessel scheduling in a vessel scheduling
application program, comprising the steps of:
aggregating vessel information, at least some of the vessel information being automatically downloaded from an electronic
source;
storing the aggregated vessel information in a vessel information database comprising vessel information database records;
in response to a certain operation in a deal negotiation application program enabling commodity trading with a third party,
downloading information about a potential vessel contracting transaction from a user-selected trade deal in the deal negotiation
application program;
searching the vessel information database in a real-time manner to match the potential vessel contracting transaction to at
least one of the vessel information database records such that the vessel contracting transaction is optimized; and
reporting at least one of the optimized vessel contracting transactions.
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