US 10,832,358 B2Granted

Disposition manager for resource recovery

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsMichael E. Gildein, II, Vijai Kalathur, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Christine D. Mikijanic, Moses J. Vaughan

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Abstract

A disposition manager configured to identify a damaged component of a damaged assembly by determining a measured first property value of a set of measured property values associated with the damaged component and obtained by a sensor is not within a range of acceptable first property values according to a specification of the damaged component. The disposition manager further configured to estimate a performance characteristic of the damaged component and a salvage value of the damaged component. The disposition manager further configured to present, to a user interface, the performance characteristic and the salvage value for the damaged component.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

identifying a damaged battery of a cell phone by determining that dimensional data associated with the damaged battery measured by a coordinate measuring machine is not within a range of acceptable dimensions according to a specification of the damaged battery;
estimating a performance characteristic of the damaged battery based on dividing a measured battery life of the damaged battery by a nominal battery life listed in the specification of the damaged battery;
estimating a salvage value of the damaged battery based on the performance characteristic of the damaged battery;
presenting, to a user interface, the performance characteristic of the damaged battery and the salvage value of the damaged battery;
determining that a cell phone cover of the cell phone is damaged;
determining a salvage value of the cell phone cover;
and
presenting, to the user interface, the salvage value of the cell phone cover.

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A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

identifying a damaged battery of a cell phone by determining that dimensional data associated with the damaged battery measured by a coordinate measuring machine is not within a range of acceptable dimensions according to a specification of the damaged battery, wherein the specification comprises a computer-aided design model of a corresponding battery;
estimating a performance characteristic of the damaged battery based on dividing a measured battery life of the damaged battery by a nominal battery life listed in the specification of the damaged battery;
estimating a salvage value of the damaged battery based on the performance characteristic of the damaged battery;
presenting, to a user interface, the performance characteristic of the damaged battery and the salvage value of the damaged battery;
selecting a cell phone cover of the cell phone;
determining that the cell phone cover is damaged;
determining, based on a computer-aided design model of a corresponding cell phone cover, a volume of the cell phone cover;
generating, based in part on the volume, a salvage value of the cell phone cover;
and
presenting, to the user interface, the salvage value of the cell phone cover.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.