Patent Document ID: 20080120251
Application ID: 11691618
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of operating a computer system, the method comprising: storing, in the computer system, a database containing performance measure data regarding performance measures of a plurality of items; inputting into the computer system a plurality of performance measure constraints; modeling the performance measure constraints with a set of equations, said equations including a plurality of variables, each of said variables corresponding to a respective one of said items, each of said variables to be assigned a value from a group of values, said group of values including at least two values, one of said two values indicative of a recommendation to take an action with respect to a one of said items that corresponds to a respective one of said variables, another of said two values indicative of a recommendation to take another action with respect to said one of said items; and using the computer system to solve the set of equations to generate one or more solutions that satisfy said performance measure constraints.