Versata Development Group, Inc.

Trilogy Development Group, Inc.

John W Kamm

Cheryl W Scott

Daniel Paul Karipides

David John Reese

Matthew Alan Howitt

Gunter Leeb

Elizabeth M Schwartz

James H Ogden

Timothy Dowling

Jacob Levirne

A virtual salesperson system and method for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad can be used by the customer (as opposed to most applications which are for the dealer, or on a central kiosk) to provide the customer a tour of a showroom and each vehicle, highlighting key features and other content at the discretion of the OEM, such as videos tours conducted by their spokesperson. In at least one embodiment, the customer can also search inventory, potentially at this dealer and other 'friendly' dealerships with whom this dealer has a trading relationship. Other sales tools such as build and price, payment estimation, etc are available as well.

Virtual salesperson system and method

A validation engine validates product demand data using novel supply-demand imbalance data. Validating the product demand data provides confidence that the demand data is accurate. Confidence in the demand data allows manufacturers, distributors, and others involved in commerce to rely upon the demand data for product manufacture and ordering. The validation engine correlates determined product demand data with product supply data to generate 'imbalance data'. The product supply data represents data for the same time period as the time period of the product demand data. The imbalance data is, in one embodiment, a difference between the product supply data and the product demand data. In one embodiment, the validation engine generates the imbalance data by subtracting product demand data from the supply data associated with the same product. Negative imbalance data indicates undersupplied products, and positive imbalance data indicates oversupplied products.

Product demand data validation

A commerce router is disclosed. Such a commerce router includes a plurality of commercial transaction databases and an application server module. Each of the databases can contain commercial transaction information related to one of a number of offering types (e.g., categories of products, services and/or the like). Application server module is communicatively coupled to the each one of the databases. The application server module can be configured to receive a request by virtue of being configured to communicate information regarding the request to the database for inclusion in the commercial transaction information. The application server module can also be configured to allow review of the request by virtue of being configured to communicate information regarding the request from the database by accessing the commercial transaction information. Similarly, the application server module can be configured to receive a response by virtue of being configured to communicate information regarding the response to the database for inclusion in the commercial transaction information. The application server module can also be configured to allow review of the response by virtue of being configured to communicate information regarding the response from the database by accessing the commercial transaction information.

Commerce server architecture and method for using same

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John W Kamm