Conservation modeling engine framework

US9098820B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Gregory J. Boss · American Fork, US
• Alfred J. Brignull · South Burlington, US
• Michele P. Brignull · South Burlington, US
• Rick A. Hamilton, II · Charlottesville, US
• Ruthie D. Lyle · Durham, US
• Anne R. Sand · Colorado Springs, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 23, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 4, 2015
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06313
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices provide a conservation modeling engine framework. Programmable conservation modeling engines in communication with different customizable resource conservation modules, each resource conservation module customized to a distinct resource, select one of the modules customized to a resource identified for conservation, and user-defined criteria as a function of the identified resource and the selected module. Input data is selected and collected as a function of the resource identified and the selected module and used to weight the input data. Different optimized conservation plans are created as a function of the weighted input data and the selected module, each of the optimized conservation plans displayed having a different implementation cost, a different time for implementation and a different total amount of the identified resource saved.