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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2002
Anamarie E. Huerta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anoop Singhal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
James Louis Keesey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sri Raghupathy, San Jose, CA (US);
Narayanan Vijaykumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anamarie E. Huerta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anoop Singhal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
James Louis Keesey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sri Raghupathy, San Jose, CA (US);
Narayanan Vijaykumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vendavo, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for computing a price quote for a product using a contract. The method includes identifying the set of price rules for a plurality of products associated with the contract. Each price rule in the set of price rules is either a hard price rule or a soft price rule. Each hard price rule includes a price rule expression and a price rule type and each soft price rule comprises a price rule type. A collection of price rules is generated including, for each soft rule in the set of price rules, hard price rules that are associated with the product and that have the same price rule type as the soft price rule. Hard price rules that are associated with the contract are also added to the collection of price rules. A pricing scheme that is to be used in order to determine the price quote for the product is selected and used to resolve the hard price rules in the collection of price rules in order to determine the price quote.