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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2003
Alex X. Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Kemal Guler, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hsiu-khuern Tang, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alex X. Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Kemal Guler, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hsiu-Khuern Tang, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for extracting an implied value of a component associated with a plurality of product packages is disclosed. One embodiment of the method includes receiving data associated with a plurality of product packages. It is noted that the data comprises product package price data associated with the plurality of product packages. The data is processed utilizing a mathematical optimization to produce first output data. The first output data is processed with a statistical regression to produce second output data. The second output data includes an estimated value and its standard error of a component associated with the plurality of product packages.