- Patent Title: Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for reducing computation time in one-to-many path searching using heuristics and limited boundary adjustment
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Application No.: US14991557Application Date: 2016-01-08
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Publication No.: US10740702B2Publication Date: 2020-08-11
- Inventor: Charles Pieter van't Westeinde
- Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
- Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Agency: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06Q10/10
- IPC: G06Q10/10 ; G06Q10/06 ; G06Q50/30 ; G06Q10/04

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for scheduling jobs by using a one-to-many shortest path search based on travel costs between job locations. In some examples, a system includes one or more computers configured to schedule jobs based on travel from a geographic origin to a respective geographic job location for each job. The system also includes a one-to-many path searcher implemented on the one or more computers. The one-to-many path searcher searches for paths along edges of a graph from an origin node to destination nodes by traversing intermediate nodes between the origin node and the destination nodes using travel costs, including determining heuristic travel costs based on a geographic distance between an intermediate geographic location corresponding to the intermediate node and a boundary that initially surrounds the geographic job locations.
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