Patent Document ID: 20030065542
Application ID: 10042624
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A yield management method for optimising a yield parameter resulting from assigning a capacity offered by a future instance of a service to each one of a plurality of different categories of requests competing for the capacity, the capacity being defined by at least one capacity variable, the method including the steps of: storing a set of historical profiles for each one of a plurality of previous instances of the service, the set including a historical profile of an historical value of each capacity variable reserved by each category, assigning a probability to each previous instance of the service, estimating a potential profile of a potential value of the capacity variable from each historical profile according to a corresponding current value of the capacity variable reserved by the category for the future instance of the service and according to a corresponding unconstrained demand of the capacity variable for the category in the previous instance of the service, defining a historical scenario for each previous instance of the service, the historical scenario including a final potential capacity variable from each corresponding potential profile, and determining an authorisation to allocate the offered capacity for each capacity variable of each category in the future instance of the service by applying a stochastic model to the historical scenarios according to the corresponding probabilities.