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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Dean Boyd, Cottage Grove, OR (US);
Mike Gordon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jorgen Andersson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-hung Charles Tai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Feng Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anupama Kolamala, Mt. View, CA (US);
Greg Cook, Mt. View, CA (US);
Thomas Guardino, Eugene, OR (US);
Mudita Purang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prabhakar Krishnamurthy, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Mark Cooke, El Granada, CA (US);
Ravi Nandiwada, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Monteiro, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steve Haas, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dean Boyd, Cottage Grove, OR (US);
Mike Gordon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jorgen Andersson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-Hung Charles Tai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Feng Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anupama Kolamala, Mt. View, CA (US);
Greg Cook, Mt. View, CA (US);
Thomas Guardino, Eugene, OR (US);
Mudita Purang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prabhakar Krishnamurthy, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Mark Cooke, El Granada, CA (US);
Ravi Nandiwada, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Monteiro, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steve Haas, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Manugistics, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
A business process and computer system known as the 'Target Pricing System' (TPS) that generates an optimum bid or value for a competitively bid good or service. The system is resident on one or more host processors in connection with one or more data stores, and includes a product model that defines list values for the bid using stored price data and costs the values using stored cost data, a competitor net price model that calculates an equivalent competitor net price for the value, and